Show HN: Codebook of 450k+ unique words and phrases acts as a text compressor
smalltorch
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May 10, 2026
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smalltorch
I set out to make a codebook but ended up with a pretty neat text compressor. On average it seems like I can compress my message by a factor of 2. Here is the repo if you want to tinker around. https://gitlab.com/here_forawhile/ed