GoKawiil - Tech News

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What Is AI Model Distillation? (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: ai model distillation, model compression, deep learning

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Gamers compress 80TB map of Minecraft's oldest anarchy server down to a 15TB download — custom .zvcr compression format and 28 bots map 1 million blocks on infamous 2b2t server (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-30 | by Zhiye Liu | tags: minecraft, 2b2t, zvcr compression

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Does Speaking to Agents Like Cavemen Save 65% of Tokens? We Test (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-28 | tags: claude code, caveman, jetbrains

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How JPEG works: Interactively explore JPEG's lossy compression methods (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-27 | tags: jpeg, lossy compression, images

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Regressive JPEGs (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-18 | tags: jpeg, jpeg scans, ycbcr

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Show HN: misa77 - a codec that decodes 2x faster than LZ4 (at better ratios) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-15 | tags: compression, mb mb, mb silesia

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Optimizing Lua string literals to save 400 bytes (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-13 | tags: lua, computercraft, compression

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Autoresearch, Claude and Constrained Optimization (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-12 | tags: agent, code, compression

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Johnson Thermoelectric Energy Converter (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-03 | tags: compression, compression stage, energy

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Can you build a recognizable World Map in under 500 bytes? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-01 | tags: bytes, characters, compression

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HDMI 2.2 doubles bandwidth to 96Gbps, enabling uncompressed 4K at 240Hz (techspot.com)

2026-06-21 | by Skye Jacobs | get HDMI 2.1 Cable → | tags: hdmi 2.2, hdmi forum, display stream compression

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The Token Compression Illusion: Why I'm Skeptical of RTK (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-18 | by Przemek Mroczek | get Token Compression Illusion Book → | tags: rtk, github, large language models

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Data Compression Explained (2012) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-16 | get Data Compression Book → | tags: information theory, data compression, lossless

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Data Compression Explained (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-16 | get Data Compression Book → | tags: data compression, matt mahoney, dell

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How TimescaleDB compresses time-series data (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-15 | by Aleksander Roszig | get TimescaleDB Compression Extension → | tags: timescaledb, hypercore engine, time-series data

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Image Compression (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-14 | get JPEGmini Image Compressor → | tags: image compression, file formats, lossy compression

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Context compression finally works in production: new research cuts LLM input 16x without the accuracy hit (venturebeat.com)

2026-06-11 | get LLM Context Compression Tool → | tags: compression, context, decoder

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A Trillion Characters (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-29 | get 8TB External Hard Drive → | tags: datastar, server-sent events, sse

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All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-27 | tags: cooking, human, megabytes

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Barocal can cool your food and drink by squeezing a hunk of plastic crystals (techcrunch.com)

2026-05-04 | by Tim De Chant | get Barocal Plastic Cooling Kit → | tags: barocal, vapor compression, xavier moya

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Indie App Spotlight: ‘This Day’ turns photo cleanup into a simple daily habit (9to5mac.com)

2026-05-02 | by Michael Burkhardt | get Photo Organizer App → | tags: icloud, this day, photo decluttering

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I benchmarked Claude Code's caveman plugin against "be brief." (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-29 | get Claude Code Plugin → | tags: claude, caveman, be brief

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Generating a color spectrum for an image (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-15 | by Amanda Hinton | get Color Spectrum LED Light → | tags: median cut, image compression, color spectrum

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Benchmarking Nvidia's RTX Neural Texture Compression tech that can reduce VRAM usage by over 80% (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-11 | by Dan Mateescu | get Nvidia RTX Neural Texture Book → | tags: nvidia, rtx, neural texture compression

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Intel introduces its own Neural Compression technology with a fallback mode that works on GPUs without dedicated AI cores — early performance is on the level of Nvidia NTC (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-07 | by Aaron Klotz | get Intel Neural Compression Kit → | tags: intel, neural compression, nvidia ntc

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Your Business Is Probably Overspending on Data Storage. Here’s How AI Fixes That. (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-04-07 | by Chongwei Chen | get Seagate IronWolf NAS HDD → | tags: data storage, entrepreneur, zettabytes

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H.264 licensing fees could jump from $100,000 to $4.5 million for streaming platforms (techspot.com)

2026-04-07 | get H.264 Codec Licensing Kit → | tags: h.264, licensing fees, streaming platforms

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Intel joins Nvidia in pushing neural texture compression, can shrink game assets by up to 18x (techspot.com)

2026-04-07 | get Nvidia GeForce RTX 40 Series → | tags: intel, nvidia, neural texture compression

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Intel's new AI compression tech can significantly shrink game texture sizes and reduce VRAM use (techspot.com)

2026-04-07 | get NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 → | tags: intel, tsnc, ai compression

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I imported the full Linux kernel git history into pgit (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-05 | by Oliver Seifert | get Linux Kernel Source Code Book → | tags: linux kernel, pgit, postgresql