Hacker News Top Stories with Summaries (February 29, 2024)
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<h1> Hacker News Top Stories</h1>
<p>Here are the top stories from Hacker News with summaries for February 29, 2024 :</p>
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The KDE desktop gets an overhaul with Plasma 6
Summary: KDE Plasma 6, KDE Frameworks 6, and KDE Gear 24.02 have been released, all based on the Qt 6 development framework. The release focuses on migrating to Wayland, improving performance, security, and support for newer hardware. Developers will benefit from the removal of deprecated frameworks and decreased dependencies. Plasma 6 introduces changes to default settings, including Wayland as the default graphical session and double-clicking to open files. The Breeze theme and System Settings application have been updated, and the Plasma Search feature has been refactored for faster performance.
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How video games use lookup tables
Summary: Video games use look-up tables (LUTs) for creative graphics programming techniques. This article explores how LUTs can transform grayscale footage into color and create diverse zombie variations. The process involves WebGL, fragment shaders, and tinting. Tinting, or multiplying image colors, has minimal performance impact due to latency hiding. Valve Software's Left 4 Dead uses tinting to enhance the game's visuals. LUTs offer powerful 3D capabilities for advanced color corrections and other uses in gaming and data visualization.