Compression is prediction(ngrok.com)
611 points by nikolay | 252 comments
An ngrok blog post explaining compression basics and how data compressors and LLMs fundamentally solve the same prediction problem.
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WebP: The WebPage Compression Format(purplesyringa.moe)
511 points by Kubuxu | 185 comments
Blog post describing a trick to compress a website's HTML by encoding it into a lossless WebP image and decoding it in the browser, compared with gzip and Brotli.
The browser's main thread is expensive(kciter.so)
408 points by kciter | 141 comments
A devlog post on kciter.so explaining why work on the browser's main thread is costly and how it affects web app responsiveness.
Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web(hacks.mozilla.org)
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Mozilla Hacks article by Ryan Hunt on why WebAssembly remains a second-class language on the web and how to make it first-class.
Qpack amplification attacks against HTTP/3 servers(foxio.io)
13 points by kozika | 1 comments
FoxIO blog post detailing QPACK header decompression amplification attacks that let unauthenticated clients exhaust memory on multiple HTTP/3 server implementations.
OpenZL: An open source format-aware compression framework(engineering.fb.com)
376 points by terrelln | 87 comments
Meta Engineering blog post introducing OpenZL, an open source format-aware data compression framework.