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Journey to JPEG XL: open-source experiments shaped the future of image coding

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2026/06/journey-to-jpeg-xl-how-open-source-experiments-shaped-the-future-of-image-coding.html

17•ledoge•1h ago

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rowbin•1h ago

That's rich coming from the company that tried to kill it. The audacity...

rowbin•1h ago

> Safari (2023) led among major browsers, while Firefox and Chrome currently maintain experimental support.

magicalist•44m ago

> That's rich coming from the company that tried to kill it

This post is written by three of the authors of the JPEG XL spec, implementors of the reference and rust implementations of libjxl, and...longtime google employees.

orbital-decay•31m ago

From what I can tell, it's written by Gemini

karim79•1m ago

Yup just a little bit too much em dashes.

lousken•47m ago

Out of experimental when?

Mindless2112•34m ago

> In this Gemini-reconstructed scene, ...

I'm generally pretty pro-AI, but I find this icky. Of course, I wouldn't have noticed except the whiteboard drawing seemed not quite right, so I'll probably be fooled in the future.

zerobees•26m ago

Based on what I've heard, Google is monitoring per-org usage and strongly / incessantly encouraging teams to experiment with the technology, so a lot of tokens get spent on pointless stuff like that. The preceding diagram, which is needlessly busy and blurry, appears to be AI-generated too.

markdog12•16m ago

Came here to say the same thing. Why add this fake image?

neuroelectron•34m ago

AI slop article

yboris•16m ago

Weird they don't name Jon Sneyers - a person pivotal in creation of JPEG XL

Here's a blog post by him: https://cloudinary.com/blog/2026-the-year-of-jpeg-xl

Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language

https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2026/06/03/elixir-v1-20-0-released/

466•cloud8421•4h ago•159 comments

Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/introducing-gemma-4-12b/

634•rvz•7h ago•265 comments

I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis

https://burntsushi.net/encephalitis/

446•Tomte•9h ago•124 comments

DaVinci Resolve 21

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/whatsnew

367•pentagrama•9h ago•175 comments

Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang

https://www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2026/06/no-artificial-intelligence-is-not-conscious/687378/

155•lordleft•5h ago•224 comments

Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/3/uber-caps-usage/

333•pdyc•11h ago•423 comments

Ableton Extensions SDK

https://www.ableton.com/en/live/extensions/

46•bennett_dev•3h ago•18 comments

Gooey: A GPU-accelerated UI framework for Zig

https://github.com/duanebester/gooey

126•ksec•6h ago•40 comments

Pwnd Blaster: Hacking your PC using your speaker without ever touching it

https://blog.nns.ee/2026/06/03/katana-badusb/

632•xx_ns•12h ago•99 comments

A Man Who Reads Books for a Living (One Every Two Days)

https://lithub.com/the-man-who-reads-books-for-a-living-one-every-two-days/

55•gmays•3h ago•26 comments

Journey to JPEG XL: open-source experiments shaped the future of image coding

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2026/06/journey-to-jpeg-xl-how-open-source-experiments-shaped-t...

17•ledoge•1h ago•12 comments

A Post-Quantum Future for Let's Encrypt

https://letsencrypt.org/2026/06/03/pq-certs

213•SGran•8h ago•110 comments

ESP32-S31

https://www.espressif.com/en/products/socs/esp32-s31

239•volemo•7h ago•136 comments

Meteor Explodes over Massachusetts

https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/meteor-explodes-over-massachusetts-what-we-know-and-where-it...

16•1970-01-01•2d ago•3 comments

Self-hosted dev sandboxes with preview URLs (Docker, Go, no K8s)

https://github.com/tastyeffectco/sandboxes

39•tastyeffectco•4h ago•5 comments

Show HN: Mnemo – local-first AI memory layer for any LLM (Rust, SQLite,petgraph)

https://github.com/zaydmulani09/mnemo

22•zaydmulani•3h ago•10 comments

Stop Killing Games

https://jxself.org/stop-killing-games.shtml

175•amcclure•2d ago•160 comments

Launch HN: Hyper (YC P26) – Company brain to power agentic development

47•shalinshah•6h ago•49 comments

Brume is a 24-voice multi-timbral desktop synth for the CM5

https://brume.aftertone.co/

41•oceanwaves•4h ago•17 comments

Skyvern (YC S23) Is Hiring Open-Source Loving DevRel Engineers

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/skyvern/jobs/1qRTlVx-founding-developer-marketing-open-sour...

1•suchintan•6h ago

Embryos shape their limbs: a key discovery of "genetic brakes"

https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2026/06/02/how-embryos-shape-their-limbs-a-key-discover...

46•gmays•6h ago•1 comments

Rootshell: A new E2EE email service hosted in Iceland

https://rootshell.is

39•sc0rt•4h ago•33 comments

A Mathematician's Lament – Paul Lockhart (2002) [pdf]

https://worrydream.com/refs/Lockhart_2002_-_A_Mathematician%27s_Lament.pdf

13•xeonmc•2h ago•1 comments

MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/03/macbook-neo-production-doubled-says-kuo/

308•tosh•7h ago•339 comments

Book Dedications

https://walzr.com/dedications

32•walz•1d ago•9 comments

Mathematicians issue warning as AI rapidly gains ground

https://www.science.org/content/article/mathematicians-issue-warning-ai-rapidly-gains-ground

154•pseudolus•13h ago•201 comments

Angular v22

https://blog.angular.dev/announcing-angular-v22-c52bb83a4664

99•Klaster_1•6h ago•49 comments

Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93x0k194yno

665•reconnecting•11h ago•629 comments

PlayStation Architecture

https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/playstation/

246•gregsadetsky•13h ago•47 comments

Every Byte Matters

https://fzakaria.com/2026/06/01/every-byte-matters

222•ingve•12h ago•111 comments