Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

Will HN put up a black bar, in his memory? I mean almost all http responses these day have Content-Encoding deflate or gzip (or derived algorithm)


Summoning dang (dang do you have a regex for alerting you or just read a lot of comments?)


he should imo. such a foundational technology benefits us all then and now.


Daniel a.k.a. dang may not see this comment. It would be best to email him. [email protected]


I second this.


I third the motion. (But also… I am not expecting it to happen, low public profile people with pivotal or otherwise tremendous work have gone without the black bar treatment quite often mainly because it there does have to be a threshold and it’s all too easy to say they deserve recognition than to make the hard call and decide not to)


Ditto

Also, GIF runs on LZW.




Consider applying for YC's Summer 2026 batch! Applications are open till May 4

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: