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Simon Coenen

Personal blog · simoncoenen.com/blogprogramminggames

Simon Coenen's personal blog at simoncoenen.com covers programming and games. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “How Doom Eternal Renders a Frame”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.

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4mentions?
4HN people?
2020–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2020

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

Why HN links it

Linked by HN readers as a frame-analysis write-up on game graphics rendering, alongside similar analyses of Elden Ring and Overwatch. The comment itself only links to it.

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.

Simon Coenen, Graphics Programmer

Most-linked posts?

  1. How Doom Eternal Renders a Frame
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-09-07

What Hacker News says?

  1. They're still around ... https://mamoniem.com/behind-the-pretty-frames-elden-ring/ https://alain.xyz/blog/frame-analysis-overwatch https://simoncoenen.com/blog/programming/graphics/DoomEterna...

    Comment linking /blog/programming/graphics/DoomEternalStudy

    on “Alan Wake 2 Is an Unexpected Visual Marvel Even on Older GPUs”
  2. Submitted Doom Eternal – Graphics Study as a story · 167 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted How Doom Eternal Renders a Frame as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Doom Eternal – Graphics Study as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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