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Show HN: A brand new, "highly optimised" image format for the next generation

by bstsb on 2/2/25, 1:33 PM with 2 comments

hey there hn!

thought you would appreciate my brand new file format - i've spent over 40 minutes creating this standard. it's really hard trying to get your ideas shown to standards boards etc but i think with the great community here we can help get bioif support into all major browsers :)

the spec is available over at the website, as is a reference implementation. it already has higher usage than jpeg-xl.

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  • by pentaphobe on 2/2/25, 4:58 PM

    This is spectacular!

    Not nearly enough bespoke work going into building such forward-looking technology standards

    Best of luck with it

  • by crazygringo on 2/2/25, 5:59 PM

    Love this.

    You've pushed literate programming so far you turned it into a file format.

    Image compression is easy too, just reduce the font size.

    A picture's worth a thousand words, maybe even more!