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571.

Zink (OpenGL over Vulkan) allocator improves performance in 1000% in some games (cgit.freedesktop.org)

220 points by marcodiego on Aug 17, 2021 | 65 comments

572.

Ray Tracing Gems II available as free download (developer.nvidia.com)

220 points by dagmx on Aug 4, 2021 | 31 comments

573.

Don’t Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You (2001) (joelonsoftware.com)

219 points by tekkertje on Aug 30, 2021 | 148 comments

574.

Why Doesn't Software Show Up in Productivity? (austinvernon.eth.link)

218 points by Wildgoose on Aug 16, 2021 | 207 comments

575.

Loss of animals’ shared knowledge threatens their survival (theguardian.com)

218 points by NotSwift on Aug 13, 2021 | 50 comments

576.

HyperPhysics (2016) (hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu)

218 points by prpl on Aug 24, 2021 | 44 comments

577.

WHO inquiry chief 'had concerns' about lab close to first Covid cases (apnews.com)

217 points by belter on Aug 13, 2021 | 198 comments

578.

NP Complete 3rd Grade Math Problems (2018) (leosstemhacks.wordpress.com)

217 points by rfw300 on Aug 29, 2021 | 182 comments

579.

Something is killing gray whales (latimes.com)

217 points by prostoalex on Aug 16, 2021 | 136 comments

580.

Evolution of Search Engines Architecture – Algolia Search Architecture Part 1 (highscalability.com)

217 points by PretzelFisch on Aug 8, 2021 | 67 comments

581.

Japan is holding back as the world rushes toward electric cars (nytimes.com)

216 points by bamboozled on Aug 22, 2021 | 346 comments

582.

IPv4 vs. IPv6 FAQ (tailscale.com)

216 points by mjs on Aug 27, 2021 | 219 comments

583.

US real estate a safe haven for billions in dirty money, report says (icij.org)

216 points by warrenm on Aug 12, 2021 | 168 comments

584.

A CSS framework to recreate Windows 7 GUI (github.com)

216 points by khangnd on Aug 29, 2021 | 124 comments

585.

Turing Pi V2 is here (turingpi.com)

216 points by rbanffy on Aug 25, 2021 | 92 comments

586.

Wgpu-0.10 released: WebGPU implementation now in pure Rust (gfx-rs.github.io)

216 points by kvark on Aug 18, 2021 | 83 comments

587.

Time to retire the CSV? (bitsondisk.com)

215 points by asicsp on Aug 18, 2021 | 567 comments

588.

The dream of carbon air capture edges toward reality (e360.yale.edu)

215 points by elsewhen on Aug 26, 2021 | 290 comments

589.

Fighting Like Taliban (scholars-stage.org)

215 points by robertwiblin on Aug 23, 2021 | 227 comments

590.

Affinity 1.10 (affinity.serif.com)

215 points by codeptualize on Aug 5, 2021 | 132 comments

591.

Software Development Waste (neverworkintheory.org)

215 points by pabs3 on Aug 30, 2021 | 127 comments

592.

To remember everything you learn, surrender to this algorithm (2008) (wired.com)

215 points by sanmak on Aug 16, 2021 | 110 comments

593.

Why is learning functional programming so damned hard? (2019) (cscalfani.medium.com)

214 points by allenleein on Aug 15, 2021 | 383 comments

594.

A Dyson sphere around a black hole (arxiv.org)

214 points by SkyMarshal on Aug 19, 2021 | 231 comments

595.

Software Dev Can't Be Automated – It’s a Creative Process with an Unknown Goal (thehosk.medium.com)

214 points by thunderbong on Aug 14, 2021 | 195 comments

596.

Personal Computing on an Amiga in 2021 (thedorkweb.substack.com)

214 points by shortformblog on Aug 5, 2021 | 138 comments

597.

Build your own NeXT with a virtual machine (learn.adafruit.com)

214 points by marcodiego on Aug 9, 2021 | 128 comments

598.

How do I turn off the “Try the new Safari” notification? (discussions.apple.com)

214 points by root_axis on Aug 30, 2021 | 127 comments

599.

‘Likes’ and ‘shares’ teach people to express more outrage online: study (news.yale.edu)

214 points by hhs on Aug 13, 2021 | 90 comments

600.

Project includes a dependancy that has a license that forbids its use (github.com)

213 points by withinboredom on Aug 22, 2021 | 234 comments