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Visual Effects for the Indian Blockbuster “RRR” made entirely in Blender
posted on Sat Sep 10 13:30:05 UTC 2022 by rrampage | view on HN
Makuta Visual Effects is an Indian visual effects and animation company based in Hyderabad, India that migrated the majority of their pipeline to Blender in 2019.
Cognitive ability is related to supporting freedom of speech (2020)
posted on Sat Sep 10 16:02:39 UTC 2022 by gmays | view on HN
Tipi is a personal homeserver for everyone
posted on Fri Sep 09 04:35:37 UTC 2022 by thunderbong | view on HN
Tipi is a personal homeserver orchestrator that runs docker containers under the hood and provides a simple web interface to manage them.
posted on Sat Sep 10 14:22:05 UTC 2022 by Tomte | view on HN
The article discusses a child's experience with Reading Day, a day where children are given a test to see if they are eligible to go to an Outworld, and the child's fear that he will disappoint his father if he does not do well.
posted on Fri Sep 09 03:54:20 UTC 2022 by egfx | view on HN
Flanderization is the process of a character's essential traits being exaggerated over the course of a serial work.
Transcending Posix: The End of an Era?
posted on Sat Sep 10 09:44:00 UTC 2022 by jsnell | view on HN
POSIX's abstractions are based on the OS abstractions of the different Unix variants in development between the 1970s and 1980s, such as Research Unix, System V, BSD, SunOS, and others.
ContainerSSH: Launch containers on demand
posted on Sat Sep 10 08:17:01 UTC 2022 by gaocegege | view on HN
This article is about a server that allows users to access containers through SSH.
posted on Sat Sep 10 12:48:47 UTC 2022 by troydavis | view on HN
Bouncer is a simple SMS and MMS filtering app that moves unwanted messages to the "Junk", "Promotion" and "Transaction" sections of the Messages app.
6.851: Advanced Data Structures (2021)
posted on Sat Sep 10 11:44:59 UTC 2022 by polygamous_bat | view on HN
The article discusses retroactive data structures, which are data structures that allow updates to be performed at any time, and introduces the cell probe model, a model of computation where the cost of a computation is measured by the total number of memory accesses to a random access memory with log bits cell size.
Infinite Scrolling: When to Use It, When to Avoid It
posted on Sat Sep 10 11:19:02 UTC 2022 by favourable | view on HN
The article discusses the benefits and limitations of infinite scrolling.
CS 168: The Modern Algorithmic Toolbox
posted on Sat Sep 10 06:54:36 UTC 2022 by samuel246 | view on HN
The article discusses how to avoid getting caught when cheating on online exams. The article discusses how to avoid getting caught when cheating on online exams by using a virtual private network and a screen recorder.
Show HN: 1paragraph – a browser-based, offline-first ePub reader
posted on Sat Sep 10 10:35:07 UTC 2022 by amadeuspagel | view on HN
Navigating Today’s Supply Chain Challenges
posted on Fri Sep 09 03:14:28 UTC 2022 by bcantrill | view on HN
The article discusses the difficulties that the procurement team of a startup faced in securing supply for a product that was constantly undergoing design changes and how they eventually found success through strategic supplier relationships.
Android 13 requires devices to have more than 2GB RAM and 16GB storage
posted on Sat Sep 10 02:39:00 UTC 2022 by teleforce | view on HN
The article discusses recent updates to phones powered by Android (Go edition), including performance optimizations and features designed specifically for new & novice internet users, like translation, app switching, and data saving.
Why we write elementary apps in Vala (2014)
posted on Sat Sep 10 02:49:23 UTC 2022 by auraham | view on HN
The article discusses the reasons why the developers of elementary OS chose to use the Vala programming language instead of a more mainstream language.
The technology that changed air travel (2018)
posted on Fri Sep 09 10:05:33 UTC 2022 by ibobev | view on HN
The article discusses how the software that manages air travel has changed since it went mainstream in the 1930s.
Causality Is an Underrated Concept
posted on Fri Sep 09 14:46:15 UTC 2022 by astonfred | view on HN
iPhone 14 Pro comes with dual-frequency GPS
posted on Sat Sep 10 13:34:41 UTC 2022 by tosh | view on HN
The article discusses the different varieties of English spoken in different parts of the world.
The Death of Personality (2017)
posted on Fri Sep 09 10:05:50 UTC 2022 by popcalc | view on HN
The article discusses how the author believes that Apple's iOS 7 update, which was called revolutionary and seen as a 'new age' of design, was a big mistake that has led to a large movement of designers thinking that skeuomorphic design is garbage and flat design is the future.
Ask HN: Which books do you consider real gems in your field of work/study?
posted on Sat Sep 10 12:35:03 UTC 2022 by curious16 | view on HN
posted on Sat Sep 10 03:36:10 UTC 2022 by brudgers | view on HN
Roy Harper is a singer-songwriter of the 60s who is known for his intensity, mistrust of authority, and belief in individual freedom.
The Collectors Who Save Video-Game History from Oblivion
posted on Thu Sep 08 22:47:44 UTC 2022 by zdw | view on HN
Michelle Flitman, a recent art-school graduate who lives in a suburb of Chicago, grew up in a home full of video games that her dad, Mark, a game producer and designer, brought home from work. When she tried to interest YouTube hosts and Web-site owners in the relics she grew up with, she realized that historians care about this stuff and decided to post photos of her dad’s collection on a subreddit devoted to game collecting. The thread quickly filled up
A serverless architecture for high performance financial modelling
posted on Fri Sep 09 15:22:07 UTC 2022 by kiyanwang | view on HN
RenaissanceRe is a reinsurance company that uses Monte-Carlo based risk models to compute the market exposure across all deals in the portfolio, which is a graph that comprises over 7,000 deals with a complex dependency relationship between deals. The company has moved to a serverless architecture in order to increase compute resources and business agility.
On my resignation as regulator of the Dutch intelligence and security services
posted on Sat Sep 10 03:55:07 UTC 2022 by pabs3 | view on HN
The article is about the Dutch intelligence and security services and how they are changing the law to make it easier for them to get away with things.
‘That was our beach’: Notes on Fred Conrad’s Iconic 1977 Photograph
posted on Fri Sep 09 15:25:10 UTC 2022 by anarbadalov | view on HN
The article discusses the history of the World Trade Center and the iconic 1977 photograph of a couple lying on a bedsheet on the beach near the WTC.
Ashby hiring engineers who want to make product decisions and/or design
posted on Sat Sep 10 07:01:14 UTC 2022 by abhikp | view on HN
Ask HN: Best empirical papers on software development?
posted on Sat Sep 10 10:59:09 UTC 2022 by KingOfCoders | view on HN
posted on Fri Sep 09 11:26:46 UTC 2022 by karimmaassen | view on HN
The article discusses the Critical CSS pattern, and how it is not as straightforward as many developers expect. It is only worth doing if CSS is your biggest blocker, and it can be done trivially or from the outset. Retrofitting Critical CSS is difficult and error prone, and it is all too easy to (re)introduce render-blocking regressions. Current methods can be no better than just leaving your CSS as-is.
A good memory or a bad one? One brain molecule decides
posted on Thu Sep 08 10:42:36 UTC 2022 by rbanffy | view on HN
The article is discussing a study that found that the thalamic neurons produce a lot of neurotensin and poke their long axons into the amygdala, which promotes reward learning.
Bank tells customers to disable updates and not upgrade to iOS 16
posted on Sat Sep 10 13:24:15 UTC 2022 by pbowyer | view on HN
The article explains how to register for a password to access the new Coutts app.