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Top storyInspo·5 days ago

Still: From Akira to Ink Wash, Building a Generative Garden in WebGPU

Still, a generative garden in WebGPU, integrates Japanese art influences and procedural systems to create a living, interactive astronaut story chapter with toon shading and ink wash effects.

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Stories from Wednesday, 9 September 2026

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Atlas: a world model for spatial intelligence

World Labs introduces Atlas, a next-generation omni world model pretrained from scratch to natively operate on text, images, video, and 3D, enabling diverse tasks like world generation and spatial reconstruction.

6 days ago·13 min read
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Opensource UI

Opensource UI offers a free, MIT-licensed library of over 200 production-ready React and Next.js components, built with TypeScript and Tailwind CSS v4, for designers and developers.

6 days ago·26 min read
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The designer who drew Cursor’s icons

Marek Minor, designer of Cursor's 600+ icons, explains his process for creating new icons, emphasizing the search for a concept's "attractor" and the iterative exploration required for novel ideas.

6 days ago·8 min read
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Four questions about AGI

The author argues that Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is a distracting "red herring" term, proposing four questions to better understand the concept and its implications.

6 days ago·21 min read
AI & Tools
Hugging Face
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Safety for Whom? Refusing the Right Subset of a Topic, Not the Whole Topic

Large language models' safety alignment should refuse specific harmful subsets of a topic, not the entire topic, to allow for nuanced deployment policies, according to new research.

6 days ago·7 min read
UX & Thinking
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The model is behaving impeccably. Your information architecture isn’t.

A 1960 study on city maps reveals that information architecture, not AI model behavior, is often the root cause of user confusion with AI context.

7 Sept
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Editor's pick

Limit the number of details

Designers should limit the number of details in their work, as excessive features and controls can dilute attention and transform design into mere management.

Sidebar.io
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Atlas: a world model for spatial intelligence

6 days ago·13 min read
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Look & feel

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Drawing With Light: An Exploration of Lit GPU Tubes with TSL and WebGPU

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The model is behaving impeccably. Your information architecture isn’t.

7 Sept
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The sycophancy trap: what happens when feelings become the metric

7 Sept
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Building a Real-Time 3D Face Mask with MediaPipe, Threlte and Three.js

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Building an Infinite Loom: Unravelling Images into Threads with Three.js

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More Three.js Speakers, More Ideas from Paris