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linolevan··on JPEG XL vs. AVIF for web use-cases
Encoder I’m working on as a side project, not publicly released (but feel free to pull the included files to prove it to yourself)
linolevan··on JPEG XL vs. AVIF for web use-cases
I'll post it to bsky/HN at some point in the future!
linolevan··on JPEG XL vs. AVIF for web use-cases
It's just a side project I'm working on with some friends. May release it if it's interesting to folks.
linolevan··on JPEG XL vs. AVIF for web use-cases
I think people are really forgetting that JXL's encoders are bad right now. For instance, in TFA Jake presents

- The Firefox screenshot w/ lossless JXL at 66.9kB, when with a better encoder you get get it down to like 40.7kB (39% smaller) [1] (or 43kB if you need it to work with jxl-rs [2])

- The cat illustration w/ lossless JXL at 255.3kB, when with a better encoder you can get it down to 178kB (30% smaller) [3]

[1] https://www.linolevan.com/05-screenshot.jxl

[2] https://www.linolevan.com/05-screenshot-web.jxl

[3] https://www.linolevan.com/06-illustration.jxl

linolevan··on Things to know when you get cancer
39.2% (!!!) of people get diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lives
linolevan··on Passkeys are not a trap
What is hard about migrating between password managers? At least on MacOS you can just open passwords and export all to another app?
linolevan··on The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s
While it is definitely true that original power drops were due to lower lumens, few things:

- reflective housing is super inefficient (~70% losses on the bounced light off typical material, at the top end expensive stuff still ~23%), still better than just losing the light upwards but not as many lumens on the road as a lab test would show

- Today LEDs are more efficient than sodium

Some math: 100W HPS cobra head lamp prdouces 9.5k lumens, including ballast it draws ~133W from the wall. Lab test shows about 70% of the lamp's light leaves the fixture (with the rest being lost in the housing) leading to ~7k lumens exiting. Roughly 53 lm/W.

LED cobra head lamps get like ~125 lm/W on the low end + fade much more slowly than sodium

linolevan··on Will There Be a 7G?
Looks like 100% AI (https://www.alphaxiv.org/abs/2609.01877) except for citations?
linolevan··on Luanti removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice
Not quite a million USD, but ~$120k

https://abcnews.com/ABCNews/finnish-businessman-handed-12100...

linolevan··on How we measured AI writing across arXiv, and where the measurement breaks
I’m very skeptical of these results. I run a pretty large group paper website on top of arXiv and we run pangram on papers. The numbers are not nearly this high.

One thing I see a lot is papers flagged as AI because they include llm rollouts in the paper as examples.

linolevan··on SQLite improving performance with pre-sort
Neat optimization, I've never seen that before. Thanks for sharing.
linolevan··on Knowledge Distillation of Black-Box Large Language Models (2024)
Can we note that this is a 2024 paper in the title?
linolevan··on At least 25 Flock cameras have been destroyed in five states since April 2025
Pangram is legit. I don't work at pangram, we integrated it in our paper website and one of the cool emergent behaviors I've seen is that on AI papers with example rollouts, it will accurately mark the paper's main text as human generated and the rollouts as AI generated.

My understanding is that they strongly believe in no false positives, so it's definitely possible to slip something by them but if it marks something as AI, it very likely is.

linolevan··on April 2026 TLDR Setup for Ollama and Gemma 4 26B on a Mac mini
What I really don't get is why more people don't talk about LMStudio, I switched to it months ago and it seems like a straight upgrade.
linolevan··on Google releases Gemma 4 open models
Hosted on Parasail + Google (both for free, as of now) themselves, probably would give those a shot
linolevan··on Qwen3.6-Plus: Towards real world agents
I’m surprised that people are surprised. Qwen has been hosting private plus and max variants for a while now.
linolevan··on Subscription bombing and how to mitigate it
Well written piece on an attack vector I'd never thought too hard about before. Thanks for elaborating on why sending an email or two to a random person helps an attacker achieve their goal. A lot of similar articles skip over details like that.
linolevan··on Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated
How much is OpenAI paying you for this
linolevan··on Show HN: We built a terminal-only Bluesky / AT Proto client written in Fortran
https://tangled.org/ <--- GitHub on ATProto

that's all I'm aware of

(edit) Oops, just saw that you mentioned it, confused by your first line then. Tangled is awesome!

linolevan··on Marvin Hagemeister, Luca Casonato, David Sherret and Phil Hawksworth left Deno
John too:

https://bsky.app/profile/johndonmoyer.com/post/3mhbkepa7gs2v

linolevan··on Starlink Mini as a failover
Where on earth are you living with that kind of price point? Unreal.
linolevan··on A Recursive Algorithm to Render Signed Distance Fields
Played around with the code to implement a little bit of SIMD. Was able to squeeze out a decent improvement, ~250 fps avg, ~140 low, ~333 high (on an m4). Looks pretty straightforward to do threading with as well. Cool stuff! Could work to bring more gpu stuff back down to the cpu.
linolevan··on Claude Doubles Usage Limits During Off-Peak Hours (March 13–27, 2026)
Oops! Looks like we posted at the same time.
linolevan··on Claude March 2026 usage promotion
> Does bonus usage count against my weekly usage limit?

> No. The additional usage you get during off-peak hours doesn’t count toward any weekly usage limits on your plan.

linolevan··on Shipping Grayscale Photos at Small Scale
Did… you copy paste this from another discussion? I’ve read this comment before.
linolevan··on Launch HN: IonRouter (YC W26) – High-throughput, low-cost inference
According to the providers that I keep track of, Cumulus is typically pretty price competitive, except for MiniMax where DeepInfra and Together are much cheaper and GLM-5 where DeepInfra and z.AI's own hosting is much cheaper.

(Also technically qwen3 8b w/ novita being first place but barely)

linolevan··on Launch HN: IonRouter (YC W26) – High-throughput, low-cost inference
Can we get context length / output length docs (looks like you mention "Max tokens (chat)" of 128k but it's unclear what that means)? Also it looks like your docs page is out of date from your playground page.

Also piece of feedback: it kind of sucks to have glm/minimax/kimi on separate api endpoints. I assume it's a game you play to get lower latency on routing for popular models but from a consumer perspective it's not great.

linolevan··on Sarvam 105B, the first competitive Indian open source LLM
Looks like at least a second release, they had one other LLM before this.
linolevan··on Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs
This is awesome. Almost all of these are believable even if you're looking at pretty carefully. I need this on a firestick or something.
linolevan··on Nobody ever got fired for using a struct
This is awesome. Got completely lost reading this and was struggling to figure out where I got this link from. Amazing story.
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