Compression and Concatenation on the Web(theconsensus.dev)
8 points by eatonphil | 2 comments
An article on theconsensus.dev about how compression and file concatenation interact in web asset delivery.
#gzip on Hacker News
6 stories tagged gzip, newest first.
Can gzip be a language model?(nathan.rs)
384 points by networked | 149 comments
A blog post by Nathan Barry exploring whether gzip compression can be used as a language model to generate text, with an interactive beam search demo.
I use zip bombs to protect my server(idiallo.com)
904 points by foxfired | 397 comments
Blog post by Ibrahim Diallo explaining how he serves zip bombs to malicious bots and scrapers to protect his server.
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.
78% MNIST accuracy using GZIP in under 10 lines of code(jakobs.dev)
344 points by js98 | 131 comments
Blog post showing how to classify MNIST digits with about 78% accuracy using gzip compression distance in under 10 lines of code.
Bad numbers in the “gzip beats BERT” paper?(kenschutte.com)
341 points by ks2048 | 109 comments
Blog post arguing the "gzip beats BERT" text classification paper reports top-2 accuracy instead of kNN(k=2) accuracy due to a code bug, inflating results.