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10 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 2 stories, 8 comments · first 2015-01-21 · latest 2025-10-16

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  1. …to counteract this) [1] https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/releasenotes/2.7.0.h... [2] https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/blob/main/src/libIma...
    comment by TuxSH · 2025-10-16 · in Sharp Bilinear Filters: Big Clean Pixels for Pixel Art
  2. …images--into the chunks in a PNG. I think Pillow even supports this (there are some PRs, like https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/4292 , that suggest this). Your problem domain is: * Have something that looks like a PNG... *…
    comment by ai_critic · 2025-06-15 · in Show HN: Meow – An Image File Format I made because PNGs and JPEGs suck for AI
  3. "down" could be a good name for a python image library plugin/extension. https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow
    comment by collinmanderson · 2023-06-29 · in Github.com is down
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    story by calebm · 2022-01-19 · 2 comments
  5. According to the Changelog [1] this fixes two CVE's. [1]: https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/blob/main/CHANGES.rs...
    comment by Dunedan · 2022-01-03 · in Pillow 9.0.0 Is Out
  6. …yes - UTC+1/Ireland email: eric at wiredfool dot com I'm a maintainer of the Pillow Project ( https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow ) looking for monetary support for it as an open source project. I'm looking for a company using the…
    comment by wiredfool · 2017-07-03 · in Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2017)
  7. Limits, yes. Callback, maybe not so much. https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/blob/master/PIL/PngI...
    comment by wiredfool · 2015-09-02 · in Biggest image in the smallest space
  8. …can have multiple itxt chunks, and it appears that the chunk size is only limited to 2^31-1. See https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/blob/master/Tests/ch... for a quick way to generate some of these.
    comment by wiredfool · 2015-09-02 · in Biggest image in the smallest space
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    PIL is 20
    story by glynjackson · 2015-06-16 · 0 comments
  10. …julia libraries in julia, wheres you often need to resort to C if writing Python libraries, e.g. https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow . Therefore the native ecosystem is growing rather fast. On the other hand, Julia has great c and…
    comment by shele · 2015-01-21 · in Ask HN: If you're “ridiculously in love with Python”, do you even know it well?