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We tested super-resolution pre-filter for LPR OCR. It did nothing

https://www.wink.co/documentation/Neural-Super-Resolution-Pre-Filter-LPR-2026

5•xmichael909•2h ago

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xmichael909•2h ago

Quick context: SR-as-a-pre-filter for ALPR gets a lot of attention right now there's a whole ICPR 2026 competition track on low-res plate recognition; so we actually testing it on our production lpr data.

mirsadm•9m ago

Have you tried classic CV SR algorithms (eg SR from multiple nearby frames)? Single frame SR seems unlikely to be useful.

Deterministic Fully-Static Whole-Binary Translation Without Heuristics

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08419

93•matt_d•2h ago•15 comments

Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers

https://github.com/FULU-Foundation/OrcaSlicer-bambulab

343•Murfalo•8h ago•139 comments

The vi family

https://lpar.ATH0.com/posts/2026/05/the-vi-family/

97•hggh•6d ago•34 comments

Googlebook

https://googlebook.google/

721•tambourine_man•13h ago•1203 comments

Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model

https://github.com/cactus-compute/needle

393•HenryNdubuaku•12h ago•137 comments

How to make your text look futuristic (2016)

https://typesetinthefuture.com/2016/02/18/futuristic/

304•_vaporwave_•10h ago•36 comments

Kraftwerk's radical 1976 track

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20260511-kraftwerks-radical-1976-track-radioactivity-became-a...

123•tcp_handshaker•7h ago•50 comments

CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq

https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/2026q2/018471.html

289•chizhik-pyzhik•12h ago•133 comments

Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise

https://www.nair.sh/guides-and-opinions/communicating-your-expertise/why-senior-developers-fail-t...

509•nilirl•15h ago•216 comments

Traceway: MIT-licensed observability stack you can self-host in ~90s

https://github.com/tracewayapp/traceway

65•sebakubisz•1d ago•4 comments

My graduation cap runs Rust

https://ericswpark.com/blog/2026/2026-05-12-my-graduation-cap-runs-rust/

136•ericswpark•6h ago•34 comments

When "idle" isn't idle: how a Linux kernel optimization became a QUIC bug

https://blog.cloudflare.com/quic-death-spiral-fix/

66•sbulaev•6h ago•4 comments

Zero-native – Build native desktop apps with web UI

https://zero-native.dev

29•gedy•5h ago•21 comments

Referer Reality

https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/referer/

31•tobr•2d ago•6 comments

Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets

https://blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/on-rendering-the-sky-sunsets-and-planets/

456•ibobev•17h ago•38 comments

Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol

https://duckdb.org/2026/05/12/quack-remote-protocol

256•aduffy•12h ago•53 comments

Tell NYT, Atlantic, USA Today to keep Wayback Machine

https://www.savethearchive.com/newsleaders/

291•doener•7h ago•84 comments

The Future of Obsidian Plugins

https://obsidian.md/blog/future-of-plugins/

352•xz18r•14h ago•135 comments

Scrcpy v4.0

https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy/releases/tag/v4.0

115•xnx•9h ago•19 comments

Fc, a lossless compressor for floating-point streams

https://github.com/xtellect/fc

49•enduku•2d ago•10 comments

Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era

https://deepmind.google/blog/ai-pointer/

181•devhouse•13h ago•150 comments

Up in Smoke

https://thebaffler.com/odds-and-ends/the-profession-that-does-not-exist-symposium

9•NaOH•2d ago•0 comments

Starship V3

https://www.spacex.com/updates#starship-v3

182•fprog•5h ago•220 comments

As researchers age, they produce less disruptive work

https://nautil.us/is-this-why-science-advances-one-funeral-at-a-time-1280650

54•Brajeshwar•13h ago•52 comments

Lanzaboote – NixOS Secure Boot

https://x86.lol/generic/2022/11/26/lanzaboote.html

77•evilmonkey19•3d ago•6 comments

Show HN: Agentic interface for mainframes and COBOL

https://www.hypercubic.ai/hopper

68•sai18•13h ago•39 comments

Launch HN: Voker (YC S24) – Analytics for AI Agents

https://voker.ai

51•ttpost•14h ago•19 comments

Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/bambu-lab-abusing-open-source-social-contract/

1196•rubenbe•15h ago•382 comments

Foucault's Order of Things Explained with Trading Cards [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TbHYjGvS68

29•surprisetalk•1d ago•21 comments

When life gives you lemons, write better error messages

https://wix-ux.com/when-life-gives-you-lemons-write-better-error-messages-46c5223e1a2f

141•luispa•4d ago•50 comments