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Cardinal Peak
Company blog · cardinalpeak.com/bloghardwareprogramming
Cardinal Peak is the company blog at cardinalpeak.com, writing about hardware and programming. Since 2010, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times, most often “World's Smallest h.264 Encoder (2010)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-18, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
An engineering services firm's blog, linked as a source for posts on a minimal H.264 encoder, Python performance with Cython, and why CD audio uses its sampling rate. Commenters cite it for facts rather than praise it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
As a trusted product development company, Cardinal Peak has helped design and engineer over 200 commercial products across various markets. Our approach as a product development firm features expert contract engineering services to bring your concepts to life. Call or visit us online to learn more a
Most-linked posts?
- World's Smallest h.264 Encoder (2010)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-09-23
What Hacker News says?
Cardinal Peak- Lafayette, CO - REMOTE and ONSITE - We are a product engineering services firm located in Lafayette, CO and we help bring fully tested, market-ready products from complete lifecycle concept to reality. We do this through a wide range of services such as: hardware development, embedded software, security integration, and cloud and mobile applications. With our client industries ranging all from consume…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2022)”Submitted Did the Manhattan Transfer Use Auto-Tune? as a story · 49 points
HN discussionThe important thing is that the output complies with the standard. That's a good point --- you can write an H.264 encoder that doesn't compress at all , and as expected, the amount of code to do so is quite small: https://cardinalpeak.com/blog/worlds-smallest-h-264-encoder/ However, minih264 may currently be the smallest encoder that does compress.
Comment linking /blog/worlds-smallest-h-264-encoder/
on “Minih264 – Minimalistic, single-header library for encoding H264/SVC”Submitted Sniffing iPad Traffic as a story · 9 points
HN discussionOptimizing/squeezing performance out of Python is a rabbit hole: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/jfp/entry... I would speculate using numba or Cython would yield further performance gains over PyPy...but that's mostly just based on anecdotal comparisons: https://cardinalpeak.com/blog/faster-python-with-cython-and-... I just think it is a bit dishonest to try and make a claim as pointed as this art…
Comment linking /blog/faster-python-with-cython-and-pypy-part-2/
on “Faster Command Line Tools in D”Submitted World's Smallest H.264 Encoder as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSo interesting! I’d always wondered about the history behind this. After your hint, there’s more info here: https://www.cardinalpeak.com/why-do-cds-use-a-sampling-rate-...
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HN discussionSubmitted Irrational Optimism and Project Planning as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Smallest H.264 Encoder as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted World's Smallest h.264 Encoder (2010) as a story · 1 points
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HN discussionSubmitted How robust is audio perception in the face of magnitude and phase distortions? as a story · 1 points
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