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Products that do what Asimov's Foundation Universe does
Explore 20,000 years of Asimov's Foundation universe
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Summaries of the ideas, breakdowns, frameworks and more
2022
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Bringing ‘A Brief History of Time’ to a whole new generation
2016
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Hi HN! I’ve spent the summer of the past 2 years building The Atlas, a procedural universe simulator that generates 1 sextillion galaxies (10²¹) from a single mathematical seed. Think No Man’s Sky meets theoretical physics, but running entirely in your browser. Everything is purely deterministic, the universe is calculated from SHA-256 hashed seeds using the golden ratio as primordial constant. There’s no database, no pre-saved data, just pure math. Time itself is treated as a coordinate, so the universe exists as a 4D structure where any moment can be computed on demand. Shut it down for…
Sep 2025 · github.com
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