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Re:Shapefit: Turn irregular shape masks into clean polygons on Sunday October 11, 2026 @05:44PM (#50048135)
I've encountered this problem many times and tried to solve it with different computer vision and algebra methods. Since it's easy to generate clean polygons and augment them a NN can be trained to undo it.

Show HN: Speed Miners – A tiny RTS resource mini-game

Posted by nickponline on Saturday January 17, 2026 @04:40PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://speedminers.fun/

I've always loved RTS games and wanted to make a game similar for a long time. I thought I'd just try and build a mini / puzzle game around the resource gathering aspects of an RTS.Objective: You have a base at the center and you need to mine and "refine" all of the resources on the map in as short a time as possible.By default, the game will play automatically, but not optimally (moving and...

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Re:enclose.horse on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @11:51AM (#46514785)
Ah yes quite right.
Re:enclose.horse on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @11:09AM (#46514160)
I think this problem is called the maximum-weight closure and can be solved as max flow. You want to find a cut between source (horse) so they were no out-going edges not in the cut (escape routes).
Re:The GJK Algorithm: A weird and beautiful way to do a simple thing on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @07:12PM (#40664205)
I did a blog post of something related with Minkowski geometry: https://nickp.svbtle.com/asteroid-intersections
Re:SR-71 Blackbird Astro-Nav System (a.k.a. R2-D2) worked by tracking ... on Monday September 25, 2023 @07:48PM (#37652382)
I did a toy implementation of a star camera: https://nickp.svbtle.com/star-cameras
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here? on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @01:01PM (#36589395)
https://nickp.svbtle.com/

I try to deconstruct and solve interesting coding problems usually from programming competitions.

Re:The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Conditional Probabilities on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @03:23PM (#34902072)
I wrote a blog about the general case https://nickp.svbtle.com/general-collectors-problem
Re:Ask HN: Great Blogs by Programmers on Monday February 07, 2022 @01:17PM (#30248784)
Shameless plug on my blog on solving and visualizing problems: https://nickp.svbtle.com/
Re:Primel – guess a 5 digit prime number – each guess must be a prime on Friday January 21, 2022 @01:28PM (#30027835)
My first inclination was to write a solver :)

https://gist.github.com/nickponline/9a3fb1ee5333c52ed195625e...

Re:Primel: The “fun” “game” where you guess a 5 digit prime number. on Friday January 21, 2022 @01:27PM (#30027821)
https://gist.github.com/nickponline/9a3fb1ee5333c52ed195625e...
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2021) on Monday November 01, 2021 @01:05PM (#29069618)
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Re:Poisson's Equation on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @06:24PM (#27755159)
Maybe you'll like these: https://nickp.svbtle.com/ (shameless plug)
Re:Mathematics for Programmers [pdf] on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @11:56PM (#24575098)
I would also recommend Concrete Mathematics by Donald Knuth, Oren Patashnik, and Ronald Graham as another refreshing approach.
Re:Atlas: End-to-End 3D Scene Reconstruction from Posed Images on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @02:00PM (#24134864)
Is there anything that would prevent this approach working on 360 video?
Re:Time of maximum intersection of two moving polygons on Thursday July 02, 2020 @01:42PM (#23715868)
Thanks for the kind words. I was actually looking for a better blogging platform as things weren't really discoverable on svbtle and then kind of forgot about it. But I've resumed it this year.
Re:Computing furthest point from vertex in a polygon on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @08:00PM (#23708331)
I'd be really interested to know if this can be computed directly any other way?
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2016) on Monday August 01, 2016 @04:28PM (#12205638)
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