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Re:I still teach OpenGL ES 3.0 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @10:41AM (#50260131)
NeHe's tuts are still online:

https://nehe.gamedev.net/

Talk about nostalgia!

Re:I still teach OpenGL ES 3.0 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @05:27AM (#50256509)
On a related note, I'd like to give a shout-out to NeHe (Neon Helium) for his brilliant OpenGL tutorials back in the 90s.

I, and I suspect many others, benefited immensely from him lessons.

Re:Anthropic S-1 on Monday October 26, 2026 @01:28PM (#50247548)
I'm sure there are others here that are experts on this topic, but my 2 cents on this is that Broadcom specialise in custom / specialised AI chips, and their collaboration with Google to manufacture the TPUs is a pretty solid revenue moat over the next several years.
Re:Two Million Hornets on Monday October 26, 2026 @07:31AM (#50242024)
> In the last eight weeks, I have counted 361 queens. The meagre three traps might sound irrelevant in the face of the growing continental scale of the problem, and perhaps they are. However, a mature hornet nest in autumn can have 6,000 individuals, so potentially over two million fewer hornets will be patrolling our local landscape come autumn.

In case anyone is wondering about the number.

What an odd post to make the front page of HN.

Re:Xbox Turns Down Netflix $500M Offer on Sunday October 25, 2026 @01:27AM (#50228599)
This needs to be the top comment because the current title is horribly misleading.
> What does “take full responsibility” mean in the present context?

Aside from Pete's reply (see adjacent comment), I'd add that him taking full responsibility is also his way of saying his post was nobody else's fault but his.

In other words it's less about forfeiting assets and descendant peonage, and more about saying "the buck stops with me".

At least that's my read of his sentiment. Pete can expand if need be.

Re:Claude Duet on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @03:28PM (#50186245)
Whilst I appreciate the impact of AI and its long-term implications for humanity as we know it, I am getting kinda tired of seeing so many AI-related headlines here on HN. Perhaps it's just me, but I feel like every day the front page is filled with mostly LLM-related announcements.
> so that we can't scrap Facebook

Whilst I assume you meant to say “scrape”, I can’t help but appreciate the poetry of that typo.

Re:Tesla Roadster on Saturday October 17, 2026 @07:46AM (#50130221)
Queen face hoover
Re:How Tabasco Became the World's Hot Sauce on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @12:51PM (#50090769)
TIL! Absolute game changer.

Thank you kind stranger.

Re:Now That Information Is Free, What's a College Campus For? on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @11:47AM (#50073600)
What I would humbly argue is what it’s (primarily) always been about:

Building relationships.

That site is awesome, thank you!
> we use the apparent rate of mug deterioration to estimate the proton supply required by a simplified corrosion model

Damn I love HN.

Re:Verda (Finland) raises $189M in Series B on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @08:24AM (#49800091)
Sincere congrats to the Verda team :-)

Can someone please help me understand what their competitive advantage is, versus the likes of AWS / Azure et al, who are also available in the EU.

I love a good underdog story, but I'm not understanding the economics of it.

Re:Ask HN: Diablo 4 on Ubuntu? on Sunday September 20, 2026 @04:01PM (#49779481)
Fair point.

I'm on vanilla Ubuntu 22.04 but have also tried vanilla 24.04, with an Nvidia card.

That said, I thought steamdeck was just the handheld device - not sure if this would help with my Ubuntu situation - but I don't know enough about steamdeck so perhaps I am misinterpreting your comment.

Thanks either way.

Re:Ask HN: Diablo 4 on Ubuntu? on Sunday September 20, 2026 @02:21PM (#49778450)
Albion Online looks interesting, thanks, will check it out.

Ask HN: Diablo 4 on Ubuntu?

Has anyone here got it to reliably work? Please let me know how?So many different guides / tutorials online, but sadly every one I try comes up short in some way.I really don’t want to have to dual boot Windows.Kinda hoping there’s an HNer that figured out.Thanks.

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Re:Brood War Bench on Sunday September 20, 2026 @09:16AM (#49775553)
It was the late 90s, my very first day at a new school, I was asked to introduce myself at the front of the class, I mentioned I like computers, one guy at the back of the class blurts out “En Taro Adun” and without skipping a beat I replied “J’tokoh zohl”, and we instantly became best friends.
Re:Ask HN: How can I browse HN in dark mode? on Saturday September 19, 2026 @01:54PM (#49768700)
Thanks once again. You’ve totally improved my night time HN routine. My little one is asleep next to me as I type this :-)
Made me think of “Brainscan”, awesome sci-fi from the 90s.
Re:Ask HN: How can I browse HN in dark mode? on Sunday September 13, 2026 @01:47PM (#49686563)
thanks!
Re:GPT-6 Astra on robot arms on Sunday September 06, 2026 @01:44AM (#49583671)
I don't know much about robotics engineering, so I just wanted to give kudos to the Robocurve team on this write-up.

Even for an absolute robotics newbie such as myself, the article was interesting to read, and easy to understand. Plus it was straight to the point, with no unnecessary waffle.

Just a pleasure all round. Well done Robocurve.

Re:Culture Clash on Monday August 31, 2026 @11:57AM (#49511273)
> He sees these scientists as strong men, willing to wrestle with the tragedy of existence by increasing the amount of happiness in the world. That struggle makes them optimists.

Loved that.

If you get a paywall, use this:

https://shorturl.at/1FR6H

Re:How Golden Is Silence, Actually? on Sunday August 09, 2026 @04:07PM (#49235253)
Article is behind a paywall for me.

Odd that it’s on HN front page :-/

Re:Quake – 30th Anniversary Update on Sunday August 09, 2026 @04:05PM (#49235237)
My OCed DX4 got around 15fps, but I agree my memory of what was deemed “playable” back then probably wouldn’t stand today.

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