I loved it.

- Retrospective on how we have advanced with compression methods; it's quite interesting how the same file is reduced in compressed size when doing a survey of the distinct compression methods.

- nice explanation of Huffman coding

- mention of code golfing

A quintaessential HN article. I think each of the 3 items above is worth 10 hacking nerd bonus points (collect 50 points to get a Devo Energy Dome)

If code golfing is done using Befunge or Brainf*, multiply score by 3.

EDIT: BTW, Brainf____ source code probably compresses nicely with Pack.