H.264 Is Magic (2016)
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On Hacker News
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- 359
- Comments
- 131
- Submitted by
- ea016
- Posted
- Oct 29, 2026
- Site
- sidbala.com
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Trending history
H.264 Is Magic (2016) was first seen on Hacker News · Front page on Oct 29, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 69 checks on 2 different days. Its best position was #5 of 30, reached on Oct 29, 21:37 UTC. It is #5 right now, holding steady at #5 over the last 6 checks.
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Had the pleasure of working with Jason Garrett-Glaser (better known as DarkShikari) circa 2011 on a patch for x264 to better utilize more cores (slice-threaded lookahead). At the time he was working with Sony to optimize their PlayStation game streaming service, and this had the potential to lower encoding latency…
Ten years later, 2026 magic: AV1 https://engineering.fb.com/2026/06/22/video-engineering/adop... And soon AV2 https://av2.aomedia.org/
One uncommonly used feature of H.264 is support for lossless video. It's a bit hard to use due to tooling (not easy to discover and select the feature), and is sometimes incompatible with web browsers, but you can get actual lossless video using a mainstream video codec. You can verify that it really is lossless, and…
Questions
Is H.264 Is Magic (2016) trending on Hacker News right now?
Yes. As of Oct 30, 09:07 UTC it is #5, holding steady at #5 over the last 6 checks.
What is the highest rank H.264 Is Magic (2016) reached?
#5 on Hacker News · Front page, on Oct 29, 21:37 UTC. Trendoday checks this list every 15 minutes.
How long has H.264 Is Magic (2016) been trending?
It was first seen on Oct 29, 2026 and has been on the list on 2 days (69 checks) since.
How much discussion did it get on Hacker News?
359 points and 131 comments; submitted by ea016 on Oct 29, 2026.