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nate-parrott / ball

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by 3-hour interval7 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2024-06-25 00:57:18 UTC to 2024-06-26 20:02:03 UTC.

0122024-06-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-06-25 03:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsJun 25, 00:002024-06-25 03:00:00 UTC to 2024-06-25 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-06-25 06:00:00 UTC to 2024-06-25 09:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-06-25 09:00:00 UTC to 2024-06-25 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-06-25 12:00:00 UTC to 2024-06-25 15:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-06-25 15:00:00 UTC to 2024-06-25 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-06-25 18:00:00 UTC to 2024-06-25 21:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2024-06-25 21:00:00 UTC to 2024-06-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsJun 25, 21:002024-06-26 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-06-26 03:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-06-26 03:00:00 UTC to 2024-06-26 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-06-26 06:00:00 UTC to 2024-06-26 09:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-06-26 09:00:00 UTC to 2024-06-26 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-06-26 12:00:00 UTC to 2024-06-26 15:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2024-06-26 15:00:00 UTC to 2024-06-26 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-06-26 18:00:00 UTC to 2024-06-26 21:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJun 26, 18:00

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Jun 25, 00:002024-06-25 00:00:00 UTC2024-06-25 03:00:00 UTC110
Jun 25, 03:002024-06-25 03:00:00 UTC2024-06-25 06:00:00 UTC000
Jun 25, 06:002024-06-25 06:00:00 UTC2024-06-25 09:00:00 UTC000
Jun 25, 09:002024-06-25 09:00:00 UTC2024-06-25 12:00:00 UTC000
Jun 25, 12:002024-06-25 12:00:00 UTC2024-06-25 15:00:00 UTC000
Jun 25, 15:002024-06-25 15:00:00 UTC2024-06-25 18:00:00 UTC000
Jun 25, 18:002024-06-25 18:00:00 UTC2024-06-25 21:00:00 UTC110
Jun 25, 21:002024-06-25 21:00:00 UTC2024-06-26 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 26, 00:002024-06-26 00:00:00 UTC2024-06-26 03:00:00 UTC000
Jun 26, 03:002024-06-26 03:00:00 UTC2024-06-26 06:00:00 UTC000
Jun 26, 06:002024-06-26 06:00:00 UTC2024-06-26 09:00:00 UTC101
Jun 26, 09:002024-06-26 09:00:00 UTC2024-06-26 12:00:00 UTC101
Jun 26, 12:002024-06-26 12:00:00 UTC2024-06-26 15:00:00 UTC202
Jun 26, 15:002024-06-26 15:00:00 UTC2024-06-26 18:00:00 UTC000
Jun 26, 18:002024-06-26 18:00:00 UTC2024-06-26 21:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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My team can't even evaluate Ball (as a tool for physical simulation of spherical cow-like objects): https://github.com/nate-parrott/ball/issues/9 Currently, we are using Unreal Engine 5 to do our hundreds of architectural physics simulations - the major issue is that UE5 is very slow on *the EC2 instance* (we only have one 2048 core EC2 instance shared between the entire office; we used to use Vercel and Cloudflare but we had to sell our homes to suddenly subscribe to Cloudflare Enterprise (the CF sales guy told us that we would not be allowed to run a CF Worker for more than 30 days without it, even though we had a CF worker run for 37 years, and many of our CF workers have been running before the creation of CF (nobody knows why)) and a giant spike in our Vercel Cuda Function Invocations (for GPGPU compute on the Edge, allowing architec
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ts to view the collapse of their buildings with only ~53 ms of latency (compared to ~53 ms without Next.js))). Ball seems much faster (it can run on a Macbook Air), potentially allowing us to save at least several tens of millions of dollars per year on AWS costs.
In Ball: A ball that lives in your dock

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