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Toni Sagristà Sellés
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Toni Sagristà Sellés writes Langur Monkey, a personal blog at tonisagrista.com about web and ai. Since 2023, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “JPEG XL vs. AVIF: A Comparison”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this 2023 blog post comparing JPEG XL and AVIF image quality and size limits. They cite it as evidence in debates over web image formats and Chrome's JPEG XL support.
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.
Personal website and portfolio
Most-linked posts?
- JPEG XL vs. AVIF: A Comparison5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2023-03-04
What Hacker News says?
I disagree about the image quality at typical sizes - I find JPEG-XL is generally similar or better than AVIF at any reasonable compression ratios for web images. See this for example: https://tonisagrista.com/blog/2023/jpegxl-vs-avif/ AVIF only comes out as superior at extreme compression ratios at much lower bit rates than are typically used for web images, and the images generally look like smothered messes at th…
Comment linking /blog/2023/jpegxl-vs-avif/
on “Chrome Jpegxl Issue Reopened”Submitted Google unkills JPEG XL? as a story · 369 points
HN discussion> But AVIF provides better image quality than JXL even at lower settings. I don't think that's strictly true. The conventional reporting has been that JXL works better at regular web sizes, but AVIF starts to edge out at very low quality settings. However, the quality per size between the two is so close that there are comparisons showing JXL winning even where AVIF is supposed to out perform JXL. (e.g. https://toni…
Comment linking /blog/2023/jpegxl-vs-avif/
on “Google Revisits JPEG XL in Chromium After Earlier Removal”Submitted Local TTS is getting capable and accessible as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNot always https://tonisagrista.com/blog/2023/jpegxl-vs-avif/
Comment linking /blog/2023/jpegxl-vs-avif/
on “The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)”Submitted JPEG XL vs. AVIF: A Comparison as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://avif.io/blog/comparisons/avif-vs-webp/ > AVIF has an image resolution limit of 65536 x 65536 pixels. but from https://tonisagrista.com/blog/2023/jpegxl-vs-avif/ > Max image size is limited to 4K (3840x2160) in AVIF, which is a deal breaker to me. You can tile images, but seams are visible at the edges, > WebP also has a hard limit to an image's frame size, with its maximum dimension being 16,383 x 16,383 > W…
Comment linking /blog/2023/jpegxl-vs-avif/
on “A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team”