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The Optidash Blog
Company blog · optidash.ai/blogprogrammingwebsystems
The Optidash Blog is the company blog at optidash.ai, writing about programming, web and systems. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “The Case of the Missing SIMD Code”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link The Optidash Blog for a post on SIMD code in libpng, the PNG library. One commenter called the article interesting and noted it is not about deflate, as another commenter had complained.
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.
Modern, AI-powered image optimization platform. Optidash greatly speeds-up your websites and saves you money on bandwidth and storage.
Most-linked posts?
- The Case of the Missing SIMD Code3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-05-05
- Show HN: Optidash – ML-enhanced image optimization API2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-06-28
What Hacker News says?
Check out https://optidash.ai if you need an API for this.
Comment linking /
on “Squoosh: Make images smaller using best-in-class codecs, right in the browser”Submitted Accelerating JPEG Coding with Multiple Threads as a story · 10 points
HN discussionAn interesting article regarding SIMD in libPNG (although not in deflate as complained about): https://optidash.ai/blog/the-case-of-the-missing-simd-code
Comment linking /blog/the-case-of-the-missing-simd-code
on “The QOI File Format Specification”Submitted Show HN: Optidash – ML-enhanced image optimization API as a story · 10 points
HN discussionComplex SVG Favicons will usually be larger in term of bytes than highly compressed PNG icons. We did an extensive study of Favicons served on the top 500 websites [1]. If you want to stick with the old-school PNG icons, we open-sourced `icopack` - our internal tool for efficient packing of individual PNGs into a highly-optimised ICO files [2]. [1] https://optidash.ai/blog/optimizing-favicons-for-the-worlds-... [2]…
Comment linking /blog/optimizing-favicons-for-the-worlds-top-500-websites
on “SVG favicons have some cool benefits”Submitted Optimizing Favicons for the World's Top Websites as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThis reminds me of an experiment [1] we run a couple months back. We crawled top 100 Alexa websites and check the bloat in the images served to billions of users. [1]: https://optidash.ai/blog/optimizing-images-on-the-worlds-top...
Comment linking /blog/optimizing-images-on-the-worlds-top-100-websites
on “We rendered a million web pages to find out what makes the web slow”Submitted Optimizing Images On The World's Top 100 Websites as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Case of the Missing SIMD Code as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Case of the Missing SIMD Code as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Optidash – ML-enhanced image optimization API as a story · 1 points
HN discussion