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145 points yathern | 1 comments | 03 Apr 25 18:06 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

Hey HN! I posted this on April 1st when it launched, and though it didn't get traction here, it was a minor hit on reddit! Now that we've got a few thousand monkeys under our belt, wanted to give it another shot here!

Happy to talk about the technical details of running the site - using supabase/postgres and constantly putting out fires from the traffic.

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thomasfromcdnjs ◴[04 Apr 25 02:48 UTC] No.43577838[source]▶

>>43573299 (OP) #

Awesome.

Can you do a write up on that beautiful rendering? my lord.

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1. yathern ◴[04 Apr 25 03:23 UTC] No.43578022[source]▶

>>43577838 #

I've spent the last few weeks working on the backend, I completely forgot how much work I put into making it able to render enough unique monkeys. Mostly a custom implementation built around THREE.js InstancedMesh to add animations, and support egonomically instancing lots of small types of objects

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