Show HN: Lightweight lossless file minifier/optimizer

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23 points·JayXon··10 comments

I feel a warning is appropriate for JPEGs. Removing EXIF data would definitely not be considered lossless by most photographers.

Same goes for comments in all file formats.

Neat idea but I'd be happier to use it if I knew it was an unqualified benefit rather than having to think about whether it might strip data I need.

Thanks for being the first one to comment. I understand EXIF is important to photographers.

The initial goal of this tool is to reduce software release size. Most of the formats it supported for now are likely to be part of a software. Software don't need comments, only human needs them.

Maybe I'll add an option to keep EXIF and comments later.

But does it know how to compress 3D video files, because if not Nucleus is way better.

Joke aside, congrats on releasing this as open-source.

Haven't used (and first heard) of any of these tools, but from reading the description it sounds like that you can apply each of these tools in any order.

Nucleus was good for a while but these days Pied Piper can pull off an insane 5.2 Weissman Score. Hooli is going to have to come up with something better because a 2.89 just doesn't cut it today.

It doesn't support any video files, at least for now.

Nevermind, just realised you are talking about that TV show Silicon Valley.

Are there any benchmarks to compare to other "format" (compress and retrieving time, efficiency, CPU usage, etc.) ?

This is not a new format, the result is still the same format as before.

If there were any benchmarks, they should compare this to other minifier/optimizer, not other format.

Ah, thank you for pointing that out. I realize now I actually missed the point.

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