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Just a heads up, this is writing 16 bits for every 8 bits of input: https://github.com/philipl/pifs/blob/fded8bf7b8f4fc64233e37b...

comment by nyc_pizzadev · 2026-06-10 · in πFS

…ps://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=github.com/philipl My favourite issue being about GDPR compliance https://github.com/philipl/pifs/issues/56

comment by charles_f · 2026-06-10 · in πFS

There's always πfs. https://github.com/philipl/pifs

comment by opengrass · 2026-02-16 · in Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD

…library... Kind of already exists, pifs. More like a joke, but the concept is already a joke so... https://github.com/philipl/pifs

comment by _ache_ · 2026-01-13 · in Fabrice Bellard's TS Zip (2024)

Reminded me of pi filesystem ( https://github.com/philipl/pifs ), with enough digits of pi precalculated you might be able to do a decent compression program. The trick is in the amount of reasonable digits for that, if it’s smaller or…

comment by gmuslera · 2026-01-12 · in Fabrice Bellard's TS Zip (2024)

https://github.com/philipl/pifs

comment by latexr · 2025-09-09 · in Chat Control Must Be Stopped

you might be interested in pifs https://github.com/philipl/pifs

comment by Traubenfuchs · 2025-05-22 · in For algorithms, a little memory outweighs a lot of time

it's not directly inspired by tom7, but there's pifs: https://github.com/philipl/pifs

comment by quantumish · 2024-08-09 · in Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn't want or need (2022) [pdf]

https://github.com/philipl/pifs > πfs: Never worry about data again! > πfs is a revolutionary new file system that, instead of wasting space storing your data on your hard drive, stores your data in π! You'll never run out of space again -…

comment by gowld · 2024-07-15 · in Fitting an elephant with four non-zero parameters

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8018818 and https://github.com/philipl/pifs :-)

comment by maxmouchet · 2024-07-15 · in Pi calculation world record with over 202T digits

https://github.com/philipl/pifs

comment by Moosturm · 2024-07-15 · in Pi calculation world record with over 202T digits

https://github.com/philipl/pifs my favorite file system is based on this!

comment by chilie · 2024-03-15 · in Achieving awful compression with digits of pi

…further to every digital file ever. You might both be interested in checking the pi file system. https://github.com/philipl/pifs

comment by latexr · 2024-01-29 · in There Is No Planet B (For Worldbuilding)

You'll like this then: https://github.com/philipl/pifs

comment by HoppyHaus · 2023-10-20 · in Find the date of your birthday in the number pi

https://github.com/philipl/pifs

comment by latexr · 2023-10-20 · in Find the date of your birthday in the number pi

This has been implemented: https://github.com/philipl/pifs

comment by nick-of-time · 2023-09-28 · in AI language models can exceed PNG and FLAC in lossless compression, says study

It "exists" at https://github.com/philipl/pifs

comment by alfanick · 2023-08-20 · in The Stick of Jan Sloot (2004)

https://github.com/philipl/pifs but this is a joke hahaha

comment by melagonster · 2023-03-04 · in 20M digits of pi in 1 minute using Julia

…storage systems similar to IPFS, but the blockchain network only stores the metadata and no data! https://github.com/philipl/pifs

comment by saddist0 · 2023-01-16 · in A formula for the nth digit of 𝜋 and 𝜋^n

πfs: Never worry about data again! - https://github.com/philipl/pifs

comment by imglorp · 2023-01-15 · in A formula for the nth digit of 𝜋 and 𝜋^n

…you can "reconstruct" the audio. Am I illegally violating your copyrights by sharing that? [1] https://github.com/philipl/pifs

comment by xtracto · 2022-11-03 · in We've filed a lawsuit against GitHub Copilot

Use stable diffusion for image compression Store stable diffusion model in the π file system ( https://github.com/philipl/pifs ) "Almost zero overhead in terms of data storage"

comment by lnyan · 2022-09-01 · in Compressing Images with Stable Diffusion

https://github.com/philipl/pifs

comment by BalinKing · 2022-07-09 · in A Surprising Side of Carl Sagan

This is the whole joke of pifs. https://github.com/philipl/pifs

comment by protontorpedo · 2022-04-01 · in Finding Waldo in π

There is πfs: https://github.com/philipl/pifs

comment by FragrantRiver · 2022-04-01 · in Finding Waldo in π

Another victory for PIFS: https://github.com/philipl/pifs

comment by bjarneh · 2022-04-01 · in Finding Waldo in π

Apologies for the bad link. Also: https://github.com/philipl/pifs

comment by h2odragon · 2022-03-14 · in Pi Formulas, Algorithms and Computations (2009)

So this is basically πfs of the crypto world, right? [0]: https://github.com/philipl/pifs

comment by avaika · 2021-12-21 · in All Bitcoin private keys are on this website

…have less of a sense of humor than engineers. [1] https://github.com/Herzult/SimplePHPEasyPlus [2] https://github.com/philipl/pifs [3] https://github.com/hubsmoke/bro [4] https://github.com/jneen/balls

comment by tombert · 2021-12-06 · in No Easter Eggs in Curl

https://github.com/philipl/pifs If we find a way to compute Pi's decimals quickly enough, this FS will become the next big thing :)

comment by linkdd · 2021-11-10 · in Ask HN: Creative/interesting FUSE filesystems?

https://github.com/philipl/pifs That is so cool. And I beg pardon if I sounded dismissive of the OP; it's a great explanation and interesting exploration, thanks.

comment by h2odragon · 2021-10-29 · in Show HN: Transcendental numbers for arbitrary-length One-Time Pads

It reminds me of the pifs [1], which stores data in π - [1] πfs - the data-free filesystem https://github.com/philipl/pifs

comment by lnyan · 2021-09-30 · in How to fit any dataset with a single parameter

> nothing is permanent in life practically yes, but https://github.com/philipl/pifs

comment by hansel_der · 2021-09-08 · in Archive.is owner on “continuity of his project”

…even proven that every digit occurs infinitely many times in the decimal expansion of Pi. [4] So https://github.com/philipl/pifs is wrong in claiming that all byte stream will exist somewhere in Pi (it's not proven). Also it's worth…

comment by anuragbiyani · 2021-04-22 · in From WinZips to GIFs, Jacob Ziv’s Algorithms Have Powered Decades of Compression

…than LZMA, so I don't need a lecture about it, I just thought it was an interesting idea. [1] https://github.com/philipl/pifs

comment by tombert · 2021-04-22 · in From WinZips to GIFs, Jacob Ziv’s Algorithms Have Powered Decades of Compression

This has been done: https://github.com/philipl/pifs

comment by tyilo · 2021-04-12 · in Illegal Prime Numbers

See also: pifs - https://github.com/philipl/pifs

comment by coolspot · 2020-10-19 · in PlentyFS: PoC read-only filesystem with random contents generated on demand

Why even bother with this when you store infinite data in pi[0]? [0] https://github.com/philipl/pifs

comment by sixhobbits · 2020-09-16 · in Due Diligence That Money Can’t Buy

https://github.com/philipl/pifs

comment by sigjuice · 2020-08-26 · in Ask HN: What is a science fact that blew your mind when you learned it?

…to do is search the never-ending π and send people the offset instead. 100% compression here we go. https://github.com/philipl/pifs/ In reality though, searching through Pi to find that offset - especially for bigger files, can take a…

comment by BuildTheRobots · 2020-03-13 · in Finding Mona Lisa in the Game of Life

> https://github.com/philipl/pifs That's brilliant. I also like that you don't need to store the offsets anywhere else, because that metadata is also just data that can itself be found in pi. Actually, that sounds like one of the sects in…

comment by SamBam · 2020-01-14 · in Images Created from Prime Numbers

It's an idea as old as time. Or 8 years, at the very least: https://github.com/philipl/pifs In expectation, a k-digit sequence will require a k-digit number to encode its offset, so there's no compression there. Then again, there's this…

comment by andreareina · 2020-01-14 · in Images Created from Prime Numbers

Somewhat related: https://github.com/philipl/pifs If the expansion of pi is normal then all your data is already in it

comment by vadansky · 2019-10-25 · in Six Nines in Pi

…programming this idea very briefly a couple years ago but I got pulled away for something else. [1] https://github.com/philipl/pifs

comment by tombert · 2019-08-11 · in Hutter Prize: Compress a 100MB file to less than the current record of 16 MB

Of course, describing that subset is itself using bits https://github.com/philipl/pifs

comment by __s · 2019-08-08 · in Metaprogramming for madmen (2012)

even there is a filesystem powered by it ! https://github.com/philipl/pifs

comment by Zardoz84 · 2019-03-17 · in Famous Transcendental Numbers

this is perfect for mounting the Pi filesystem :) https://github.com/philipl/pifs

comment by zimbatm · 2019-03-14 · in Calculating a record-breaking 31.4T digits of Pi with GCP

…not do that). Obvious counterexamples to "just store things in files" are /proc on Linux, pifs ( https://github.com/philipl/pifs ) and Plan9. Note that Perkeep provides a FUSE interface, i.e. you can use files. Being slightly less…

comment by chriswarbo · 2018-09-18 · in Perkeep: personal storage system for life

Here's an implementation of precisely that, as a filesystem: https://github.com/philipl/pifs Discussed here previously (2014): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8018818

comment by amake · 2018-08-01 · in A bootable CD image with a retro game in a single tweet

…information. Someone actually went ahead and implemented a file system based on this idea: https://github.com/philipl/pifs

comment by _jomo · 2018-04-27 · in Illegal prime