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Lossless Float Image Compression

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-27 00:12:21

Back in 2021 I looked at OpenEXR lossless compression options (and I think my findings led a change of the default zip compression level, as well as change of the compression library from zlib to libdeflate. Yay blogging about things!). Then in 2023 I looked at losslessly compressing a bunch of floating point data, some of which might be image-shaped. Well, now a discussion somewhere else has nerd-sniped me to look into lossless compression of floating point images, and especially the ones that

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A Donkey Kong movie is a safe bet for Nintendo’s growing entertainment empire

theverge.com Andrew Webster 2025-07-30 19:40:17

It’s looking like Nintendo might have a DK-sized addition to its feature film lineup. The company has filed a copyright notice for a motion picture listed as an “Untitled Donkey Kong Project.” And last month, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa said in an investors call that the company was working on more movies, explaining that “although we cannot discuss our plans beyond The Legend of Zelda movie at this time, we are working on various other projects.” So even though a Donkey Kong movie isn’

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Discord’s virtual reward, ‘Orbs,’ launches out of beta

techcrunch.com Lauren Forristal 2025-07-30 19:00:00

After announcing in late May that the platform would be experimenting with a new virtual reward system, Discord is now launching it to the public. The aim of the rewards, called Orbs, is to get people to click on more interactive ads. Users earn Orbs after completing Quests, which involve interacting with ads for products or games to get virtual items. Users can redeem Orbs for digital items in Discord’s Shop, like a three-day Nitro credit, an Orb-themed profile badge, profile effects, avatar d

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Samsung Galaxy S26 series leak hints at an Edge future (again)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-07-31 07:27:05

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TL;DR The Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra will reportedly gain a 200MP main camera and a 50MP tele camera. Samsung’s middle Galaxy S26 model apparently has a 50MP ultrawide camera, much like the Galaxy S25 Edge. This ultrawide camera potentially hints at the Galaxy S26 Plus being swapped out for an S26 Edge. We already know that Samsung is hard at work on the Galaxy S26 series, and we’ve seen a few leaks already. Now, a trusted outlet has revealed some more details

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Show HN: Built a desktop app to organize photos locally with duplicate detection

news.ycombinator.com Maurits Van Hassel 2025-07-27 07:02:51

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Dyson Reveals Its Futuristic Farming Vision

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-30 21:38:00

Dyson, a company best known for its vacuums and hair dryers, unveiled a new circular farm design featuring rows of strawberry plants that rotate to share sunlight, robots that do everything from harvesting to releasing helpful insects, and sensors to help farmers keep an eye on things. The company is also getting into the renewable energy game. Check out the video in this article to find out how it all connects and what it could mean for the future of food.

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Show HN: FFmpeg in plain English – LLM-assisted FFmpeg in the browser

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-27 15:32:49

AI will craft the command and you can run it right in the browser. Waiting for FFmpeg to load... Add new input file submit Examples: “Keep the first 20 seconds of the video”, "Extract the audio into an mp3 file", "Mix the audio from the mp3 file into the video file, keep the length of the video!" Run ✅ Finished

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Hypercapitalism and the AI talent wars

news.ycombinator.com John Luttig 2025-07-30 22:09:34

Meta’s multi-hundred million dollar comp offers and Google’s multi-billion dollar Character AI and Windsurf deals signal that we are in a crazy AI talent bubble. The talent mania could fizzle out as the winners and losers of the AI war emerge, but it represents a new normal for the foreseeable future. If the top 1% of companies drive the majority of VC returns, why shouldn’t the same apply to talent? Our natural egalitarian bias makes this unpalatable to accept, but the 10x engineer meme doesn’

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The U.S. and EU Are Fighting Over Who Controls Big Tech

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2025-07-31 01:27:46

President Trump just slapped 30% tariffs on goods coming from the European Union, escalating a long-simmering conflict over who gets to write the rules for Big Tech. The move came just after Brussels moved forward with more regulations, this time targeting the booming field of artificial intelligence. The latest flashpoint is the EU’s new “Code of Practice” for AI, a set of voluntary guidelines released Thursday aimed at addressing public safety concerns. While not legally binding, the code bui

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Dyson Reveals Futuristic Farming Vision

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-31 02:38:19

Dyson, a company best known for its vacuums and hair dryers, unveiled a new circular farm design featuring rows of strawberry plants that rotate to share sunlight, robots that do everything from harvesting to releasing helpful insects, and sensors to help farmers keep an eye on things. The company is also getting into the renewable energy game. Check out the video in this article to find out how it all connects and what it could mean for the future of food.

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Scientists Gene Hack Mice So Their Livers Produce Their Own Ozempic-Like Drug

futurism.com Unknown 2025-07-31 02:51:22

Image by Remi Benali/Getty Images Rx/Medicines Scientists have gene-hacked mice to produce their own Ozempic-like drugs — possibly, and provocatively, perhaps paving a path for humans to do so themselves one day. In a new study published in the journal Communications Medicine, researchers from Japan's University of Osaka successfully gene-edited mice livers to produce exenatide, a first-generation diabetes drug and predecessor to now-trendy jabs like Ozempic and Mounjaro. Using lab mice that

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C3 solved memory lifetimes with scopes

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-28 21:27:42

2025-07-11 Modern languages offer a variety of techniques to help with dynamic memory management, each one a different tradeoff in terms of performance, control and complexity. In this post we’ll look at an old idea, memory allocation regions or arenas, implemented via the C3 Temp allocator, which is the new default for C3. The Temp allocator combines the ease of use of garbage collection with C3’s unique features to give a simple and (semi)-automated solution within a manual memory management

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Traditional Chinese Medicine Has Not Been Vindicated by Science

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-31 04:35:32

People love to show that skeptics were wrong about something, especially when national pride hangs in the balance. The South China Morning Post published the following headline on November 3rd: “Scientists find traditional Chinese medicine is based on a complex network of proteins – 3,000 years before modern science.” The article points out that respectable editorials in the scientific literature had repeatedly referred to traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) as “largely just pseudoscience” and “

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How does a screen work?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-30 21:09:06

2983 words | Dan Hollick How does a screen work? From electron guns to tiny electric crystals - digital displays have always been the unsung hero of computing. ╌╌╌╌

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Trump Is Losing His Army of Internet Alpha Males Over the Epstein Files

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-07-31 03:54:18

“Cover-up.” That’s the word ricocheting through the manosphere, echoing across X feeds and podcast episodes after the Trump administration released the so-called Epstein files, and declared the case closed. The backlash was instant and fierce. These were Donald Trump’s most vocal defenders in the 2024 campaign: tradcons, alpha bros, influencers, and masculine revivalists who painted Trump as a bulwark against the liberal elite and the “woke” takeover of America. They helped deliver young, disaf

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Meta acquires voice startup Play AI

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-07-31 04:32:25

In Brief Meta has acquired Play AI, a startup that uses AI to generate human-sounding voices. A Meta spokesperson has confirmed the acquisition, according to Bloomberg, which also reports that an internal memo stated that the “entire PlayAI team” will be joining the company next week. (TechCrunch has also reached out to Meta for confirmation.) Meta’s memo reportedly said that PlayAI’s “work in creating natural voices, along with a platform for easy voice creation, is a great match for our wor

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How does a screen even work?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-31 02:09:06

2983 words | Dan Hollick How does a screen work? From electron guns to tiny electric crystals - digital displays have always been the unsung hero of computing. ╌╌╌╌

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9 Best Electric Scooters (2025), Tested and Reviewed

wired.com Julian Chokkattu 2025-07-31 02:01:00

Other Scooters to Consider I've tested many scooters. Not all deserve a spot above, but some are still worth considering. Niu KQi 100P Photograph: Julian Chokkattu Niu KQi 100P for $350: The KQi 100P is slightly lighter, cheaper, and faster than the Segway E2 Pro, my top budget recommendation, but I eked out slightly less range (under 5 miles). Granted, most people will be able to go a little further since you're probably not 6'4" and 250 pounds, but the Niu just has a smaller battery than th

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Marc Andreessen reportedly told group chat that universities will ‘pay the price’ for DEI

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-07-30 13:07:29

In Brief Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen sharply criticized universities including Stanford and MIT, along with the National Science Foundation, in a group chat with AI scientists and Trump administration officials, according to screenshots viewed by the Washington Post. According to the Post, Andreessen described MIT and Stanford (which I attended two decades ago) as “mainly political lobbying operations fighting American innovation.” He also reportedly complained that Stanford “forced my

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Vibe-Coding a PCB – surprisingly good

news.ycombinator.com Chris Greening 2025-07-30 18:47:26

After "vibe coding" a software-based vibing button in my last video, I decided to take things one step further: vibe-coding the actual hardware. The challenge? Let AI design a working ESP32-S3 development board, from scratch. Tools of the Trade For this experiment, I used Atopile — a tool that lets you define a hardware project using code and turns it into a KiCad PCB. I also enlisted Claude, an AI coding assistant that seemed to outperform Cursor for this task. The Prompt The board needed t

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Context Engineering Guide

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-27 12:59:48

What is Context Engineering? A few years ago, many, even top AI researchers, claimed that prompt engineering would be dead by now. Obviously, they were very wrong, and in fact, prompt engineering is now even more important than ever. It is so important that it is now being rebranded as context engineering. Yes, another fancy term to describe the important process of tuning the instructions and relevant context that an LLM needs to perform its tasks effectively. Much has been written already

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Lost Chapter of Automate the Boring Stuff: Audio, Video, and Webcams in Python

news.ycombinator.com Al Sweigart 2025-07-30 19:45:45

The third edition of Automate the Boring Stuff with Python is now available for purchase or to read for free online. It has updated content and several new chapters, but one chapter that was left on the cutting room floor was "Working with Audio, Video, and Webcams". I present the 26-page rough draft chapter in this blog, where you can learn how to write Python code that records and plays multimedia content. Working with Audio, Video, and Webcams These days a smartphone is a portable film st

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XAI seeks up to $200B valuation in next fundraising

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-31 00:26:30

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Working through 'Writing A C Compiler'

news.ycombinator.com Working Through 2025-07-30 20:23:33

Some time ago I decided I wanted to create a c compiler for the Hack processor in the nand2tetris book. After several dead end attempts that I might describe later I found this book : Writing a C Compiler | No Starch Press I decided to work my way through it. I plan to do blog posts as I progress through it, probably chapter by chapter. I have emailed the author a couple of times and have got helpful timely replies! – thank you What makes the book so good? Step by step By the end of chapter

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Crypto Billionaire Justin Sun Buys Another $100 Million of Trump’s Memecoin

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-07-30 23:10:52

Justin Sun, the founder of the Tron blockchain, announced this week that he had purchased yet another $100 million of Donald Trump’s memecoin, $TRUMP. Sun already owns a substantial amount of the asset. The crypto mogul also announced that the coin would soon be tradable on his blockchain. All of this is complicated by the fact that Sun still appears to be bogged down in a civil fraud case brought against him by the Securities and Exchange Commission. In 2023, the SEC launched a lawsuit against

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Can a Linux laptop replace my MacBook? This one is off to a good start

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-07-30 21:45:12

ZDNET's key takeaways The Tuxedo Computers InfinityBook Pro 14 Gen 9 is available now on the official site for around $1,137. This laptop outperformed my expectations in every way, with a powerful CPU and a gorgeous display. It's manufactured in Europe, so use caution when selecting your keyboard during the order process. View now at Tuxedo Computers I love a good laptop or desktop that comes pre-installed with Linux. It's even better when said hardware is equal parts beauty and power. When G

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Show HN: I built a toy music controller for my 5yo with a coding agent

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-27 03:32:36

sonoserve Simple server for my 5 year old to control his Sonos Play:1 speaker using an M5Stack CardPuter v1.1 esp32s3 device. As a kid, I'd like to restart my favorite playlist so that I can listen to my favorite music. As a kid, I'd like to play my favorite tracks. The plan to implement these user stories is to put most of the logic in a Go executable and use the cardputer as a simple hotkey controller. Ideally he will be able to turn it on, wait for a green light, then push one button to d

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MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-30 21:45:15

MacPaint Art From The Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today I really enjoyed browsing the BMUG's CD-ROM and discovering earliy 80s art made in MacPaint, so I browsed all 18,000+ MacPaint images on Discmaster to see what gems I can unearth. Here is some what I found - I've got so many more cool icons/smaller drawings kept aside for the next time I'm bored and feel like making a blog post. Would be cool to try track down some of these artists and see what they're up to these days. If they could do thi

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Gear News of the Week: Samsung’s Trifold Promise, Ikea’s Sonos Split, and Hugging Face’s New Robot

wired.com Julian Chokkattu 2025-07-30 23:30:00

Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked event in Brooklyn earlier this week debuted seven new devices, from the Galaxy Z Fold7 to the Galaxy Watch8 series. But there weren't any surprises at the end, despite rumors that Samsung would unveil a trifold phone. Sensing disappointment, the company later confirmed that the phone is expected to land in 2025. “I expect we will be able to launch the trifold phone within this year,” TM Roh, head of Samsung's mobile business, told The Korea Times. The trifold phone, ru

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2-4 wire converters / hybrids (2009)

news.ycombinator.com Rod Elliott - Elliott Sound Products 2025-07-27 02:37:50

Elliott Sound Products AN-010 2-4 Wire Converters / Hybrids Rod Elliott (ESP) The analogue telephone system is commonly known as the PSTN - public switched telephone network, but is also called POTS - plain old telephone system. It is characterised by the operating voltage of 48V DC supplied from the exchange when the phone is 'on-hook' (not connected to the local exchange), and around 5-12V when 'off-hook' (during a call). It's a 2-wire system, with simultaneous bidirectional communication. D

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Lossless Float Image Compression

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