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Blogging service TypePad is shutting down and taking all blog content with it

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-22 05:46:17

In the olden days, publishing a site on the Internet required that you figure out hosting and have at least some experience with HTML, CSS, and the other languages that make the Internet work. But the emergence of blogging and "Web 2.0" sites in the late '90s and early 2000s gave rise to a constellation of services that would offer to host all of your thoughts without requiring you to build the website part of your website. Many of those services are still around in some form—someone who really

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One-time WordPress competitor TypePad ends its slide into obscurity by shutting down

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-22 10:46:17

In the olden days, publishing a site on the Internet required that you figure out hosting and have at least some experience with HTML, CSS, and the other languages that make the Internet work. But the emergence of blogging and "Web 2.0" sites in the late '90s and early 2000s gave rise to a constellation of services that would offer to host all of your thoughts without requiring you to build the website part of your website. Many of those services are still around in some form—someone who really

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Early blogging service Typepad is shutting down for good

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-22 18:00:33

Typepad, a blogging service that launched in the same year as WordPress, has announced that it's shutting down on September 30. "We have made the difficult decision to discontinue Typepad," its team said in a post. Several major publications used it as a backend for their websites in its early years, and it even released an app in 2008, but it soon fell behind WordPress in popularity. The service stopped accepting new signups sometime in 2020 but continued supporting its old customers. One user

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Prediction-Encoded Pixels image format

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-29 06:05:38

Prediction-Encoded Pixels This format is specifically designed to be for low-color pixel art (<=16 colors works best, up to 256 colors is supported). It uses "Prediction by Partial Matching, Order-2" compression, which is able to compress packed-palette-indices smaller than GIF, PNG, and QOI, while sacrificing a bit of time. It's 2-10x slower than GIF/PNG/QOI (depending on the image), but often compresses the image 20-50% smaller than GIF/PNG (and multiple-times smaller than QOI). If you care

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Gear News of the Week: iPhone 17 May Be a Month Away, and Sonos to Raise Prices

wired.com Julian Chokkattu 2025-11-24 23:30:00

If rumors are correct, Apple's annual iPhone event will take place exactly a month from today, on September 9. That's according to a German website citing internal documents from German mobile phone providers, but the date was also previously suggested by Bloomberg's Apple whisperer, Mark Gurman. Leaks about Apple's upcoming smartphone lineup have heated up in recent weeks. Apple is expected to debut four iPhones as usual, with one key distinction. The “Plus” iPhone no longer exists, replaced b

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Go allocation probe

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-31 14:45:45

Published 2025-07-18 The profiling tools in go will tell you where allocations happened in the code, but won't record the type of the allocation. I suspected that in the code I was looking at, some specific types were causing a lot of allocation but that those allocations were spread over many locations. So with the help of Matt Knight I wrote perhaps the most appallingly fragile code I have ever written - go_allocation_probe. Every heap allocation in go afaict goes through a single function -

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Go Allocation Probe

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-01 02:45:45

Published 2025-07-18 The profiling tools in go will tell you where allocations happened in the code, but won't record the type of the allocation. I suspected that in the code I was looking at, some specific types were causing a lot of allocation but that those allocations were spread over many locations. So with the help of Matt Knight I wrote perhaps the most appallingly fragile code I have ever written - go_allocation_probe. Every heap allocation in go afaict goes through a single function -

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Florida Cat Named Pepper Brings Home Never-Before-Seen Virus—for the Second Time

gizmodo.com Natalia Mesa 2026-01-18 18:00:40

Last year, Pepper, a pet cat who roams the backyards of Gainesville, Florida, helped a scientist discover a new viral strain. Now, the furry feline is back at it again. In a new study, scientists have once again discovered an exotic virus infecting a dead rodent that had been caught by Pepper. This time around, Pepper’s furry hunting trophy helped researchers pinpoint an unidentified strain of orthoreovirus, a type of virus that infects humans and other mammals. The findings, and the virus’s co

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Publishing Pepys

news.ycombinator.com Kate Loveman 2026-02-09 06:21:06

Two hundred years ago this month, Samuel Pepys’s diary was published to great acclaim. Readers of the first edition in 1825 relished Pepys’s ‘honest’ observations and ‘private anecdotes’. While writing his journal in the 1660s, Pepys had worked hard to keep it secret. He knew he was placing his livelihood at risk by recording seditious criticisms of his superiors, along with details of his own bribe-taking and sexually explicit accounts of his ‘amours’. There was much that, when writing, he did

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Fun with uv and PEP 723

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-21 16:41:26

Fun with uv and PEP 723 June 24, 2025 For the longest time, I have been frustrated with Python because I couldn’t use it for one-off scripts. I had to first ensure it was running in an environment where it could find the right Python version and the dependencies installed. That is now a thing of the past. If you are not a Pythonista (or one possibly living under a rock), uv is an extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust. uv also provides this nifty tool called uvx (k

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Toxic Proteins for Drug Discovery

news.ycombinator.com Asimov Press 2026-03-04 00:04:22

Noah Whiteman, professor of evolutionary biology at UC Berkeley, writes about how toxins are repurposed into medicines for Issue 06. Whiteman’s recent book is called “Most Delicious Poison.” Ella Watkins-Dulaney for Asimov Press. When you hear the word "poison," perhaps you picture a Victorian-era cobalt bottle labeled "NOT TO BE TAKEN" or the iconic pictogram of a leering skull and crossbones. What probably does not come to mind, however, are the dried white beans in your kitchen pantry, the

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I Saw This Cartoon Gumshoe Shooter in Action. It's a Video Game Miracle

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-14 00:00:00

Mouse: P.I. for Hire is the kind of fun video game miracle of making wild ideas into reality. What started as a throwaway "what if" post on social media about a first-person shooter styled like a classic Betty Boop-era cartoon has turned into a full video game I saw being played in front of me at Summer Game Fest -- and the gumshoe gunplay game is due out later this year. In Australian publisher PlaySide's private booth tucked into a corner of the Summer Game Fest grounds in Los Angeles, I sat

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I Saw Mouse: P.I. for Hire Gameplay: It's Got Cartoon Gumshoe Gunplay Aplenty

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-14 15:00:09

Mouse: P.I. for Hire is the kind of fun video game miracle of making wild ideas into reality. What started as a throwaway "what if" post on social media about a first-person shooter styled like a classic Betty Boop-era cartoon has turned into a full video game I saw being played in front of me at Summer Game Fest that's due out later this year. In Australian publisher PlaySide's private booth tucked into a corner of the Summer Game Fest grounds in Los Angeles, I sat down with the game's lead pr

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There's more to Mouse: PI for Hire than cartoon violence

engadget.com Unknown 2026-03-17 13:30:44

Mouse: PI for Hire is a lot deeper than I initially assumed. When the game first caught buzz in May 2023 with an early teaser populated by placeholder assets, I didn’t understand the hype. The art style was definitely cool — Mouse is a black-and-white first-person shooter inspired by 1930s rubber hose cartoons, featuring bipedal rodents dressed like mobsters — but without any information about the gameplay loop, mechanics or narrative direction, I remained unmoved. After seeing Mouse in action

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This New Drug Could Help End the HIV Epidemic—but US Funding Cuts Are Killing Its Rollout

wired.com David Cox 2025-11-10 17:26:30

After a lifetime on the frontiers of the fight against HIV, Linda-Gail Bekker could finally see the end of the epidemic in sight. For decades, HIV experts had dreamed of an elusive vaccine to block the ongoing chain of infections, which still sees more than 1 million people worldwide contract the virus annually. Bekker, a 62-year-old medical professor from the University of Cape Town, had helped identify a drug that could do just that. But now, thanks to the Trump administration’s executive ord

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Latest Tech News

Blogging service TypePad is shutting down and taking all blog content with it

One-time WordPress competitor TypePad ends its slide into obscurity by shutting down

Early blogging service Typepad is shutting down for good

Prediction-Encoded Pixels image format

Gear News of the Week: iPhone 17 May Be a Month Away, and Sonos to Raise Prices

Go allocation probe

Go Allocation Probe

Florida Cat Named Pepper Brings Home Never-Before-Seen Virus—for the Second Time

Publishing Pepys

Fun with uv and PEP 723

Toxic Proteins for Drug Discovery

I Saw This Cartoon Gumshoe Shooter in Action. It's a Video Game Miracle

I Saw Mouse: P.I. for Hire Gameplay: It's Got Cartoon Gumshoe Gunplay Aplenty

There's more to Mouse: PI for Hire than cartoon violence

This New Drug Could Help End the HIV Epidemic—but US Funding Cuts Are Killing Its Rollout

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