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I wrote a C++ ray tracer from scratch without AI

Gaming — A C++ ray tracer built from scratch, demonstrating expertise in computer graphics and rendering
Gaming
● Verified live
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 24, 2026
Pulse 49.4 · 2/4
49.4
Pulse Index
2/4 families · real
-2.4
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
20
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
6
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Verified live by HTTP probe across 20 observations. Pulse momentum is negative over 30 days (-2.4) — observed activity is receding.

HTTP liveness

real
20 probes · Jun 15, 2026Aug 24, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 2 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 100% of 20 probesavg response 984 ms
Developer tractionreal
https://github.com/themartiano/luz
commit recency not yet snapshotted · github family active in Pulse
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
github.com
edge
direct origin
server
github.com
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

I wrote a C++ ray tracer from scratch without AI's listed site resolved live when we last probed it on Aug 24, 2026, so we mark it verified alive. Its Pulse Index is 49.4 of 100, built from 2 of 4 observed signal families. Observed footprint: 6 functional tags. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
Choq: Cherry (ClojureScript) on QuickJSdev-toolstag-overlap100%41.5● live
Micron: a high performance C++23 (re)implementation of Libc and the STLdev-toolstag-overlap86%40.0-4.7● live
SiteOnYourDevicedev-toolstag-overlap83%8.00.0— unverified
I built clawai-toolstag-overlap75%— unverified
Netmnt 0.2.0dev-toolstag-overlap71%40.0● live
Random OS I made using Cothertag-overlap71%40.0● live
The Virtual OS Museumdev-toolstag-overlap71%44.40.0● live
C# Game Engine with its own scripting language and IDEgamingsimilar71%32.8● live

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelunknown
Liveness tierquiet
Competitive alternativesnone linked
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-24 13:14Z200github.comgithub.com946alive
2026-08-13 13:45Z200github.comgithub.com1985alive
2026-08-09 18:53Z200github.comgithub.com2086alive
2026-08-08 03:56Z200github.comgithub.com580alive
2026-07-30 20:11Z200github.comgithub.com521alive
2026-07-26 16:51Z200github.comgithub.com486alive
2026-07-18 13:36Z200github.comgithub.com527alive
2026-07-13 13:24Z200github.comgithub.com2838alive
2026-07-04 15:30Z200github.comgithub.com452alive
2026-07-03 00:08Z200github.comgithub.com451alive
2026-06-28 12:48Z200github.comgithub.com425alive
2026-06-24 13:18Z200github.comgithub.com569alive
2026-06-23 12:47Z200github.comgithub.com563alive
2026-06-22 12:45Z200github.comgithub.com1347alive
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · I wrote a C++ ray tracer from scratch without AI · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/hn-48538833-i-wrote-a-c-ray-tracer-from-scratch-without-ai · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.