Nibnib: Image compression with extreme decompression speed
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Nibnib: Image compression with extreme decompression speed was first seen on Hacker News · Front page on Nov 1, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 82 checks on 2 different days. Its best position was #10 of 30, reached on Nov 2, 16:37 UTC. It dropped off the list after Nov 2, 17:07 UTC.
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If you have an Adafruit Fruit Jam, you can run the demo on that board [1]. It can stream 640x480 video off an SD card at 60fps, as well as display a static image from flash. Also possibly of interest to HN, the decoder[2] is written in a new low level language called symbolasm[3], which seeks to combine the…
1) IMO pointless to put an emphasis on extreme decompression speed but not show numbers against JPEG even 2) BCx essentially does the same codebooking/paletting but more efficiently by allowing you to interpolate between two palette entries for an even larger compression
This seems like straining the definition of "compression". We have a delta-coding filter and then palettization? That's it? Edit: I should say, I find it surprising (but cool) that it apparently works so well. I would have expected errors to accumulate since the decoder has to un-delta-code. I saw mention of…
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Is Nibnib: Image compression with extreme decompression speed trending on Hacker News right now?
Not at the moment. It was last on the list on Nov 2, 17:07 UTC, after 2 days of trending.
What is the highest rank Nibnib: Image compression with extreme decompression speed reached?
#10 on Hacker News · Front page, on Nov 2, 16:37 UTC. Trendoday checks this list every 15 minutes.
How long has Nibnib: Image compression with extreme decompression speed been trending?
It was first seen on Nov 1, 2026 and has been on the list on 2 days (82 checks) since.
How much discussion did it get on Hacker News?
137 points and 23 comments; submitted by raphlinus on Oct 30, 2026.