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Automating Image Compression

https://www.ramijames.com/thoughts/on-automating-image-compression
12•ramijames•2d ago

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blopker•45m 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

treavorpasan•7m 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...

Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-deepmind/project-genie/
380•meetpateltech•6h ago•191 comments

PlayStation 2 Recompilation Project Is Absolutely Incredible

https://redgamingtech.com/playstation-2-recompilation-project-is-absolutely-incredible/
160•croes•4h ago•58 comments

Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking

https://marginlab.ai/trackers/claude-code/
487•qwesr123•9h ago•252 comments

Grid: Forever free, local-first, browser-based 3D printing/CNC/laser slicer

https://grid.space/stem/
18•cyrusradfar•43m ago•1 comments

Drug trio found to block tumour resistance in pancreatic cancer

https://www.drugtargetreview.com/news/192714/drug-trio-found-to-block-tumour-resistance-in-pancre...
188•axiomdata316•7h ago•90 comments

Flameshot

https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot
79•OsrsNeedsf2P•3h ago•31 comments

Compressed Agents.md > Agent Skills

https://vercel.com/blog/agents-md-outperforms-skills-in-our-agent-evals
78•maximedupre•10h ago•37 comments

Where to Sleep in LAX

https://cadence.moe/blog/2025-12-30-where-to-sleep-in-lax
18•surprisetalk•6d ago•6 comments

Launch HN: AgentMail (YC S25) – An API that gives agents their own email inboxes

98•Haakam21•6h ago•120 comments

Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT

https://openai.com/index/retiring-gpt-4o-and-older-models/
117•rd•2h ago•162 comments

The Value of Things

https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2026/01/24/the-value-of-things/
43•vinhnx•4d ago•19 comments

Cutting Up Curved Things (With Math)

https://campedersen.com/tessellation
6•ecto•47m ago•0 comments

County pays $600k to pentesters it arrested for assessing courthouse security

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/01/county-pays-600000-to-pentesters-it-arrested-for-assessi...
232•MBCook•4h ago•119 comments

A lot of population numbers are fake

https://davidoks.blog/p/a-lot-of-population-numbers-are-fake
217•bookofjoe•9h ago•206 comments

Is the RAM shortage killing small VPS hosts?

https://www.fourplex.net/2026/01/29/is-the-ram-shortage-killing-small-vps-hosts/
90•neelc•7h ago•123 comments

Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/29/waymo-robotaxi-hits-a-child-near-an-elementary-school-in-santa-...
257•voxadam•9h ago•455 comments

Show HN: Kolibri, a DIY music club in Sweden

https://kolibrinkpg.com/
25•EastLondonCoder•7h ago•7 comments

The WiFi only works when it's raining (2024)

https://predr.ag/blog/wifi-only-works-when-its-raining/
17•epicalex•2h ago•3 comments

Reflex (YC W23) Senior Software Engineer Infra

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/reflex/jobs/Jcwrz7A-lead-software-engineer-infra
1•apetuskey•6h ago

EmulatorJS

https://github.com/EmulatorJS/EmulatorJS
80•avaer•6d ago•11 comments

My Mom and Dr. DeepSeek (2025)

https://restofworld.org/2025/ai-chatbot-china-sick/
108•kieto•4h ago•72 comments

How to choose colors for your CLI applications (2023)

https://blog.xoria.org/terminal-colors/
139•kruuuder•8h ago•79 comments

Box64 Expands into RISC-V and LoongArch territory

https://boilingsteam.com/box64-expands-into-risc-v-and-loong-arch-territory/
29•ekianjo•4d ago•2 comments

Deep dive into Turso, the "SQLite rewrite in Rust"

https://kerkour.com/turso-sqlite
93•unsolved73•8h ago•88 comments

Run Clawdbot/Moltbot on Cloudflare with Moltworker

https://blog.cloudflare.com/moltworker-self-hosted-ai-agent/
127•ghostwriternr•8h ago•45 comments

The Hallucination Defense

https://niyikiza.com/posts/hallucination-defense/
33•niyikiza•3h ago•79 comments

US cybersecurity chief leaked sensitive government files to ChatGPT: Report

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/us-cybersecurity-chief-leaked-sensitive-government-files-to...
364•randycupertino•7h ago•189 comments

AI's impact on engineering jobs may be different than expected

https://semiengineering.com/ais-impact-on-engineering-jobs-may-be-different-than-initial-projecti...
73•rbanffy•5h ago•134 comments

Apple buys Israeli startup Q.ai

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/29/apple-buys-israeli-startup-q-ai-as-the-ai-race-heats-up/
77•ishener•2h ago•28 comments

Usenet personality

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet_personality
60•mellosouls•3d ago•28 comments