Infillion acquires location data company Foursquare
Infillion has acquired Foursquare, a company specializing in location data. The deal expands Infillion's capabilities in location-based advertising and data services. (axios.com)
Show HN: Rubrol – Sub-10ms PDF engine using Typst instead of Headless Chrome
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Rubrol is a high-throughput PDF/Typesetting engine built around Typst and a Rust core that replaces headless Chromium-based pipelines like Puppeteer and Gotenberg. It runs as a microsecond sidecar or native FFI with zero external dependencies, delivering sub-10ms compile latency (reported 5.8ms average on a single vCPU), <28MB resident memory per container, pixel-perfect deterministic layout, and built-in PDF/A-3b and Factur‑X/ZUGFeRD embedding and validation to meet EN 16931 and ISO 19005-3 e‑invoicing mandates. The architecture emphasizes memory safety (no V8 GC storms or zombie Chrome renderers), deterministic kerning across platforms, and precompiled Typst templates; SDKs and REST/Unix socket interfaces exist for Python, Node, Go, Rust, and more.
Benchmarks and engineering tear-downs claim dramatic operational gains: up to 318x faster and 57x less memory versus Headless Chrome, sub-millisecond Rust core runs versus JVM tooling like Mustangproject, and fewer security/compliance hazards than Ghostscript-based flows. The project is open-source under LGPLv3 for development use, with commercial Pro ($1,800/yr) and Enterprise ($4,800/yr) licenses that replace LGPL obligations and add unlimited production nodes, certified compliance packs, private vaults, and support. Pricing, ROI calculators, Docker images, guides for EU Stripe compliance, and detailed comparisons versus legacy tools are provided for evaluation and deployment.
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