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A better and stronger spiritual successor to BZip2.

12 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 3 stories, 9 comments · first 2022-05-10 · latest 2026-10-27

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  1. How does it compare to bzip3 [1]? [1] https://github.com/iczelia/bzip3 Did this Claude-written free compressor take anything from bzip3?
    comment by thesz · 2026-10-27 · in Free Compressor Written by Claude Out-Squeezes the Giants: ZSTD, Gzip and, Bsc
  2. …thread I will bite this one. Curiously, it seems like Konstantinos has opened this ticket, i.e. https://github.com/iczelia/bzip3/issues/177 , and open-sourced his algorithm here -- https://codeberg.org/kagiannis/gdcc-2021 . As the…
    comment by palaiologos · 2026-09-08 · in bzip3
  3. An interesting unintentional benchmark is to go to https://github.com/iczelia/bzip3/releases and see to what degree bzip3 compresses its own release archives; and go to https://github.com/iczelia/bzip3/blob/master/.github/workflo... to see…
    comment by JdeBP · 2026-09-07 · in bzip3
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    story by tosh · 2026-09-07 · 124 comments
  5. Yes. https://github.com/iczelia/bzip3
    comment by slyall · 2026-09-07 · in Balrogg: Demonically compacting (up to 15%) lossless Vorbis/Opus recompressor
  6. …be bzip2), when the original bzip exists: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/125803 and also bzip3: https://github.com/iczelia/bzip3
    comment by roytam87 · 2026-03-16 · in An ode to bzip
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    Bzip3: A spiritual successor to BZip2
    story by tosh · 2025-02-01 · 176 comments
  8. …on a bzip3 to improve the state-of-the-art in the domain of compressors based on Burrows-Wheeler: https://github.com/kspalaiologos/bzip3 I’m keeping fingers crossed for the project. Especially given that the author is 19 and her best work…
    comment by nathell · 2024-04-10 · in Bzip2 Format Specification (2016) [pdf]
  9. Regarding zstd: I've just discovered bzip3. https://github.com/kspalaiologos/bzip3
    comment by still_grokking · 2022-11-15 · in Sapling: A new source control system with Git-compatible client
  10. The code has, at https://github.com/kspalaiologos/bzip3/blob/bf2f0e02fd59f4c4... : } else if (argv[i][1] == 'j') { workers = atoi(argv[i + 1]); i++; If the last argument is "-j6" then this will read past the end of the allocated argv…
    comment by eesmith · 2022-05-10 · in Bzip3 – A better and stronger spiritual successor to bzip2
  11. …I was also confused with faster speed claims than bzip2, and then saw the discussion in the issue: https://github.com/kspalaiologos/bzip3/issues/2
    comment by asicsp · 2022-05-10 · in Bzip3 – A better and stronger spiritual successor to bzip2
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    story by palaiologos · 2022-05-10 · 104 comments