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Computer graphics & rendering Videos Recommended on Hacker News (114)
Computer graphics & rendering is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 114 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2009 and 2026 — 303 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Computer graphics: ray tracing, path tracing, shaders, GPU rendering, real-time graphics, SIGGRAPH, procedural generation, simulation, volumetric displays, physics-based rendering.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on The Beauty of Bézier Curves: “it's genuinely one of the best math/graphics/explainer videos ever made” — an HN commenter, 2025.
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1 mo on HNThe History of 3D Graphics on the Gameboy Advance | minimme
minimme
1 HN recommend · 2022–2023
1 mo on HN2013 Sci-Tech Awards: Matt Pharr, Greg Humphreys and Pat Hanrahan
Oscars
1 HN recommend · 2014–2022
1 mo on HNRaycasting engine in Factorio (vanilla 0.17) - Facto-RayO v1.0
arrow in my gluteus maximus
1 HN recommend · 2019–2021
1 mo on HNFastest browser engine by far at 500 FPS! Servo Webrender - CSS on the GPU part 1: Rust
𝓖𝓷𝓸𝓶𝓮💫𝓢𝓪𝓷𝓮
1 HN recommend · 2017–2017
1 mo on HNBrigade 3.0 preview - Real-time path tracing
icelaglace
1 HN recommend · 2014–2018
1 mo on HNFaking RTX Global Illumination vs. RTX | 100% Ray-Traced Game, Pt 1
Gamers Nexus
1 HN recommend · 2019–2019
1 mo on HNComputational Design of Mechanical Characters
DisneyResearchHub
1 HN recommend · 2013–2025
1 mo on HNErik Jansson - GPU driven Rendering with Mesh Shaders in Alan Wake 2
Digital Dragons
2 HN recommender · 2024–2025
1 mo on HNpuls (256 bytes)
JanRrrolaKadlec
1 HN recommend · 2011–2014
1 mo on HNants simulation
Hugh Lomas
1 HN recommend · 2014–2022
1 mo on HNpointerpointer.com's use of voronoi, canvas, and javascript
Paul Irish
1 HN recommend · 2012–2025
1 mo on HNCrafting A Tiny Open World: A Short Hike Postmortem
GDC Festival of Gaming
1 HN recommend · 2020–2022
1 mo on HNBrigade 3 real-time path tracing
Sam Lapere (Supergastrocnemius)
1 HN recommend · 2014–2019
1 mo on HNXDC 2020 - Day 1 - September 16, 2020
X.Org Foundation
1 HN recommend · 2020–2022
1 mo on HNI Tried Turning Games Into Text
Acerola
1 HN recommend · 2024–2026
1 mo on HN"Pipe Dream" - Animusic.com
AnimusicLLC
1 HN recommend · 2019–2024
1 mo on HNNeural Network Learns The Physics of Fluids and Smoke | Two Minute Papers #118
Two Minute Papers
1 HN recommend · 2017–2024
1 mo on HNRendering Tiny Glades With Entirely Too Much Ray Marching
Graphics Programming Conference
1 HN recommend · 2024–2025
1 mo on HNHow life emerges from a simple particle motion law: Introducing the Primordial Particle System
Artificial Life Lab Graz
1 HN recommend · 2019–2021
1 mo on HNFlexible Muscle-Based Locomotion for Bipedal Creatures
Goatstream
1 HN recommend · 2017–2022
1 mo on HNSonic behind waterfall - RetroArch shader comparison
PenguinWeirdness
1 HN recommend · 2020–2024
1 mo on HNNear-Eye Light Field Displays
Douglas Lanman
2 HN recommender · 2014–2018
1 mo on HNWhy PlayStation 1 Graphics Warped and Wobbled so much | MVG
Modern Vintage Gamer
1 HN recommend · 2020–2022
0 mo on HNUnlimited Detail Real-Time Rendering Technology Preview 2011 [HD]
Axiom Holographics
0 HN recommender · 2015–2020
0 mo on HNDestiny's Multithreaded Rendering Architecture
GDC Festival of Gaming
0 HN recommender · 2015–2020
0 mo on HNSGI IRIS 2400 (1985)
VintageCG
0 HN recommender · 2013–2023
0 mo on HNFairy Lights in Femtoseconds: Tangible Holographic Plasma (SIGGRAPH)
Yoichi Ochiai
0 HN recommender · 2015–2024
0 mo on HNThis game DISAPPEARS if you pause it!
Branta Games
0 HN recommender · 2025–2026
0 mo on HNAtari XL/XE - Rescue on Fractalus [Lucasfilm Games] 1985
StaxX28
0 HN recommender · 2011–2025
0 mo on HNEulerian Video Magnification
Miki Rubinstein
0 HN recommender · 2012–2018
0 mo on HNEvolved Virtual Creatures (1994)
karlsims
0 HN recommender · 2024–2025
0 mo on HNSparse Voxel Octree (SVO) Demo by Jon Olick
Zelexi
0 HN recommender · 2010–2011
0 mo on HNMake Your Renders Unnecessarily Complicated
sirrandalot
0 HN recommender · 2025–2026
0 mo on HNQt 5 based 3D Wayland compositor
Samuel Rødal
0 HN recommender · 2013–2020
0 mo on HNEnemies – real-time cinematic teaser | Unity
Unity
0 HN recommender · 2022–2022
0 mo on HNFastest browser engine by far at 500 FPS! Servo Webrender - CSS on the GPU part 2: Demo
𝓖𝓷𝓸𝓶𝓮💫𝓢𝓪𝓷𝓮
0 HN recommender · 2017–2023