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Velocity of Money

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_of_money
1•gurjeet•30s ago•0 comments

Stop building automations. Start running your business

https://www.fluxtopus.com/automate-your-business
1•valboa•4m ago•1 comments

You can't QA your way to the frontier

https://www.scorecard.io/blog/you-cant-qa-your-way-to-the-frontier
1•gk1•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: PalettePoint – AI color palette generator from text or images

https://palettepoint.com
1•latentio•6m ago•0 comments

Robust and Interactable World Models in Computer Vision [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B4kkaGOozA
1•Anon84•10m ago•0 comments

Nestlé couldn't crack Japan's coffee market.Then they hired a child psychologist

https://twitter.com/BigBrainMkting/status/2019792335509541220
1•rmason•11m ago•0 comments

Notes for February 2-7

https://taoofmac.com/space/notes/2026/02/07/2000
2•rcarmo•13m ago•0 comments

Study confirms experience beats youthful enthusiasm

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/07/boomers_vs_zoomers_workplace/
2•Willingham•20m ago•0 comments

The Big Hunger by Walter J Miller, Jr. (1952)

https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/the-big-hunger
1•shervinafshar•21m ago•0 comments

The Genus Amanita

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/amanita.html
1•rolph•26m ago•0 comments

We have broken SHA-1 in practice

https://shattered.io/
7•mooreds•26m ago•2 comments

Ask HN: Was my first management job bad, or is this what management is like?

1•Buttons840•27m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How to Reduce Time Spent Crimping?

2•pinkmuffinere•29m ago•0 comments

KV Cache Transform Coding for Compact Storage in LLM Inference

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01815
1•walterbell•33m ago•0 comments

A quantitative, multimodal wearable bioelectronic device for stress assessment

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-67747-9
1•PaulHoule•35m ago•0 comments

Why Big Tech Is Throwing Cash into India in Quest for AI Supremacy

https://www.wsj.com/world/india/why-big-tech-is-throwing-cash-into-india-in-quest-for-ai-supremac...
1•saikatsg•35m ago•0 comments

How to shoot yourself in the foot – 2026 edition

https://github.com/aweussom/HowToShootYourselfInTheFoot
1•aweussom•36m ago•0 comments

Eight More Months of Agents

https://crawshaw.io/blog/eight-more-months-of-agents
4•archb•38m ago•0 comments

From Human Thought to Machine Coordination

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-digital-self/202602/from-human-thought-to-machine-coo...
1•walterbell•38m ago•0 comments

The new X API pricing must be a joke

https://developer.x.com/
1•danver0•39m ago•0 comments

Show HN: RMA Dashboard fast SAST results for monorepos (SARIF and triage)

https://rma-dashboard.bukhari-kibuka7.workers.dev/
1•bumahkib7•39m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Source code graphRAG for Java/Kotlin development based on jQAssistant

https://github.com/2015xli/jqassistant-graph-rag
1•artigent•44m ago•0 comments

Python Only Has One Real Competitor

https://mccue.dev/pages/2-6-26-python-competitor
4•dragandj•46m ago•0 comments

Tmux to Zellij (and Back)

https://www.mauriciopoppe.com/notes/tmux-to-zellij/
1•maurizzzio•46m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: How are you using specialized agents to accelerate your work?

1•otterley•48m ago•0 comments

Passing user_id through 6 services? OTel Baggage fixes this

https://signoz.io/blog/otel-baggage/
1•pranay01•49m ago•0 comments

DavMail Pop/IMAP/SMTP/Caldav/Carddav/LDAP Exchange Gateway

https://davmail.sourceforge.net/
1•todsacerdoti•49m ago•0 comments

Visual data modelling in the browser (open source)

https://github.com/sqlmodel/sqlmodel
1•Sean766•51m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Tharos – CLI to find and autofix security bugs using local LLMs

https://github.com/chinonsochikelue/tharos
1•fluantix•52m ago•0 comments

Oddly Simple GUI Programs

https://simonsafar.com/2024/win32_lights/
1•MaximilianEmel•52m ago•0 comments
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Automating Image Compression

https://www.ramijames.com/thoughts/on-automating-image-compression
19•ramijames•1w ago

Comments

blopker•1w ago
This post greatly over simplifies how many issues come up optimizing images. Also, the Github workflow doesn't commit the optimized images back to git, so this would have to run before packaging and would have to run on every image, not just new images added.

Ideally, images are compressed _before_ getting committed to git. The other issue is that compression can leave images looking broken. Any compressed image should be verified before deploying. Using lossless encoders is safer. However, even then, many optimizers will strip ICC profile data which will make colors look off or washed out (especially if the source is HDR).

Finally, use webp. It's supported everywhere and doesn't have all the downsides of png and jpg. It's not worth it to deploy these older formats anymore. Jpgxl is ever better, but support will take a while.

Anyway, I made an ImageOptim clone that supports webp encoding a while ago[0]. I usually just chuck any images in there first, then commit them.

[0]: https://github.com/blopker/alic

butvacuum•1w ago
There's one thing JPEG has the edge on- true Progressive loading.

If you're clever you can use fetch freqests to render a thumbnail based off the actual image by manually parsing the JPEG and stopping after some amount of detail. I'm more than a little suprised that no self-hosted photo solution uses this in any capacity (at least when I last checked).

blopker•1w ago
Google answers this question in the FAQ: https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/faq#does_webp_suppo...

But in my experience, webp is better enough that the whole file loads around the same time the jpg progressive loading kicks in. Given that progressive jpgs are larger than non progressive (so not a 'free' feature), jpg is just a waste of bandwidth at this point.

butvacuum•4d ago
That link doesn't address my point at all. If you have 1000 photos in a scrolling gallery there's no lossy format besides JPEG that allows you to grab just enough of the file to render a thumbnail. This has Major bandwidth, Storage, Compute, and UI responsivness implications.
tatersolid•1w ago
Where do you store high quality original images in case future edits or recompression with better codecs are needed? Generation loss is a thing.

I view the high-quality originals as “source” and resized+optimized images as “compiled” binaries. You generally want source in Git, not your compiled binaries.

ramijames•1w ago
I like this take. I tend to agree.
blopker•1w ago
As always, it really depends on what the source is. Often images are created with some software like Photoshop, would you commit the psd file to git? If you're a photographer, would you commit 20mb+ raw image files? Might make sense for a few images, but git is just not the right solution for binary data in general. Every modification has to duplicate the entire file. This makes working with the repo unpleasant very quickly.

In general, I recommend people back up binary files to cloud storage, like S3, and only commit optimized, deployment ready assets to git. There's also GitLFS, but it's clucky to use.

treavorpasan•1w ago
No trying to diss, but Figma literally has a drop down change the image quality thus the file size for PNG.

https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/articles/13402894554519-Expo...

ramijames•1w ago
You're looking at JPGs. PNGs do not have that dropdown.
TacticalCoder•1w ago
TFA for me gives the same link for the "Compressed using pngquant - 59,449 bytes" as the first image: "test1.png" and it's about 191 KiB.

I think it's a copy/paste error for replacing the link with test3.png instead of test1.png gives the correct file.

For the curious ones here are the result of compressing both losslessly with WEBP:

    195558 test1.png
    102750 test1.webp

     59449 test3.png
     38304 test3.webp
P.S: that picture is called a "test card": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_card