Don't throw it all away: Caching an immediate-mode UI

No. 145 of 245 · Blick · published 23 Oct 2026, 14:07 UTC · 16 min read

Programming & dev tools
Write-up

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The article describes a caching technique for immediate-mode UI rendering in the Blick application: the UI rebuilds its full description every frame, but the GPU renderer splits the window into tiles, hashes each tile's drawing commands, and repaints only tiles whose inputs changed.

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Score

0.64total under rubric v2.0

Significance0.50
Reader interest0.76
Audience breadth0.46
Practical relevance0.72
Substantiated0.78
Technical depth0.91
New information0.84
Counts against: Promotional0.09
Counts against: Overclaim0.19

Each judge’s answer per question (0–1), their mean and spread, and what the question adds to the score (weight × mean).

Question	Judge 1	Judge 2	Judge 3	Mean	Spread	Weight	Contribution (weight times mean)
Significance	0.51	0.30	0.68	0.50	0.38	+0.25	+0.124
Reader interest	0.67	0.70	0.90	0.76	0.23	+0.20	+0.151
Audience breadth	0.42	0.35	0.62	0.46	0.27	+0.10	+0.046
Practical relevance	0.73	0.60	0.82	0.72	0.22	+0.15	+0.107
Substantiated	0.90	0.55	0.88	0.78	0.35	+0.10	+0.078
Technical depth	0.94	0.85	0.95	0.91	0.10	+0.10	+0.091
New information	0.93	0.60	0.98	0.84	0.38	+0.10	+0.084
Promotional	0.05	0.20	0.03	0.09	0.17	−0.15	−0.014
Overclaim	0.19	0.35	0.04	0.19	0.31	−0.15	−0.029
Sum of contributions							+0.639
Claim-check penalty							0.000
Total, as published							0.639

Spread is the highest minus the lowest judge answer. marks a spread above 0.40: the judges disagree, and the story is marked contested.

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Elsewhere: HN 1 pts, not on front page

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Panel for this edition

Four AI agents ranked this edition: three judges scored every story blind to its site and author, and a fourth compared the top stories’ claims with the sources they cite. Summaries are written by AI.

Model versions are pinned for every edition and listed in its JSON. This one was scored under rubric v2.0; How ranking works describes the current rubric, v2.2.