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Charlie Gerard
Personal blog · charliegerard.dev/blogprogrammingwebhardware
Charlie Gerard's personal blog at charliegerard.dev covers programming, web and hardware. Since 2020, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Building an aircraft radar system in JavaScript (2022)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post as a how-to for a webcam head-tracking optical illusion effect that runs in the browser. One commenter cites it as the implementation reference.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Collection of side projects, conference talks and blog posts experimenting with frontend technologies and human-computer interaction
Most-linked posts?
- Building an aircraft radar system in JavaScript (2022)5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2022-08-29
- Running a ransomware attack in a Node.js module2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-05-10
- Ultrasonic Payments2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-06-07
What Hacker News says?
If you're curious what an implementation looks like: Charlie Gerard's article[1] shows how to accomplish a similar effect in-browser. It's pretty straight forward although not sure what performance looks like in large scenes. I like the idea, but don't know if people are ready to grant webcam permissions to untrusted any websites. 1: https://charliegerard.dev/blog/interactive-frame-head-tracki...
Comment linking /blog/interactive-frame-head-tracking
on “Could we make the web more immersive using a simple optical illusion?”Submitted Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs as a story · 404 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ultrasonic Payments as a story · 181 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hacking cars in JavaScript (Replay attacks in the browser with the HackRF) as a story · 125 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building an aircraft radar system in JavaScript (2022) as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building an aircraft radar system in JavaScript as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating a GitHub action to detect toxic comments using TensorFlow.js as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building an aircraft radar system in JavaScript as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building an aircraft radar system in JavaScript as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building an aircraft radar system in JavaScript as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stealing credentials via polymorphic Chrome Extension as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ultrasonic Javascript payments as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How easy it is to run a ransomware attack in a Node.js module as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Running a ransomware attack in a Node.js module as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted LiFi: Sending data via light using Arduino and JavaScript as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building an aircraft radar system in JavaScript as a story · 1 points
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