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Jure Triglav
Personal blog · juretriglav.si · on HN as juretriglavprogrammingscience
Jure Triglav's personal blog at juretriglav.si covers programming and science. Since 2011, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 42 times, most often “A WebGPU Implementation of Surfel-Based Global Illumination”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts about open, distributed search engines (such as YaCy and peer-to-peer indexing) and about input latency in browser text editors. Comments cite these posts as sources; none judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Computer graphics and XR, web and open science experiments.
Most-linked posts?
- A WebGPU Implementation of Surfel-Based Global Illumination3 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2026-01-29
- Show HN: An open distributed search engine for science3 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2014-06-21
- Compressing global illumination with neural networks3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-09-05
- What happens when you type a single letter into an “ordinary” text box2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-11-06
- Standards for Scientific Graphic Presentation2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-11-20
What Hacker News says?
Recently wrote about how surprisingly computationally intensive typing in it is ( https://juretriglav.si/what-happens-when-you-type-a-single-l... ), so it’s doubly surprising that it also doesn’t work as expected. But text editing on the web _is_ hard, and hard to get right on deploy 1, so I’m sure they’ll iron out the kinks soon.
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on “Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible”Submitted Open source collaborative text editors as a story · 628 points
HN discussion> Slack & notion make me close my eyes while typing, just because the delay between key press and pixels lighting up is so long that I get confused. It's like speaking with a 400ms or so echo of yourself being played back. Hugely distracting. That reminds me of this blogpost [1]. It's definitely possible to optimize the input latency of rich text editors in the browser: they just have to be close to the metal of the…
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on “Notion Timeline View”Submitted Show HN: An open distributed search engine for science as a story · 98 points
HN discussionFor those of you who, like me, thought a black hole spaceship is a spaceship travelling through black holes, I made an awesome diagram of how it's supposed to work. http://www.juretriglav.si/images/blackholespaceship.png
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on “Why we are unlikely to ever leave the solar system.”Submitted Standards for Scientific Graphic Presentation as a story · 76 points
HN discussionShameless plug: In January I'll be focusing on a project which deals specifically with scientific software: http://sciencetoolbox.org/ This current version is a product of a hackathon, but this month will be improving it and adding functionality which brings the scientific software developer and her efforts into focus. Scientific software is gaining importance, but the recognition its developers get is trailing behi…
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on “Rise of the Scientific Programmer”Submitted We need a hub for software in science as a story · 9 points
HN discussionProseMirror is more of a framework for building text editor libraries; Slate and Draft are drop-in, easier-to-integrate text editors. In addition, ProseMirror is built with JavaScript, and would require writing custom code to adapt to Vue or React. Slate and Draft are both built with React, which has it pros and cons. For example, using React means on each key press it’s going to run it’s whole virtual dom diff algo…
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on “Notion.clone: open-source notes editor like in Notion”Submitted Standards for Scientific Graphic Presentation as a story · 7 points
HN discussionA few little thoughts: I love that your graphics are decently large by default and the text is reasonably sized. Biggest complaint with PowerPoint and Excel for me is that the default settings make no sense and are next to illegible when projected. That said, this seems like an application ripe for the use of the figure style guides from long ago, which you may appreciate. This link shows some really clever thoughts…
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on “Show HN: I'm a professor who has developed an interactive Powerpoint alternative”Submitted Compressing global illumination with neural networks as a story · 6 points
HN discussionFascinating! Thank you for sharing, OP! Having recently gone down a similar rabbit hole [1], having references and starting points is incredibly useful for further exploration, as this stuff is very hard to search for. There does seem to be a direct computational link between information and the universe - and the way we’re using this link now , with classical computers, is highly abstracted and inefficient (the art…
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on “Information Is Physics”Submitted A WebGPU Implementation of Surfel-Based Global Illumination as a story · 3 points
HN discussionA distributed search engine for science, with all parts contained within a browser extension: https://github.com/ScholarNinja/extension A blog post about it recently hit the front page of HN: http://juretriglav.si/an-open-distributed-search-engine-for-... 130 people have installed the extension and my server has churned through 100+ GB of data in the past three days, so I'm having scaling/performance issues right of…
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on “Ask HN: What projects are you working on?”Submitted Surfel-based global illumination on the web as a story · 3 points
HN discussionGood stuff, there's definitely a value in "local search", where local stands for "your own stuff". Pinboard can be used in a similar way (the paid version), but the difference is that's FTS only for pinned things. Shameless plug, I'm attempting to do something similar specifically for science, but make those local results also available globally using a distributed network based on WebRTC. It's also a browser extens…
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on “Fetching.io: Search the full text of every web page you visit”Submitted Computing with Nature (from waves and leaves to quantum computing) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAwesome commenter is awesome! Thanks, there's still a lot that needs to be done but I'm getting there. Annotatr looks somewhat similar yes. They too have some issues with getting to critical mass, but you have to start somewhere. I have to look into integrating more services into Tiris (pubget, citeulike, mendeley). I think the biggest difference will be when I implement the embeddable commenting system, which shoul…
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on “Who listens to scientists? Mostly just other scientists.”Submitted Computing with Nature as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHow does one make logical gates with waves? Quite a few such things popping up recently, looks like alternative/natural computing is trending. I wonder what the reasons for that are - Moore’s law drying up? You can read more here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21665931 and (OC) https://juretriglav.si/computing-with-nature/ . Any other interesting sources?
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on “Toward more efficient computing, with magnetic waves”Submitted Can we speed up science with chat? as a story · 3 points
HN discussion1A: Wikipedia, github (e.g. awesome-*) 1B: named-data networking, camlistore, ipfs.io, bittorrent's web -- very easy to censor since all content is uniquely identified by a hash 1C: ? 1D: Usenet, Wikipedia, Wikidata 1E: technically difficult, see history of YaCY and http://juretriglav.si/an-open-distributed-search-engine-for-... 2: Wikipedia, but content is rejected under arcane citation policy 3: Wikipedia, but con…
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on “The perils of programmer education in the bazaar”Submitted Thoughts on reproducibility of open scientific software as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSomething similar was posted to HN a while ago[0]. However, it was made specifically for indexing scientific papers without keeping all the content. Totally open source and runs in the browser. I feel like a more generic implementation could be done well, but hasn't been so far. [0]: http://juretriglav.si/an-open-distributed-search-engine-for-...
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on “Faroo: Peer-To-Peer Web Search”Submitted 3 simple things GitHub can do for science as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThere's a German metasearch engine funded by an NGO & University, which also funds the Yacy P2P engine: https://www.metager.de/en/ and http://yacy.net Scholar Ninja is trying to use WebRTC for distributed indexing and searching from a Chrome extension, but there's a Chrome/WebRTC bug which prevents long-running tasks: http://juretriglav.si/an-open-distributed-search-engine-for-...
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on “Dear Google, I am writing an open letter from the search wilderness”Submitted Surfel-based global illumination on the web as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThanks! Never been easier to start than right now. This physics engine is a bit opaque in terms of how it works, but I recently wrote about a global illumination approach that uses surfels - I break it down into small manageable pieces, with plenty of interactive visualizations, and it's also in WebGPU! If you have some time, maybe take a look at that and start taking it apart: https://juretriglav.si/surfel-based-gl…
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on “A WebGPU Implementation of Augmented Vertex Block Descent”Submitted Surfel-based global illumination on the web as a story · 2 points
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