Articles by davikr
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Max Payne – two decades later – Graphics Critique (2021) (darkcephas.blogspot.com)

2

How to Vulkan in 2026 (howtovulkan.com)

8

Anti-cheat evolution in Windows 11 (andrea-allievi.com)

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USB 3.0* Radio Frequency Interference Impact on 2.4 GHz Wireless Devices (2012) [pdf] (usb.org)

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Abusing x86 instructions to optimize PS3 emulation [RPCS3] [video] (youtube.com)

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Context: Odin’s Most Misunderstood Feature (gingerbill.org)

1

Two Virginia Men Arrested for Conspiring to Destroy Government Databases (justice.gov)

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Vulkan SDK now ships with SDL3 (twitter.com/lunarginc)

1

Why Intel and AMD couldn't play LBP together [video] (youtube.com)

5

Nvidia rumored to stop bundling memory with GPUs, squeezing smaller partners (videocardz.com)

1

1964 Recompiling Engine Documentation (2001) [pdf] (emudev.org)

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Making Crash Bandicoot (2011) (all-things-andy-gavin.com)

32

The Untold History of Arduino (2016) (arduinohistory.github.io)

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Reversing the Construction of the View-Projection Matrix (Game Engine Reversing) (zero-irp.github.io)

1

RTNN: Accelerating Neighbor Search Using Hardware Ray Tracing (arxiv.org)

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Darts, Dice, and Coins: Sampling from a Discrete Distribution (2011) (keithschwarz.com)

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Steam Machine (steampowered.com)

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x86 is an octal machine (1995) (gist.github.com)

2

Not possible to logout from one Google account, or change your default profile?

1

Nitrogen Crisis in the Netherlands (wikipedia.org)

3

The Generic Wellbutrin Problem: Whose Fault Is It? (2012) (science.org)

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Torvalds: "If somebody really wants to create bad hardware in this day and age" (kernel.org)

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Optimizing a 6502 image decoder, from 70 minutes to 1 minute (colino.net)

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Linux as a UEFI bootloader and kexecing windows (2022) (trmm.net)

2

On benchmarking: "measuring performance is hard" (2017) (ruudvanasseldonk.com)

3

Orforglipron led to significantly greater reductions in weight than placebo (nejm.org)

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Why do we use godawful blue-with-yellow-text for medical school lectures? (2020) (twitter.com/adamrodmanmd)

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Creating the OG Xbox Boot Sound: Using oldschool audio tech in a modern console (gamesoundcon.com)

1

Divergent Association Task (datcreativity.com)

10

Louisiana sues Roblox alleging the popular gaming site fails to protect children (apnews.com)

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The Ethical Considerations of Unmasking Procedures [pdf] (thesimonscenter.org)

4

The Markdown Monster (sr.ht)

1

Wplace – Paint the World (wplace.live)

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Revolutionizing Digital Connection: Roblox's Vision for Age-Based Communication (roblox.com)

42

Group Behind Steam Censorship Policies Have Powerful Allies (archive.org)

1

Slow VirtualBox on Windows (kdrozd.pl)

31

Mistakes Microsoft made in the Xbox security system (2005) (xboxdevwiki.net)

2

How Roblox Uses AI to Moderate Content on a Scale (roblox.com)

1

Fallout Foot Sliding: A Case Study in R&D [video] (youtube.com)

3

Oceans: Theory to Implementation (gikster.dev)

2

Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced OpenSource Dev Productivity [pdf] (metr.org)

1

Proximity Fuze (wikipedia.org)

2

Police in Brazil arrest a suspect over $100M banking hack (apnews.com)

24

Lima Site 85: How a CIA Helicopter Defended a Secret U.S. Radar Facility (aviacionline.com)

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Graphics programming like it's 2000 – An esoteric introduction to PS2 graphics (themaister.net)

2

How to build a handheld game console (leandrolinares.com)

1

How Pure Is This Cup of Joe? Coffee, Conspiracy, and Citizen Science (hackaday.com)

1

Car audio gurus schooled by DSP (sonarworks.com)

1

Ask HN: Google Workspace (impossibly) created on Gmail account

1

Toei Animation to Apply AI to 'Various Processes of Animation Production' (animecorner.me)

4

How does Opus codec sound when bitrate continuously decreases until the minimum? [video] (youtube.com)

1

Military Operations in Los Angeles, 1992 (militarymuseum.org)

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Valve has requested that we do not distribute Classic Offensive (classic-offensive.net)

1

PEB Obfuscation: Malware Dev 0x4 (synawk.com)

38

I Found Malware in a BeamNG Mod (lemonyte.com)

1

1952 Texas Gubernatorial Election (wikipedia.org)

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Implementing Silent Hill's Fog in My (Real) PS1 Game [video] (youtube.com)

12

Crime is down, way down (growsf.org)

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platform/x86/amd: pmc: Require at least 2.5 seconds between HW sleep cycles (freedesktop.org)

4

List of photographs considered the most important (wikipedia.org)

1

Warsaw Ghetto Boy (wikipedia.org)

36

Run RISC-V Binaries on AMD Zen-Series CPUs via Microcode Modification (rvspoc.org)

2

Google Maps UX: The India Conundrum (elizlaraki.substack.com)

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StarCraft: Remastered – Emulating a buffer overflow for fun and profit (2018) [pdf] (0xeb.net)

2

Freedesktop.org Migration Status Tracker (freedesktop.org)

4

The Early History of Deferred Shading and Lighting (sites.google.com)

1

Render Hell 2.0 (simonschreibt.de)

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Nvidia emulation journey, part 1: RIVA 128/NV3 architecture history and overview (86box.net)

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Barefoot Doctor (wikipedia.org)

3

Child ADHD risk linked to mother's use of acetaminophen (sciencedaily.com)

1

John Preston (Dog Handler) (wikipedia.org)

1

Antidepressant Tapering Calculator (drugtaper.com)

25

Clang Static Analyzer and the Z3 constraint solver (2022) (cambus.net)

214

FFmpeg School of Assembly Language (github.com/ffmpeg)

12

Cursed fire or #define black magic (ssloy.github.io)

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An inside look at NSA tactics, techniques and procedures from China's lens (inversecos.com)

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Valve releases Team Fortress 2 code (github.com/valvesoftware)

2

Some design patterns as universal abstractions (ploeh.dk)

4

A Boeing 737 MAX collided with an airport vehicle on the runway as it took off (businessinsider.com)

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String of recent killings linked to Bay Area 'Zizians' (sfgate.com)

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I use ChatGPT daily (scientist/coder perspective) (bartwronski.com)

51

Tilde, My LLVM Alternative (yasserarg.com)

1

Open Source Games List (OSGL) (trilarion.github.io)

2

Export Control Diffusion Confusion (oracle.com)

2

Procedural Content Generation Space (procgen.space)

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Fundamental Math for Game Developers (pikuma.com)

38

MessagePack: It's like JSON, but fast and small. (msgpack.org)

3

What if you tried hard? (aaronfrancis.com)

1

Step-by-step: Programming incrementally (2020) (ruby0x1.github.io)

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Virtual Memory Tricks (2017) (ruby0x1.github.io)

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Apple has reportedly stopped production on its Vision Pro due to lack of demand (videogameschronicle.com)

3

Agner Fog's Software Optimization Resources (agner.org)

1

Gallery of Processor Cache Effects (2010) (igoro.com)

2

Using Uninitialized Memory for Fun and Profit (2008) (swtch.com)

2

Writing a Simple Garbage Collector in C (maplant.com)

1

Introduction to Rotation for Computer Graphics (mauriciopoppe.com)

2

The Perfect Beer Glass Shape, According to Math (scientificamerican.com)

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Fixing the Loading in Myst IV: Revelation (medium.com/tomysshadow)

2

Learn Game Engine Programming (engine-programming.github.io)

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The Rules of Programming (2023) (therulesofprogramming.com)