Show HN: SplatHash – A lightweight alternative to BlurHash and ThumbHash
SplatHash encodes any image into exactly 16 bytes (a 22-char base64url string) and decodes it back to a 32×32 blurry preview in 0.067 ms. Go, TypeScript, and Python all produce bit-for-bit identical hashes. Columns: original · SplatHash 32×32 · ThumbHash · BlurHash. Regenerate: mise run compare. Go is the reference implementation. All others are verified […]
Unsloth Dynamic 2.0 GGUFs
copyCopychevron-down Basics A big new upgrade to our Dynamic Quants! We’re excited to introduce our Dynamic v2.0 quantization method – a major upgrade to our previous quants. This new method outperforms leading quantization methods and sets new benchmarks for 5-shot MMLU and KL Divergence. This means you can now run + fine-tune quantized LLMs while […]
US and Israel carrying out strikes against Iran
US President Donald Trump had been sending mixed signals about whether he planned to attack Iran, preparing for war while saying he favors dialogue. The United States has moved military assets closer to the Middle East over the past few weeks, raising concerns that the prospects of war were growing. Trump said on January 22 […]
Israel launches strike against Iran, declares state of emergency across country
The United States and Israel launched attacks on Iran Saturday – marking a major escalation following weeks of negotiations between US and Iranian officials over the country’s nuclear program. President Donald Trump confirmed in a video posted to social media that the United States had begun a “massive and ongoing” military campaign in Iran, “to […]
Rust Is Just a Tool
Rust is Just a Tool Blog Talks Contact 4 Feb 2026 I like Rust. It’s versatile enough that it can be used for application and systems programming. It has the best tooling of any language I’ve seen. It has a fairly pleasant type system. And I think most importantly it does a great job in […]
Cash issuing terminals
2026-02-27 In the United States, we are losing our fondness for cash. As in many other countries, cards and other types of electronic payments now dominate everyday commerce. To some, this is a loss. Cash represented a certain freedom from intermediation, a comforting simplicity, that you just don’t get from Visa. It’s funny to consider, […]
Don’t use passkeys for encrypting user data
Why am I writing this today? Because I am deeply concerned about users losing their most sacred data. Over the past year or two, I’ve seen many organizations, large and small, implement passkeys (which is great, thank you!) and use the PRF (Pseudo-Random Function) extension to derive keys to protect user data, typically to support […]
Croatia declared free of landmines after 31 years
Interior Minister Davor Božinović announced Friday that Croatia is officially free of landmines. Thirty-one years after the end of the Homeland War, all known minefields have been cleared — a major milestone for the country. The decades-long effort came at a heavy cost. Over three decades of painstaking and dangerous work, 208 people lost their […]
Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
Earlier today, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth shared on X that he is directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply chain risk. This action follows months of negotiations that reached an impasse over two exceptions we requested to the lawful use of our AI model, Claude: the mass domestic surveillance of Americans […]
We Will Not Be Divided
Frequently Asked Questions Have you thought about broadening the requests to be more comprehensive? The goal of this letter is to find common ground. The signatories likely have a diverse set of views. The current situation with the DoW is so clear-cut that it can bring together a very broad coalition. Signing this letter doesn’t […]