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Web experiments beyond WebGL & Favicon as micro data store - Hacker News (Jun 20, 2026)
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Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Prezi: Create AI presentations fast - https://try.prezi.com/automated_daily - KrispCall: Agentic Cloud Telephony - https://try.krispcall.com/tad - Lindy is your ultimate AI assistant that proactively manages your inbox - https://try.lindy.ai/tad Support The Automated Daily directly: Buy me a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/theautomateddaily Today's topics: Web experiments beyond WebGL - Two browser curiosities push the web’s boundaries: a CSS-rendered Quake clone and unconventional rendering techniques that challenge the usual canvas/WebGL playbook. Keywords: CSS rendering, browser game, PolyCSS, web graphics. Favicon as micro data store - A developer encoded a tiny HTML page directly into PNG favicon pixel bytes, turning a standard asset into a miniature data container. Keywords: favicon, PNG, steganography, HTML payload, canvas decode. AI scaling and hallucinations - A critique argues AI progress is hitting diminishing returns from sheer scale, with tougher trade-offs between capability, compute cost, and hallucinations. Keywords: model scaling, benchmarks, calibration, hallucination, efficiency. Queueing theory improves latency - An Erlang-C queueing analysis shows adding more servers can reduce average and tail latency even when per-server utilization stays constant. Keywords: M/M/c, load balancing, Erlang C, p99 latency, capacity planning. SSD endurance beats TBW - A 16-year-old SSD reportedly survived around a petabyte of host writes, reminding listeners that TBW is a warranty guideline, not a cliff edge. Keywords: SSD endurance, TBW, NAND, reliability, aging hardware. Compression as prediction and limits - Matt Mahoney’s book explains why compression is essentially modeling plus encoding—and why the mo…