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Improving classic Lempel-Ziv-Welch with edit distance matching

4 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 2 stories, 2 comments · first 2026-01-28 · latest 2026-02-18

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  1. …of work - An implementation of an idea I had from 2013, an "approximate matching" LZW algorithm: https://github.com/BrowserBox/LZW-X Estimated: (my own thinking - weeks over years), coding: 2 days of work - An email-bridge for your CLI AI…
    comment by keepamovin · 2026-02-18 · in Ask HN: Share your vibe coded project
  2. …like this. I consider this a first rung, a starting point for further exploration. Check it out: https://github.com/BrowserBox/LZW-X
    comment by keepamovin · 2026-01-29 · in Show HN: I made a new compression algorithm
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    Show HN: I made a new compression algorithm
    story by keepamovin · 2026-01-29 · 10 comments
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    LZW-X: Beyond Exact-Match Compression
    story by keepamovin · 2026-01-28 · 0 comments