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Krzysztof Narkowicz

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Krzysztof Narkowicz's personal blog at knarkowicz.wordpress.com covers games and programming. Since 2016, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Journey to Lumen”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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5mentions?
5HN people?
2016–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2022

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for first-hand accounts from game developers, such as a post on how the Unreal Engine Lumen lighting system came about. Its posts cover video game graphics and development.

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.

Engine / Graphics Programmer

Most-linked posts?

  1. Journey to Lumen
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-08-18

What Hacker News says?

  1. starkparker · 2023-04-22Recommends
    There's a good breakdown from one of the Lumen devs for more detail on how it came about: https://knarkowicz.wordpress.com/2022/08/18/journey-to-lumen...

    Comment linking /2022/08/18/journey-to-lumen/

    on “Faster LZ is not the answer to 150-250 GB video game downloads”
  2. Submitted Journey to Lumen as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Journey to Lumen as a story · 2 points

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  4. Submitted GDC 2018 Presentations as a story · 1 points

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  5. Submitted GDC 2016 Presentations as a story · 1 points

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