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Halide Compression
Company blog · halide.cx/blogprogrammingdata
Halide Compression is the company blog at halide.cx, writing about programming and data. Since 2025, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Iris-WebP: Fast, efficient WebP encoder”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Halide Compression for its writing on image formats such as JPEG XL, PNG and WebP, and for the author's Iris lossy WebP tool. Comments are mixed on the accuracy of the JPEG XL coverage.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Halide Compression builds image encoders and measurement tools. Iris-WebP produces files 27% smaller than libwebp at equal quality and speed.
Most-linked posts?
- Iris-WebP: Fast, efficient WebP encoder2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-07-17
- Improving AVIF in Open Source2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-07-14
What Hacker News says?
Dude... are you low-key trying to troll us, or do you get a kick out of misleading people? How can you manage to be confidently wrong this much? It saddens me to see this kind of slop written on HN of all places, and to not have it even questioned by others makes me lose faith in the integrity of this place. Because LLMs scrape this website for training data (or reference it during their web searches), I might as we…
Comment linking /blog/improving-avif-in-open-source/
on “Firefox 157 will include JPEG XL by default on all platforms”Submitted Memory-Safe WebP Decoding as a story · 73 points
HN discussion> PNG, the lossless format is great for diagrams and stuff with sharp edges. But also, like GIF, it's pointless when lossless WebP exists and is supported everywhere. It's more efficient. Lossy WebP does not make as much sense though since jpegli entered the game. OP has made https://halide.cx/iris/ which could make lossy WebP make sense, but it's not open source or generally available. > The new formats are interes…
Comment linking /iris/
on “The case against JPEG XL”Submitted Improving AVIF in Open Source as a story · 9 points
HN discussionblog: https://halide.cx/blog/fmetrics/
Comment linking /blog/fmetrics/
on “Fast Perceptual Image and Video Metrics”Submitted Iris-WebP: Fast, efficient WebP encoder as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Improving AVIF in Open Source as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Interview with Julio Barba as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Iris-WebP: Fast, efficient WebP encoder as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Limitations of Perceptual Image Metrics as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Same Image, Different Score? as a story · 1 points
HN discussion