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ssloy
tinykaboom
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ssloy / tinykaboom

tinykaboom

A brief computer graphics / rendering course

4Distinct people
4Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
2.4KGitHub stars
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What it is

A brief computer graphics / rendering course

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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, 12:54:37 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-01-27 18:07:59 UTC to 2025-06-25 10:32:07 UTC.

0122019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 2 submissions, 0 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC220
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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The personal website of Dmitry V. Sokolov. Includes the TinyRenderer: https://haqr.eu/tinyrenderer, TinyCompiler: https://haqr.eu/tinycompiler, and TinyOptimizer: https://haqr.eu/tinyoptimizer tutorials. Other tutorials and the same in other formats can be found in the author's GitHub: https://github.com/ssloy/. * Tiny renderer or how OpenGL works: software rendering in 500 lines of code: https://github.com/ssloy/tinyrenderer/wiki) * TinyRaytracer: Understandable RayTracing in 256 lines of bare C++: https://github.com/ssloy/tinyraytracer/wiki * TinyRaycaster: 486 lines of C++: old-school FPS in a weekend: https://github.com/ssloy/tinyraytracer/wiki * KABOOM! in 180 lines of bare C++: https://github.com/ssloy/tinykaboom/wiki/KABOOM!-in-180-line... * Least squares for programmers: https://github.com/ssloy/least-squares-course)
In Playing with Code
So if someone is interested in these Computer Graphics resources, you might also like these links: Computer Graphics from Scratch: https://www.gabrielgambetta.com/computer-graphics-from-scrat... The tiny{raytracer,renderer,kaboom} series: https://github.com/ssloy/tinyraytracer & https://github.com/ssloy/tinyrenderer & https://github.com/ssloy/tinykaboom Ray tracing a tiny procedural planet: https://casual-effects.com/research/McGuire2019ProcGen/McGui... with the video on https://youtu.be/JvfjYuz7q4I
In Raytracing in One Weekend (2016)

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