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imgproxy: fast and secure on-the-fly image processing
Company blog · imgproxy.net/blogwebprogramming
imgproxy: fast and secure on-the-fly image processing is the company blog at imgproxy.net, writing about web and programming. Since 2019, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “AI-powered, self-hostable image proxy”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link imgproxy as a self-hosted, on-the-fly image processing service and an alternative to hosted options like Cloudflare Images and Vercel's image API. Comments also touch on handling user file uploads.
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.
imgproxy is a fast and secure standalone server for resizing and converting remote images. The guiding principles behind imgproxy are security, speed, and simplicity
Most-linked posts?
- AI-powered, self-hostable image proxy4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-12-07
- Show HN: Imgproxy, fast and secure image processing tool3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-11-21
- Image Optimization for Next.js with Imgproxy2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-07-10
What Hacker News says?
For anyone looking for an alternative, https://imgproxy.net/ works v. well.
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on “Issues with Cloudflare Images”Submitted Show HN: Imgproxy, fast and secure image processing tool as a story · 19 points
HN discussion> Having user A upload a malicious_file.png and then user B download it You will usually want the profile image of user A to be shown to user B. Same for videos and other files - users likely upload them so that others can download them / consume them in some way, right? I think where you need to start is doing some threat analysis, and proceed from there. Hosting user content can be built out from "very small" to "…
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on “Ask HN: How to handle user file uploads?”Submitted Real-time serverless image processing with imgproxy (OSS) and AWS Lambda as a story · 10 points
HN discussionMaybe atleast link to the project https://imgproxy.net/ next time? Your comment is basically an ad for your product. I am sure many clicked the link expecting there to be some image resizing proxy solution…
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on “The Cost of Being Crawled: LLM Bots and Vercel Image API Pricing”Submitted Show HN: imgproxy, fast and secure on-the-fly image processing as a story · 10 points
HN discussionI'm continuing my work on https://thingstohave.app – a flexible and social wishlist app. Usually, I barely report on this thread once every few months, but this month was highly productive: 1. I changed how lists appeared in the UI to fix a very annoying pattern where users were confusing lists and things. 2. I finished adding image uploads. Now you can add and view image attachments. This was quite a challenging ta…
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on “Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)”Submitted AWS ECS, EC2, and Warm Pools: Advantages and Gotchas as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted imgproxy is the blazing fast and secure image processing tool as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI-powered, self-hostable image proxy as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reproducible image processing servers benchmark: Thumbor vs. imagor vs. imgproxy as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Image Optimization for Next.js with Imgproxy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Image Optimization for Next.js with Imgproxy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Training object detection models for imgproxy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Smart self-hosted image resizing with imgproxy as a story · 1 points
HN discussion