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OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III

https://openciv3.org/
576•klaussilveira•10h ago•167 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
889•xnx•16h ago•540 comments

How we made geo joins 400× faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
91•matheusalmeida•1d ago•20 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
18•helloplanets•4d ago•9 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
21•videotopia•4d ago•0 comments

Show HN: Look Ma, No Linux: Shell, App Installer, Vi, Cc on ESP32-S3 / BreezyBox

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
197•isitcontent•11h ago•24 comments

Monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
199•dmpetrov•11h ago•91 comments

Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use

https://vecti.com
307•vecti•13h ago•136 comments

Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
352•aktau•17h ago•175 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
350•ostacke•17h ago•91 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
452•todsacerdoti•18h ago•228 comments

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads

https://mirageos.org/blog/delimcc-vs-lwt
20•romes•4d ago•2 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
79•quibono•4d ago•18 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-vault-prolok.html
52•kmm•4d ago•3 comments

Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
253•eljojo•13h ago•153 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
388•lstoll•17h ago•263 comments

Was Benoit Mandelbrot a hedgehog or a fox?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01122
5•bikenaga•3d ago•1 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
230•i5heu•13h ago•175 comments

Zlob.h 100% POSIX and glibc compatible globbing lib that is faste and better

https://github.com/dmtrKovalenko/zlob
12•neogoose•3h ago•7 comments

Show HN: R3forth, a ColorForth-inspired language with a tiny VM

https://github.com/phreda4/r3
68•phreda4•10h ago•12 comments

Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo

https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/female-asian-elephant-calf-born-smithsonians-national-zoo-an...
24•gmays•6h ago•6 comments

Why I Joined OpenAI

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2026-02-07/why-i-joined-openai.html
116•SerCe•7h ago•94 comments

I spent 5 years in DevOps – Solutions engineering gave me what I was missing

https://infisical.com/blog/devops-to-solutions-engineering
135•vmatsiiako•16h ago•59 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
268•surprisetalk•3d ago•36 comments

Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server

https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-the-developer-knowledge-api-and-mcp-server/
42•gfortaine•8h ago•13 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
168•limoce•3d ago•87 comments

I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams

https://kirkville.com/i-now-assume-that-all-ads-on-apple-news-are-scams/
1039•cdrnsf•20h ago•431 comments

FORTH? Really!?

https://rescrv.net/w/2026/02/06/associative
60•rescrv•18h ago•22 comments

Show HN: ARM64 Android Dev Kit

https://github.com/denuoweb/ARM64-ADK
14•denuoweb•1d ago•2 comments

Show HN: Smooth CLI – Token-efficient browser for AI agents

https://docs.smooth.sh/cli/overview
88•antves•1d ago•63 comments
Open in hackernews

Make images smaller using best-in-class codecs, right in the browser

https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/squoosh
48•keepamovin•2mo ago

Comments

Jaxan•1mo ago
I’ve been using the app ImageOptim for this use case (a stand-alone app, not something in the browser). Can recommend!
vjshah•1mo ago
Squoosh appears to support more modern formats (webp/avif) than imageoptim, so it should produce much smaller files
susam•1mo ago
+1 Whenever I create a favicon.png, I always run it through ImageOptim and I consistently get an optimised PNG that is about 30% to 40% smaller than the original.
naet•1mo ago
Imageoptim has been holding it down for some years when I need to quickly make an image smaller size.
Trung0246•1mo ago
Surprisingly this also remove synthID.
qingcharles•1mo ago
I just tested it with a PNG from Nano Banana, recompressed to JPG and even reduced palette to 256 colors. Gemini still says the image contains SynthID.
Trung0246•1mo ago
Interesting, maybe mine is a little bit too abstract.
ranger_danger•1mo ago
What is synthID?
HelloUsername•1mo ago
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26992277

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21912480

karim79•1mo ago
We made a SaaS (and I'm sure I'll get shit for this). We have avif/webP/heic and JXL is almost there:

https://kraken.io/web-interface

lionkor•1mo ago
Is it successful? I always wondered who uses this and pays for it -- is it sustainable? How much work is it to upkeep, maintain, etc?
karim79•1mo ago
Depends on how you'd define success. It has been profitable since 2014. A few millions in revenue.

Upkeep is another story when you have thousands of customers using the API. It's not so easy to keep everyone happy, as image quality is highly subjective there's a quality tolerance spectrum which for the life of me I will never understand.

erenburakalic•1mo ago
+1 That’s cool. That already covers a lot
busymom0•1mo ago
Why does setting the quality to 100% make the resulting image size bigger than original? And if there's a reason, I think it should simply just return the original smaller image in those cases.
paverama•1mo ago
I'd like a CLI tool with the same features to batch-compress images.
braebo•1mo ago
You can use cwebp directly, that’s what squoosh cli used for webp before it was abandoned. Or imagemagick.
skylovescoffee•1mo ago
Piggybacking off this, I made a fork of Squoosh called Squoosh CLI which turns this into a CLI tool.

https://github.com/sbcinnovation/squoosh-cli

Windows support may be iffy, any PR's are welcome.

seabass•1mo ago
I love squoosh! It’s been one of the few PWAs I have installed and actually use regularly.

Does anyone know if their optimization methods still best-in-class these days? It’s been good enough for all my practical needs, but I know it’s been around for a while and there may be better techniques for some file types now.

StoneAndSky•1mo ago
I love Squoosh. I have used it since it launched.

However, IIRC, Squoosh was built largely by Surma and Jake; or maybe they were just the "face" of the project. Either way, at one point it even had a CLI.

Since their departure from Google, the CLI project was abandoned and it feels like the web app is as well.

As is usual Google things, I think it's a matter of time until some PM discovers squoosh.app, and asks "What's this?" and then the thing gets killed.

Perhaps this HN post will be the thing that does it.

qingcharles•1mo ago
Still no support for Google's own Jpegli:

https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/squoosh/issues/1408