The $5000 Compression Challenge (patrickcraig.co.uk)
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gameshot911 Mar 8, 2017 | on: Better Compression with Zstandard | context

Somewhat off topic, but this reminded me of one of my favorite HN submissions:

Link - http://www.patrickcraig.co.uk/other/compression.php

Previous commentary - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9163782

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