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Radiant Foam: Real-Time Differentiable Ray Tracing

radfoam.github.io

Your browser does not support the video tag. Abstract Research on differentiable scene representations is consistently...
Your browser does not support the video tag. Abstract Research on differentiable scene representations is consistently moving towards more efficient, real-time models. Recently, this has led to the popularization of splatting methods, which eschew the traditional ray-based rendering of radiance fields in favor of ra...

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Bouncing Beholder, my winning JS1K entry (2012)

marijnhaverbeke.nl

My winning JS1K entry---a JavaScript platform game that fits in 1024 bytes. I gave a talk...
My winning JS1K entry---a JavaScript platform game that fits in 1024 bytes. I gave a talk on this at the November Berlin JS user group. Slides here. Though they might be hard to follow without commentary. (See here for my old, space-defense game entry.) Use the arrow keys to move and jump. Collect as many coins as y...
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A Linux maintainer admitting to attempting to sabotage Rust for Linux project

treehouse.systems
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Windows 11 – There's still nothing worth my time

dedoimedo.com

Windows 11 - There's still nothing worth my time Updated: January 15, 2025 Dedoimedo here, reporting...
Windows 11 - There's still nothing worth my time Updated: January 15, 2025 Dedoimedo here, reporting for my periodic dose of masochism. Every few months, I power on my test laptop, which has Windows 11 installed on it (in a dual-boot setup), and I check whether anything has cardinally changed in this system. My late...
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Why employees smuggle AI into work

bbc.com

Sean McManusTechnology ReporterGetty ImagesMany staff are said to be using unapproved AI at work"It's easier to...
Sean McManusTechnology ReporterGetty ImagesMany staff are said to be using unapproved AI at work"It's easier to get forgiveness than permission," says John, a software engineer at a financial services technology company. "Just get on with it. And if you get in trouble later, then clear it up."He's one of the many pe...
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Please help me find better blogs to read

ycombinator.com
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Apple Scraps Work on Mac-Connected Augmented Reality Glasses

bloomberg.com

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Dolní Vĕstonice Portrait Head: The oldest known human portrait in the world

livescience.com

A portrait of a Stone Age woman carved out of ivory (Image credit: Alamy) Name: Dolní...
A portrait of a Stone Age woman carved out of ivory (Image credit: Alamy) Name: Dolní Vĕstonice Portrait HeadWhat it is: A face carved out of mammoth ivoryWhere it is from: The South Moravian region of the Czech RepublicWhen it was made: About 24000 B.C.Related: Bayeux Tapestry: A 1,000-year-old embroidery depicting...
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OpenAI announces SoftBank partnership as fallout from DeepSeek continues

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Microsoft Is Dead (2007)

paulgraham.com
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VSCode Marketplace Web Pages No Longer Allow Direct VSIX Downloads

github.com
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The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad: Science and Sacrifice in a City Under Siege

lrb.co.uk

At a canteen in Leningrad in December 1941, a man queued for two hours, handed over...
At a canteen in Leningrad in December 1941, a man queued for two hours, handed over his ration card, received a bowl of soup and a bowl of porridge, ate the soup and died. A crowd formed around him, not out of concern but in the hope of acquiring extra food. Leningrad under siege was a pitiless place. Two in five p...

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Nango (Product Integrations Platform) Is Hiring a Senior Full-Stack Engineer

nango.dev
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Aliens from a Parallel Universe May Be All Around Us–and We Don't Even Know It

popularmechanics.com

Published in 1962 by American astronomer Frank Drake, Ph.D., the eponymous Drake equation sought to estimate...
Published in 1962 by American astronomer Frank Drake, Ph.D., the eponymous Drake equation sought to estimate the number of detectable alien civilizations in the Milky Way galaxy. This equation takes into account the average rate of star formation in the galaxy, the fraction of those stars that have orbiting planets,...

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Bioaccumulation of microplastics in decedent human brains

nature.com
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The Final Frontier with Steve Jurvetson

substack.com

Step through a nondescript Los Altos storefront and into a world of space. Try, if you...
Step through a nondescript Los Altos storefront and into a world of space. Try, if you can, to focus your eyes on a single object. Every available surface, from wall to window-wall, is covered in a jungle of space artifacts. Rocket engines fill corners, meteorites adorn conference tables, and moon maps plaster the b...
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Popular Linux orgs Freedesktop and Alpine Linux are scrambling for new webhost

arstechnica.com
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I Use Cline for AI Engineering

substack.com

The AI coding assistant landscape is saturated with tools that promise to revolutionize development workflows. As...
The AI coding assistant landscape is saturated with tools that promise to revolutionize development workflows. As an engineer who has worked with complex systems for decades, I approach such claims with healthy skepticism. After extensively testing the major players (Cursor, WindSurf, GitHub Copilot, and others), I'...
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Nvidia open-source nanite: continuous level of detail (LOD) mesh library

github.com
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Backblaze seemingly does not support files greater than 1 TB

wadetregaskis.com
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New Outlook's security issues: Businesses should avoid switching

tuta.com
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AMD adds RF-sampling data converters to Versal adaptive SoCs

electronicsweekly.com

AMD is to add integrated direct RF-sampling data converters to its Versal adaptive SoCs. Versal RF...
AMD is to add integrated direct RF-sampling data converters to its Versal adaptive SoCs. Versal RF Series development tools are available now. Silicon samples and evaluation kits are expected to be available in Q4 2025, with production shipments expected to begin in the first half of 2027. Versal RF Series offers pr...
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Platform for supporting local sellers and buyers

blunum.com

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From Table Layouts to Tailwind: The Evolution of Front-End Styling (1995–2025)

gmfoster.com

In the rapidly changing world of front-end development, few areas have evolved as dramatically as CSS...
In the rapidly changing world of front-end development, few areas have evolved as dramatically as CSS and web styling. Today’s engineers can choose from classic CSS, preprocessors, utility-first libraries, CSS-in-JS, and more – a dizzying array of options. How did we get here? I sometimes feel lost among the years o...
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