Hey folks, over the weekend I built and released an online coin pusher. It’s multiplayer no sign up required built on web GPU and Cloudflare workers with realtime backend physics and some cool pixel shaders.
There’s a merch shop and buyable coins but please don’t buy or redeem anything because that’s currently fake for the tech demo. The economy is also generous so no need to buy tokens — just wanted to show off the project!
Hey thanks! I made this, its very WIP so surprised anyone found it.
It's basically a 3d scene implemented in webgpu with a custom pixel shader. Server sided physics, streamed to the frontend with a very cheap client that just lerps stuff around in the scene.
I just posted this somewhere else -- but overall big fan of these text to cad rigs as projects.
Obligatory mention of https://zoo.dev/ who went to extreme lengths on this.
I will say I explored this reasonably deeply and came away with the conclusion that even though we have OpenSCAD and all these examples, LLMs are still very weak at spatial reasoning compared to diffusion models.
You can do all sorts of tricks like have a parts library to get around this and do physics checks but another inconvenient truth is whenever you design a complex assembly, every change to that part needs to be aware of the other parts in the design -- thus you need a global part-aware editing capability from diffusion.
That's getting solved already in china leading labs, and bottlenecked by the lack of good training data, which china is solving with mass labor.
This will be solved overseas first before we will in the US.
p.s. I am not affiliated with zoo or any of these other things FYI was just very curious about this whole area
Obligatory mention of https://zoo.dev/ the leader in this space.
I will say I explored this reasonably deeply and came away with the conclusion that even though we have OpenSCAD and all these examples, LLMs are still very weak at spatial reasoning compared to diffusion models.
You can do all sorts of tricks like have a parts library to get around this and do physics checks but another inconvenient truth is whenever you design a complex assembly, every change to that part needs to be aware of the other parts in the design -- thus you need a global part-aware editing capability from diffusion.
That's getting solved already in china leading labs, and bottlenecked by the lack of good training data, which china is solving with mass labor.
This will be solved overseas first before we will in the US.
One would imagine they are broadly similar; but that's off the assumption that codebases are similar as well.
Migrations between versions can have big variance largely as a function of the parent codebase and not the dependency change. A simple example of this would be a supported node version bump. It's common to lose support for older node runtimes with new dependency versions, but migrating the parent codebase may require large custom efforts like changing module systems.
This was created by Zach Latta, who runs an awesome non profit called Hack Club that produces some of the top high school technical talent through community coding clubs. Highly encourage you donate to Hack Club!
I run a sw supply chain company (fossa.com) -- agree that there's a lot of low hanging gains like inventory still around. There is a shocking amount of very basic but invisible surface area that leads to downstream attack vectors.
From a company's PoV -- I think you'd have to just assume all 3rd party code is popped and install some kind of control step given that assumption. I like the idea of reviewing all 3rd party code as if its your own which is now possible with some scalable code review tools.
Very interesting research -- possibilities are endless for personalization, rigging, character animation. Especially interesting how few frames it takes to accomplish this.
StaySaasy is my favorite tech blog of 2021. I am glad to see it on HN. I think their posts are a really unique and thoughtful corpus for a gap in thought leadership for scaling B2B engineering / product teams.
There’s a merch shop and buyable coins but please don’t buy or redeem anything because that’s currently fake for the tech demo. The economy is also generous so no need to buy tokens — just wanted to show off the project!