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Peter Hrynkow
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Peter Hrynkow's personal blog at peterhrynkow.com covers programming and web. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Show HN: Using SVG to Shrink Your PNGs”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-02-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in an HTML Tips (2020) thread. The only comment is a technical aside on using SVG masks to add transparency to JPEG images, with no judgement of the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: Using SVG to Shrink Your PNGs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-09-09
What Hacker News says?
Good call, when you need transparency it’s a much more meaningful gain. Heh, this is even another place where you can invoke SVG (though slightly less awful than the HTML-in-SVG-in-HTML I just mentioned, yet nonetheless pretty unnecessary nowadays): you split the alpha channel out into a separate, greyscale, image, and use it as a mask for the other image. Thus you can add a PNG or JPEG alpha channel to your JPEG. h…
Comment linking /how-to-compress-a-png-like-a-jpeg/
on “HTML Tips (2020)”Submitted Show HN: Using SVG to Shrink Your PNGs as a story · 217 points
HN discussionI’ve added another example to demonstrate how the technique can be used on blurry photographic backgrounds as well: https://peterhrynkow.com/performance/2019/01/13/blowing-up-i...
Comment linking /performance/2019/01/13/blowing-up-images-to-make-them-small.html
on “How to reduce the file size of large background images by over 93%”Submitted Hacking Image Interpolation for Fun and Profit as a story · 41 points
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