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A better zip bomb (2019)
• www.bamsoftware.com
Maximizing Compression of Apple II Hi-Res Images
• deater.net
Semantic Compression (2014)
• caseymuratori.com
Build your own compressed-sensing 1-pixel camera
• www.instructables.com
Helldivers 2 devs slash install size from 154GB to 23GB
• www.tomshardware.com
Constructing the Word's First JPEG XL MD5 Hash Quine
• stackchk.fail
How many bytes does gzip compress?
• www.awsistoohard.com
Constructing the Word's First JPEG XL MD5 Hash Quine
• stackchk.fail
Show HN: FastLanes based integer compression in Zig
• github.com
Compressed filesystems à la language models
• grohan.co
The Great Compression
• en.wikipedia.org
Zip Files All the Way Down (2010)
• research.swtch.com
Why JPEG XL ignoring bit depth is genius (and why AVIF can't pull it off)
• www.fractionalxperience.com
New OSM file format: 30% smaller than PBF, 5x faster to import
• community.openstreetmap.org
Zram Performance Analysis
• notes.xeome.dev
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger Version of Uber H3 in Rust
• grim7reaper.github.io
DeepSeek OCR
• github.com
Reverse engineering iWork
• andrews.substack.com
Oavif: Faster target quality image compression
• giannirosato.com
Peeking Inside Gigantic Zips with Only Kilobytes
• ritiksahni.com