Show HN: A brand new, "highly optimised" image format for the next generation

by bstsbon 2/2/2025, 1:33 PMwith 2 comments

hey there hn!

thought you would appreciate my brand new file format - i've spent over 40 minutes creating this standard. it's really hard trying to get your ideas shown to standards boards etc but i think with the great community here we can help get bioif support into all major browsers :)

the spec is available over at the website, as is a reference implementation. it already has higher usage than jpeg-xl.

- best

by pentaphobeon 2/2/2025, 4:58 PM

This is spectacular!

Not nearly enough bespoke work going into building such forward-looking technology standards

Best of luck with it

by crazygringoon 2/2/2025, 5:59 PM

Love this.

You've pushed literate programming so far you turned it into a file format.

Image compression is easy too, just reduce the font size.

A picture's worth a thousand words, maybe even more!