https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Broiler9437Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:52:35 +0000Definitely not with lossless. It consistently lose to JXL and WebP

]]>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:52:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49997201Broiler9437https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49997201https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49997201Being a well supported format on all OSs will allow that. One of the biggest failure of WebP was very poor native support beyond browsers. JXL is supported natively by pretty much all operating systems right now beside Android. JPEG recompression is simply an advantage

]]>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:22:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49996764Broiler9437https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49996764https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49996764It looks fine sure, but that doesn't make it good either. Are you going to lock display technology to 8 bit forever? Most PC monitors already match or exceeding that limit, phones especially. HDR is something that needs to happen eventually, and for that new format is very important

]]>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:11:56 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49996600Broiler9437https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49996600https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49996600I mean we are already dealing with that nowadays. Many PNGs are either JPEG in a different package or straight up lossy compressed. Unfotunately extensions have never been safe for judge

]]>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:04:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49996480Broiler9437https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49996480https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49996480Art sites get the biggest gain with JXL. They can losslessly repackage every single JPEG uploads they have for practically zero cost. Existing PNG can also be losslessly compressed to JXL too, and just wrapping JXL around PNG yields improved compression (Note for last part: it is still in proposal status)

]]>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 16:18:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49994926Broiler9437https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49994926https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49994926Google Photo teams wanted JXL too, but had to hold back due to Chromium not supporting them

]]>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:50:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49713443Broiler9437https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49713443https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49713443I have no issue with EXIF here. Compressed JPEGs were reverted with zero data lost

]]>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:13:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49712839Broiler9437https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49712839https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49712839