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A Compression Engineer Said JPEG XL Should Not Ship, Three Weeks After Firefox Shipped It

The case against JPEG XL pulled 201 points and 269 comments on Hacker News and 22 points on Lobsters. We ran the codecs ourselves to see which side the numbers actually support.

Sep 14, 20267 min

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Repo16 days ago

bzip3 Beat xz on Size and Speed, Then We Found What Its Release Notes Left Out

bzip3 hit the Hacker News front page with 412 points and shipped version 1.5.4 six hours later. We built it, benchmarked it against xz and zstd on 100MB of Wikipedia text, and reproduced the silent data loss bug the release quietly fixed.

Sep 8, 20266 min