June 6th, 2024 | Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico
Jun 7, 2024
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Topics discussed in the podcast include SpaceX's Super Heavy splashdown, creating a game engine with Vulkan, a tiling window manager for macOS, Roman Roads, cathedral alignments, AI profiling rights, lsix for images, Qwen2 LLM release, and Don Estridge's role in building the IBM PC.
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SpaceX's Super Heavy successfully splashes down in the Gulf of Mexico, a significant achievement in space exploration.
Aerospace, a macOS tiling window manager, prioritizes spatial control and keyboard-centric navigation for efficient workspace management.
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SpaceX's Super Heavy Splashdown in Gulf of Mexico
SpaceX's Super Heavy successfully splashes down in the Gulf of Mexico, marking a significant moment. The post indicates users on an unspecified platform, X, receive such groundbreaking news firsthand. Comments cover the scale and speed of SpaceX's Starship, live versus streamed launches experiences, and personal anecdotes from users about space technology's historical significance and emotional impact.
Self-Taught Programmer's Vulkan Game Engine Journey
A self-taught programmer's detailed journey from OpenGL to mastering Vulkan to create a small engine and demo games in three months. The process involved choosing Vulkan for control and cross-platform standards, addressing synchronization and memory allocation complexities, culminating in the creation of a Vulkan-based engine, EDBR, shared on GitHub. Comments discuss challenges in implementing a Metaverse client using Vulkan, WGPU, and OpenGL, highlighting memory management, synchronization, and GPU thread updating complexities.
Aerospace Window Manager for macOS Users
Aerospace emerges as a tiling window manager like i3 tailored for macOS users, emphasizing spatial management and keyboard-centric control. Offerings include manual tiling, multi-monitor support without SIP disablement needs, and virtual workspaces emulation. Comments compare Aerospace with other window management tools for macOS, focusing on functionalities, usability, and limitations, with discussions on arranging windows, tiling capabilities, and system integrity protection compatibility.
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on June 6th, 2024.
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(00:34): Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40596883&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:50): I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40595741&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:38): AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40596689&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(05:21): Roman Roads (2017) Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40597216&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:23): Saint Michael Sword: Are the cathedrals really on a straight line? Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40595499&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:53): Extracting concepts from GPT-4 Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40599749&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:36): The right not to be subjected to AI profiling based on publicly available data Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40597503&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:42): lsix: Like "ls", but for images Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40598629&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(14:24): Qwen2 LLM Released Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40599018&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(16:26): Don Estridge: A misfit who built the IBM PC Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40595920&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
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