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8M Users' AI Conversations Sold for Profit by "Privacy" Extensions

https://www.koi.ai/blog/urban-vpn-browser-extension-ai-conversations-data-collection
74•takira•50m ago•18 comments

Quill OS is an open-source, fully-functional standalone OS for Kobo's eReaders

https://quill-os.org/
133•Curiositry•3h ago•40 comments

Native vs. emulation: World of Warcraft game performance on Snapdragon X Elite

https://rkblog.dev/posts/pc-hardware/pc-on-arm/x86_versus_arm_native_game/
21•geekman7473•4h ago•5 comments

Ideas aren't getting harder to find

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/12-books/ideas-arent-getting-harder-to-find
85•mitchbob•3h ago•36 comments

Nature's many attempts to evolve a Nostr

https://newsletter.squishy.computer/p/natures-many-attempts-to-evolve-a
133•fiatjaf•5d ago•74 comments

“Are you the one?” is free money

https://blog.owenlacey.dev/posts/are-you-the-one-is-free-money/
201•samwho•3d ago•44 comments

Economics of Orbital vs. Terrestrial Data Centers

https://andrewmccalip.com/space-datacenters
55•flinner•5h ago•98 comments

Essential Semiconductor Physics [pdf]

https://nanohub.org/resources/43623/download/Essential_Semiconductor_Physics.pdf
126•akshatjiwan•2d ago•6 comments

SoundCloud confirms breach after member data stolen, VPN access disrupted

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/soundcloud-confirms-breach-after-member-data-stole...
50•technonerd•2h ago•3 comments

Rollstack (YC W23) is hiring multiple software engineers (TypeScript) US/Canada

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/rollstack-2/jobs/QPqpb1n-software-engineer-typescript-us-ca...
1•yjallouli•2h ago

Umbrel – Personal Cloud

https://umbrel.com
141•oldfuture•8h ago•85 comments

Ford kills the All-Electric F-150

https://www.wired.com/story/ford-kills-electric-f-150-lightning-for-hybrid/
235•sacred-rat•6h ago•363 comments

Understanding carriage

https://seths.blog/2025/12/understanding-carriage/
26•herbertl•5d ago•6 comments

In Defense of Matlab Code

https://runmat.org/blog/in-defense-of-matlab-whiteboard-style-code
88•finbarr1987•3d ago•86 comments

The Bob Dylan concert for just one person

https://www.flaggingdown.com/p/the-bob-dylan-concert-for-just-one
44•NaOH•3h ago•7 comments

A kernel bug froze my machine: Debugging an async-profiler deadlock

https://questdb.com/blog/async-profiler-kernel-bug/
62•bluestreak•7h ago•14 comments

Chafa: Terminal Graphics for the 21st Century

https://hpjansson.org/chafa/
116•birdculture•9h ago•20 comments

Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Prices

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/secret-documents-show-pepsi-and-walmart
250•connor11528•6h ago•81 comments

Cosmic-ray bath in a past supernova gives birth to Earth-like planets

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adx7892
85•toomuchtodo•10h ago•30 comments

Light intensity steers molecular assemblies into 1D, 2D or 3D structures

https://phys.org/news/2025-11-intensity-molecular-1d-2d-3d.html
3•PaulHoule•5d ago•0 comments

Fix HDMI-CEC weirdness with a Raspberry Pi and a $7 cable

https://johnlian.net/posts/hdmi-cec/
205•jlian•6h ago•104 comments

The appropriate amount of effort is zero

https://expandingawareness.org/blog/the-appropriate-amount-of-effort-is-zero/
69•gmays•7h ago•44 comments

John Updike Wrote It All Down

https://newrepublic.com/article/201598/john-updike-wrote
7•samclemens•6d ago•0 comments

Upcoming Changes to Let's Encrypt Certificates

https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/upcoming-changes-to-let-s-encrypt-certificates/243873
253•schmuckonwheels•8h ago•209 comments

JetBlue flight averts mid-air collision with US Air Force jet

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/jetblue-flight-averts-mid-air-collision-with-us-air-force-...
151•divbzero•5h ago•66 comments

We are discontinuing the dark web report

https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/16767242?hl=en
106•satertek•12h ago•35 comments

I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me

https://marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-i-dont-write-like-chatgpt
585•florian_s•15h ago•383 comments

“Super secure” messaging app leaks everyone's phone number

https://ericdaigle.ca/posts/super-secure-maga-messaging-app-leaks-everyones-phone-number/
534•e_daigle•8h ago•252 comments

Carrier Landing in Top Gun for the NES

https://relaxing.run/blag/posts/top-gun-landing/
358•todsacerdoti•13h ago•150 comments

Problems with D-Bus on the Linux desktop

https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2025-dbusSucks
283•LorenDB•8h ago•204 comments
Open in hackernews

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

https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/squoosh
46•keepamovin•1w ago

Comments

Jaxan•9h ago
I’ve been using the app ImageOptim for this use case (a stand-alone app, not something in the browser). Can recommend!
vjshah•8h ago
Squoosh appears to support more modern formats (webp/avif) than imageoptim, so it should produce much smaller files
susam•8h 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.
Trung0246•8h ago
Surprisingly this also remove synthID.
qingcharles•8h 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•8h ago
Interesting, maybe mine is a little bit too abstract.
ranger_danger•5h ago
What is synthID?
HelloUsername•8h ago
Previous discussions:

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

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

karim79•8h 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•8h 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•7h 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•8h ago
+1 That’s cool. That already covers a lot
busymom0•8h 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•8h ago
I'd like a CLI tool with the same features to batch-compress images.
skylovescoffee•8h 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•8h 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•8h 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•8h ago
Still no support for Google's own Jpegli:

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