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

2026-06-21 | by Skye Jacobs | 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 | tags: rtk, github, large language models

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

2026-06-16 | 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

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Pgit: I Imported the Linux Kernel into PostgreSQL (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-05 | by Oliver Seifert | get PostgreSQL Linux Kernel Extension → | tags: linux kernel, postgresql, pgit

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Nvidia shows neural compression can cut VRAM usage from 6.5GB to 970MB (techspot.com)

2026-04-05 | get Nvidia Neural Compression Kit → | tags: nvidia, neural texture compression, vray

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Nvidia AI tech claims to slash gaming GPU memory usage by 85% with zero quality loss — Neural Texture Compression demo reveals stunning visual parity between 6.5GB of VRAM and 970MB (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-04 | by Hassam Nasir | get Nvidia Neural Texture Compression → | tags: nvidia, neural texture compression, vray

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Caltech Researchers Claim Radical Compression of High-Fidelity AI Models (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-03-31 | get AI Model Compression Toolkit → | tags: caltech, babak hassibi, large language model

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PDFsam 6.0 adds compression tools and PDF 2.0 support (techspot.com)

2026-03-31 | get PDFsam Enhanced → | tags: pdfsam, pdf 2.0, utf-8

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Testing DirectStorage with GPU decompression — do Blackwell GPUs have the upper hand? (tomshardware.com)

2026-03-27 | by Dan Mateescu | get NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 → | tags: directstorage, nvidia, gpu decompression

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Google unveils TurboQuant, a new AI memory compression algorithm — and yes, the internet is calling it ‘Pied Piper’ (techcrunch.com)

2026-03-25 | by Sarah Perez | get AI Memory Compression Device → | tags: google, turboquant, pied piper

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Show HN: Context Gateway – Compress agent context before it hits the LLM (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-13 | get LLM Context Compression Tool → | tags: llm prompt compression, context gateway, claude code

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OSHA probing fatality at Rivian warehouse (techcrunch.com)

2026-03-06 | by Sean O'Kane | get Electric Vehicle → | tags: osha, rivian, normal illinois

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What is Bluetooth 6.0? How the latest standard fixes audio problems we'd learned to live with (zdnet.com)

2026-02-27 | by Jada Jones | get Bluetooth → | tags: bluetooth 6.0, bluetooth sig, wireless connections