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Jpegli: A new JPEG coding library
Jpegli, an advanced JPEG coding library that maintains high backward compatibility is faster, and more efficient, than traditional JPEG.
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The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 118 posts.
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2024: The year of the OpenStreetMap vector maps
OpenStreetMap will take a large leap forward with the introduction of vector tiles on openstreetmap.org this year. This is the first of a series of blog posts where we will share our progress.
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End of the road for Google Drive in Transmit
We never like removing functionality from our apps. We especially don’t like doing it when it’s due to circumstances beyond our control. But, sometimes — rarely? — it can happen, and so, please take note:
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NotebookLM launches feature to customize and guide audio overviews
NotebookLM is piloting a way for teams to collaborate, and introducing a new way to customize Audio Overviews.
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Mozilla's new Firefox Linux package for Ubuntu and Debian derivatives
Great news for Linux users, after months of testing, Mozilla released today a new package for Firefox on Linux (specifically on Ubuntu, Debian, and any Deb
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Darktable 5.0.0
We’re proud to announce the new feature release of darktable, 5.0.0! The github release is here: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-5.0.0. To build from source, do not use the autogenerated tarball provided by GitHub on the release page, download our tar.xz file instead. If you’re just…
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Bluesky has launched RSS feeds
Now that Bluesky's got its own RSS feeds, here's what you should know
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Maestro: Netflix's Workflow Orchestrator
By Jun He, Natallia Dzenisenka, Praneeth Yenugutala, Yingyi Zhang, and Anjali Norwood
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Making the Tibetan language a first-class citizen in the digital world
Read about a major milestone in technological innovation of the Tibetan language as the open source software suite LibreOffice's latest update supports an important feature of Tibetan: very long paragraphs.
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Mouth-based touchpad enables people living with paralysis to use computers
MIT Media Lab Spin-off Augmental has developed the MouthPad, a device that allows users to interact with phones and computers using their tongue and other head gestures.
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Code search is hard
Searching code at scale without employing a search team is hard
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Mozilla Monitor Plus: automatically remove your personal info from data brokers
Today, Mozilla Monitor (previously called Firefox Monitor), a free service that notifies you when your email has been part of a breach, announced its new p
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My thoughts on Python in Excel
An in-depth review of Microsoft's new Python in Excel functionality
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Students invent quieter leaf blower
Patent-pending design by Hopkins undergrads could be available in stores within two years
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Structured Outputs with Ollama
Ollama now supports structured outputs making it possible to constrain a model's output to a specific format defined by a JSON schema. The Ollama Python and JavaScript libraries have been updated to support structured outputs.
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Kagi Translate
Today, we're introducing Kagi Translate. It's not revolutionary - it's simply a better translation service. Our combination of advanced language models and precise output selection delivers translations that surpass existing solutions, including Google Translate and DeepL....
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Linux Touchpad Like MacBook Update: 2023 Progress on Smooth Scrolling
Bill is driven by the challenge of how best to quantify valuable questions that defy quantification. It's possible this instinct may have been awakened in Bill at age 14, when he won a soft, stuffed bunny at the orthodontist for guessing the number of jelly beans in the gumball machine.
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How to Use JSON Path
From API contract to documentation portal: streamline your workflow and deliver the best API experience. Built for engineers and tech writers.
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Lcl.host: fast, easy HTTPS in your local dev environment
Today we are launching lcl.host , a free devtool for web developers to quickly setup & use HTTPS locally. With lcl.host , you get a secure browser context in development that matches your production environment. Eliminate mixed asset issues, CORS errors, and secure cookie misconfiguration before they cause problems in…
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LM Studio 0.3 – Discover, download, and run local LLMs
LM Studio 0.3.0 is here! Built-in (naïve) RAG, light theme, internationalization, Structured Outputs API, Serve on the network, and more.
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Console.delight
Everyone knows you can use console.log() to log text and variables to the console. Did you know you could also render (limited) CSS, SVGs, and even HTML in it?!? I didn't! It's a neat technique that can delight the curious and further your brand for curious users.
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A Spreadsheet and a Debugger Walk into a Shell
Here we continue the series of posts on the development of a command-line shell which defies terminal emulation by using the display server API locally and a purpose built network protocol remotely…
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Bento: Jupyter Notebooks at Meta
This episode of the Meta Tech Podcast is all about Bento, Meta’s internal distribution of Jupyter Notebooks, an open-source web-based computing platform. Bento allows our engineers to mix code, tex…
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GIMP 2.99.18: The last development preview before 3.0
Release news for version GIMP 2.99.18
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