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A Portable File Format for Agent Memory (9 minute read)

TLDR AI ↗ · 2026-09-01 Cached

The article introduces 'memoryfields', a portable file format for AI agent memory that uses Markdown files and optional SQLite indexes, advocating for a simpler, data-driven approach over existing complex systems.

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Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-08-31 Cached

The article demonstrates how to use ImHex, a free and open-source hex editor, to reverse engineer the save file format of the game FEZ, providing a practical guide from binary analysis to pattern definition.

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Decayfmt – a file format that corrupts itself a little every time you open it

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-08-21 Cached

Decayfmt is a Rust-based file format that intentionally corrupts data each time it is opened, simulating digital decay for artistic or conceptual purposes.

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What's in a PowerPoint File?

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-08-19 Cached

This article explains the internal structure of PowerPoint files, detailing how slides, text, shapes, and properties are stored using file systems and hierarchical data formats.

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Reverse-engineering Codemasters' BIGF archive format in Ruby

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-06-30 Cached

A reverse-engineer explains how to read Codemasters' BIGF archive format from TOCA Race Driver using pure Ruby, focusing on the String#unpack method for binary decoding.

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Dissecting Apple's Sparse Image Format (ASIF)

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-06-28 Cached

A technical blog post dissects Apple's new Sparse Image Format (ASIF) for virtual disks in macOS Tahoe, covering the process of reverse-engineering the file format from hex dumps.

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Hershey is a textual vector font format

Lobsters Hottest ↗ · 2026-05-23 Cached

The article describes the Hershey vector font format, a textual representation of glyphs using a coordinate encoding system where letters map to signed values, and includes examples and links to related resources.

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What's in a GGUF, besides the weights – and what's still missing?

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-05-14 Cached

This article explores the GGUF file format used by llama.cpp for language models, highlighting its single-file convenience and the role of embedded chat templates and special tokens. It also compares different Jinja implementations and discusses what is still missing from the format.

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