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Image and video encoding, compression formats, transcoding, bitrate optimization, and related tooling.

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01 / EXPLORE THROUGH TIME

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Bonsai 2 27B: Near-Lossless Compression in a 9x Smaller Footprint↗ prismml.com · HN · 200 comments · 589 points · Sep 17, 2026
FFmpeg 9.0↗ github.com · HN · 97 comments · 466 points · Aug 04, 2026
Regressive JPEGs↗ maurycyz.com · HN · 69 comments · 727 points · Jul 18, 2026
Claude Code is steganographically marking requests↗ thereallo.dev · HN · 750 comments · 2445 points · Jun 30, 2026
Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB↗ github.com · HN · 181 comments · 561 points · Mar 19, 2026
2025602 stories
FFmpeg 8.0↗ ffmpeg.org · HN · 200 comments · 987 points · Aug 22, 2025
FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support↗ code.ffmpeg.org · HN · 325 comments · 1033 points · Aug 13, 2025
A new PNG spec↗ programmax.net · HN · 602 comments · 672 points · Jun 24, 2025
FFmpeg merges WebRTC support↗ git.ffmpeg.org · HN · 199 comments · 877 points · Jun 04, 2025
FFmpeg by Example↗ ffmpegbyexample.com · HN · 247 comments · 920 points · Jan 14, 2025
2024582 stories
AAA – Analytical Anti-Aliasing↗ blog.frost.kiwi · HN · 96 comments · 602 points · Nov 20, 2024
WebP: The WebPage Compression Format↗ purplesyringa.moe · HN · 203 comments · 552 points · Sep 07, 2024
Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player↗ mpv.io · HN · 559 comments · 1113 points · Aug 17, 2024
MLow: Meta's low bitrate audio codec↗ engineering.fb.com · HN · 197 comments · 572 points · Jun 13, 2024
FFmpeg 7.0↗ ffmpeg.org · HN · 223 comments · 531 points · Apr 05, 2024
2023520 stories
Simulating Non-CRT Monitors with FFmpeg: Flat Panel Displays (2021)↗ int10h.org · HN · 2 comments · 76 points · Dec 31, 2023
Adventures with compression↗ jamesg.blog · HN · 49 comments · 73 points · Dec 30, 2023
Technical Overview of AV1 Spec↗ github.com · HN · 20 comments · 95 points · Dec 25, 2023
Stable Video Diffusion↗ stability.ai · HN · 22 comments · 151 points · Nov 21, 2023
Meta releases Intermediate Graphics Library↗ khronos.org · HN · 35 comments · 59 points · Jul 07, 2023
2022503 stories
Imagen Video: high definition video generation with diffusion models↗ imagen.research.google · HN · 473 comments · 800 points · Oct 05, 2022
Ffmpeg Buddy↗ evanhahn.github.io · HN · 147 comments · 565 points · May 30, 2022
Show HN: I turned my face rec system into a video codec↗ vertigo.ai · HN · 145 comments · 518 points · May 26, 2022
H.264 is Magic (2016)↗ sidbala.com · HN · 219 comments · 714 points · Mar 17, 2022
The fastest GIF does not exist↗ biphelps.com · HN · 77 comments · 657 points · Feb 20, 2022
2021400 stories
All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020)↗ twitter.com · HN · 188 comments · 580 points · Dec 24, 2021
QOI: Lossless Image Compression in O(n) Time↗ phoboslab.org · HN · 293 comments · 1057 points · Nov 24, 2021
PNG files can be animated via network latency↗ da.vidbuchanan.co.uk · HN · 106 comments · 511 points · Jun 21, 2021
John Carmack on JPEG↗ twitter.com · HN · 214 comments · 490 points · Jun 04, 2021
Wuffs’ PNG image decoder↗ nigeltao.github.io · HN · 138 comments · 462 points · Apr 06, 2021
2020462 stories
FFmpeg is 20 years old today↗ twitter.com · HN · 93 comments · 462 points · Dec 20, 2020
Image Scaling Attacks↗ embracethered.com · HN · 73 comments · 431 points · Oct 29, 2020
H.266/Versatile Video Coding (VVC)↗ newsletter.fraunhofer.de · HN · 426 comments · 463 points · Jul 06, 2020
FFmpeg 4.3↗ ffmpeg.org · HN · 220 comments · 554 points · Jun 16, 2020
FLIF – Free Lossless Image Format↗ flif.info · HN · 249 comments · 691 points · Feb 06, 2020
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02 / CATCH UP

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Popular stories, with attention fading over roughly two weeks.

Bonsai 2 27B: Near-Lossless Compression in a 9x Smaller Footprint↗ prismml.com · HN · 200 comments · 589 points · Sep 17, 2026
The case against JPEG XL↗ giannirosato.com · HN · 386 comments · 277 points · Sep 14, 2026
LensVLM: Compressing long context as images, expanding only relevant pages↗ huggingface.co · HN · 10 comments · 91 points · Sep 23, 2026
Compressing a flag to 11 bits↗ read.vantezzen.io · HN · 73 comments · 182 points · Sep 12, 2026
ZK-JPEG: Zero-Knowledge Image Editing and Compression↗ eprint.iacr.org · HN · 33 comments · 108 points · Sep 19, 2026

03 / GO DEEPER

Follow your curiosity

Find a particular story, revisit a year, or see what resonated.

Highest rated · the last 30 days

Bonsai 2 27B: Near-Lossless Compression in a 9x Smaller Footprint↗ prismml.com · HN · 200 comments · 589 points · Sep 17, 2026
The case against JPEG XL↗ giannirosato.com · HN · 386 comments · 277 points · Sep 14, 2026
Compressing a flag to 11 bits↗ read.vantezzen.io · HN · 73 comments · 182 points · Sep 12, 2026
ZK-JPEG: Zero-Knowledge Image Editing and Compression↗ eprint.iacr.org · HN · 33 comments · 108 points · Sep 19, 2026
Balrogg: Demonically compacting (up to 15%) lossless Vorbis/Opus recompressor↗ github.com · HN · 20 comments · 108 points · Sep 03, 2026
LensVLM: Compressing long context as images, expanding only relevant pages↗ huggingface.co · HN · 10 comments · 91 points · Sep 23, 2026
Truncated SVD (2023)↗ brashandplucky.com · HN · 8 comments · 54 points · Sep 14, 2026
MPEG-CENC: Defective by Specification (2024)↗ phrack.org · HN · 0 comments · 19 points · Sep 19, 2026
Faiss vs. Turbovec vs. Infino: Comparing 4-bit vector quantization↗ infino.ai · HN · 0 comments · 9 points · Sep 01, 2026
We put Jev in production against a cross-encoder. Here are the numbers↗ getunblocked.com · HN · 0 comments · 6 points · Sep 22, 2026

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