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New ask Hacker News story: I don't think image containers supporting both lossless and lossy is good

I don't think image containers supporting both lossless and lossy is good 4 by functionmouse | 1 comments on Hacker News. In all discussion of the modern image formats JXL and WebP, it has been mentioned that the formats support both lossless and lossy encoding, as if this is some sort of breakthrough feature. I think, at the very least, lossless and lossy image formats ought to use a different container, or file extension, so that -I- can differentiate them. As long as there is this sort of ambiguity, and unless search engines widely add a "lossless" option to their advanced image search tools, I will keep searching for "filetype:png" when I want a lossless image. Hey, maybe some Googler could convince their boss to convince their boss to add the "filetype:lossless" flag, to support these new formats?
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed?

Ask HN: Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed? 4 by Ixander | 3 comments on Hacker News. I sometimes run across comments where someone says they want an open-source router. I wonder if this is a viable idea for someone to start as a small company. What makes me hesitant is that, first, it looks like this already exists in several wireless and non-wireless routers (like the GL.iNet Flint or OpenWrt One), and second, I assume hackers would just make their own. I have been flashing DD-WRT to my routers for many years. My current setup is an Archer C9 that connects via cable to an Archer C8, which then wirelessly bridges to an R7000. All of them run DD-WRT. If I had "fun money," I would buy a low-power SFF PC with dual NICs, run OPNsense or OpenWrt, and use the wireless routers strictly as access points. Since I don't have that much to spend, I look for older DD-WRT friendly routers, usually under $30, on Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace, and flash them myse...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How do swarms of AI agents work?

Ask HN: How do swarms of AI agents work? 5 by dsrtslnd23 | 1 comments on Hacker News. Andrej Karpathy posted about the growing gap in how people experience AI: ~75% have barely used LLMs ~20% use them casually ~0.2% use frontier models professionally for math and code ~0.00006% have access to frontier systems internally He writes: "And finally we get to the ~5,000 people (~0.00006%) with access to frontier-grade systems internally. The external world has seen the preview. It looks like swarms of thousands of agents collaborating over weeks on software mega projects: minting zero days, running cyber attacks and defenses at machine speeds, discovering new science, advancing the frontier of mathematics." Source: https://ift.tt/7zYvucp Does anyone have an intuition, or even firsthand experience, of how these swarms of thousands of agents actually work? I'm already struggling to get 2-3 agents to work together reliably. I can't really wrap my head around how you'd c...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What's your favorite children's books?

Ask HN: What's your favorite children's books? 4 by lgregg | 5 comments on Hacker News. Board books, normal children's books, STEM, non-STEM. I'm interested in them all.
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New ask Hacker News story: I am so tired of startups doing worse than me

I am so tired of startups doing worse than me 3 by sankde | 7 comments on Hacker News. I literally saw a multi million funded startup build an AI model for Android devices and tout it as their best achievement. I put a 32M parameter looped model on ESP32, an 8MB chip. I have three different softwares in production right now. I just don't understand what I am doing wrong. How are these guys getting so much money?
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What's your plan if AI takes your job?

Ask HN: What's your plan if AI takes your job? 3 by bumicodes | 2 comments on Hacker News. If AI took away my job and I cannot return to software engineering, I cannot imagine a fit for me at any place yet. I was wondering if anyone else had the same thought and what would you do?
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New ask Hacker News story: If AI keeps evolving,would you worry about your next generation's survival

If AI keeps evolving,would you worry about your next generation's survival 5 by hanstyle | 1 comments on Hacker News. Imagine this. Twenty years from now, if AI is capable of handling all work, how will your kids make ends meet? If you want to prevent that future, what should you be doing today?
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