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Why JPEG XL ignoring bit depth is genius (and why AVIF can't pull it off)
JPEG and AVIF are locked to 8, 10 or 12 bits. JPEG XL works in float32 with the XYB color space, so bit depth stops mattering. Here’s why that helps HDR.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 31,671 posts.
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We saved $500k per year by rolling our own "S3"
At thousands of uploads/second, S3’s per-request fees dominated costs. We built N3, a Rust in-memory landing zone with S3 as overflow.
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The MP3.com Rescue Barge Barge
So back in November, I grabbed 1.78TB of media from the Internet Archive’s mp3.com Rescue Barge, and their Wayback Machine both, in pursuit of creating the most thoroughly complete archive I can muster of MP3.com’s music.
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Alzheimer's disrupts circadian rhythms of plaque-clearing brain cells
A mouse study at WashU Medicine shows how Alzheimer’s disease reprograms genes in specialized cells involved in amyloid plaque removal.
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NewPipe Is Turning 10
Guess what? NewPipe just turned 10 this month last month! Time just flew by. In one moment you hit “new project”, and in the next there is a whole association, a group of maintainers, an uncountable amount of contributors, and millions of users!1 This is amazing. Last time we wrote about an important birthday, NewPipe…
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D2: Diagram Scripting Language
D2 is a diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams. It stands for
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Project Amplify: Powered footwear for running and walking
Nike’s Project Amplify is the world’s first powered footwear system for running and walking, designed to help everyday athletes go a little bit faster and farther — all with less effort.
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We do not have sufficient links to the UK for Online Safety Act to be applicable
We can argue that we are out-of-scope for the UK’s Online Safety Act.
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Rock Tumbler Instructions
A detailed step-by-step guide for turning rough rocks into beautiful gems with a rotary rock tumbler.
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Synadia and TigerBeetle Commit $512k USD to the Zig Software Foundation
Announcing a shared commitment to advancing the future of systems programming and reliable distributed software.
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Simplify your code: Functional core, imperative shell
This article was adapted from a Google Tech on the Toilet (TotT) episode. You can download a printer-friendly version of this TotT epis...
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How the brain's activity, energy use and blood flow change as people fall asleep
Read the latest articles, insights, and press releases from Mass General Brigham.
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Key IOCs for Pegasus and Predator Spyware Removed with iOS 26 Update
iVerify brings operating system-level telemetry, behavioral baselining, and AI-driven threat hunting to hundreds of thousands of mobile devices
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The Swift SDK for Android
Swift has matured significantly over the past decade — extending from cloud services to Windows applications, browser apps, and microcontrollers. Swift powers apps and services of all kinds, and thanks to its great interoperability, you can share code across platforms.
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Why I code as a CTO
Assembled CTO John Wang on why coding makes him a better leader—and how AI tools are redefining what it means to build at scale.
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A sharded DuckDB on 63 nodes runs 1T row aggregation challenge in 5 sec
What happens when you give a distributed SQL engine a trillion-row dataset? GizmoEdge crushed the Coiled challenge with a 1,000-worker cluster on Azure.
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Typst 0.14
Typst 0.14 is out now. With accessibility by default, PDFs as images, character-level justification, and more, it has everything you need to move from draft to...
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Alaska Airlines' statement on IT outage
Saturday, Oct. 25 - 10 a.m. Pacific Time Alaska Airlines’ operations have returned to normal following a significant IT outage on Thursday, Oct. 23, that led to a systemwide ground stop for Alaska and Horizon Air-operated flights. As of Saturday morning, we have canceled nine flights related to the IT outage recovery…
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JupyterGIS breaks through to the next level
Launched in June 2024, JupyterGIS was introduced as a collaborative, web-based GIS environment built on the JupyterLab framework. Its objective is to
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How memory maps (mmap) deliver faster file access in Go
Learn how memory maps (mmap) accelerate file I/O, reduce latency, and improve app performance in Unix and Go with real-world benchmarks.
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OpenAI acquires Sky.app
OpenAI has acquired Software Applications Incorporated, maker of Sky—a natural language interface for Mac that brings AI directly into your desktop experience. Together, we’re integrating Sky’s deep macOS capabilities into ChatGPT to make AI more intuitive, contextual, and action-oriented.
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New updates and more access to Google Earth AI
Earth AI is helping enterprises and cities with everything from environmental monitoring to disaster response.
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Claude Memory
Today, we’re introducing memory to the Claude app, where Claude remembers you and your team’s projects and preferences, eliminating the need to re-explain context and keeping complex work moving forward.
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Unexpected patterns in historical astronomical observations
Researchers at Nordita at Stockholm University have analyzed flashes of light on astronomical plates from the early 1950s and found statistical connections between the times of these flashes, nuclear weapons tests and reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP). The results are presented in two studies published…
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Casey Muratori: I can always tell a good programmer in an interview
How to reliably understand if a candidate is a good programmer, inspired by Casey Muratori
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Corrosion
Corrosion is distributed service discovery based on Rust, SQLite, and CRDTs.
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PyTorch Monarch
We now live in a world where ML workflows (pre-training, post training, etc) are heterogeneous, must contend with hardware failures, are increasingly asynchronous and highly dynamic. Traditionally, PyTorch has relied...
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Google flags Immich sites as dangerous
How Google actively breaks Immich deployments, an open-source Google Photos alternative.
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Django 6.0 beta 1 released
Posted by Natalia Bidart on Oct. 22, 2025