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An experiment building a new type of compression algorithm

8 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 2 stories, 6 comments · first 2026-03-02 · latest 2026-03-21

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  1. …test harness, AI Coding can do magic! It was able to beat XZ on its own game by a good margin: https://github.com/mohsen1/fesh
  2. Hers is one: https://github.com/mohsen1/fesh beats the best compression out there by 6% on average. Yet nobody will care because it was not hand written
  3. …is genuinely novel versus standard practices in extreme binary packing (like Crinkler/UPX). Repo: https://github.com/mohsen1/fesh For those who know this stuff: Does this architecture have any actual merits for standard distribution…
  4. …my experiment with pushing xz to compress Alpine binaries harder was a waste of time / tokens https://github.com/mohsen1/fesh
  5. …between sessions so each iteration in the loop can learn from previous experiments and attempts [1] https://github.com/mohsen1/fesh
    comment by mohsen1 · 2026-03-04 · in Agentic Engineering Patterns
  6. https://github.com/mohsen1/fesh