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Dictionary Compression is finally here, and it's ridiculously good

Semantic Compression — why modeling “real-world objects” in OOP often fails

made a localstorage compression lib thats 14x faster than lz-string

The mathematics of compression in database systems

Integer compression library

BUFF: Decomposed bounded floats for fast compression and queries

μpack: Faster & more flexible integer compression

Using the Browser’s <canvas> for Data Compression

Show HN: A luma dependent chroma compression algorithm (image compression)

The Mechanics of Compression: How 100GB Becomes 25GB

I made a small library for perceptual image compression in the style of jpeg-recompress

Automating Image Compression

Efficient String Compression for Modern Database Systems

Hand-Crafting Domain-Specific Compression with an LLM

memvid v2: 18 MB → 143 KB (99.2% compression)

Streaming compression beats framed compression

Semantic Compression (2014)

Optical context compression is just (bad) autoencoding

Post-transformer inference: 224× compression of Llama-70B with improved accuracy

Maximizing Compression of Apple II Hi-Res Images

Text similarity search via normalized compression distance

Show HN: FastLanes based integer compression in Zig

I made a simple and useful image conversion and compression desktop application

LZAV 5.0: Improved compression ratio across a wide range of data types, at similar performance

Carrot Cache is now on Maven Central — memory-optimized Java cache with Zstandard dictionary compression

Show HN: Micro-RLE ≤264-byte compression for UART/MCU logs, zero RAM growth

Extremely fast data compression library

OpenZL: A Novel Data Compression Framework

Expected Attention: KV Cache Compression by Estimating Attention

Show HN: Searchable compression for JSON – ~99% page skip and sub-ms lookups

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