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raphlinus | on: Nibnib: Image compression with extreme decompression speed
If you have an Adafruit Fruit Jam, you can run the demo on that board [1]. It can stream 640x480 video off an SD card at 60fps, as well as display a static image from flash.

Also possibly of interest to HN, the decoder[2] is written in a new low level language called symbolasm[3], which seeks to combine the advantages of assembly language (it's possible to reason about and optimize performance with few limits) with some of the affordances of C, especially named variables and struct fields.

[1]: https://github.com/raphlinus/vic-2350

[2]: https://github.com/raphlinus/vic-2350/blob/main/image.sy

[3]: https://github.com/raphlinus/symbolasm

derefr | parent | next
> especially named variables and struct fields

Don’t you get this from most macro assemblers? I know I’ve seen some very old and crusty ASM that nevertheless does structured programming and even limited OOP through macro-ASM facilities.

(That being said, symbolasm looks 1000x more ergonomic and “also communicates developer intent”-laden than any macro ASM ever did; and also is probably something you could learn once, while a project’s macros are specific to said project.)

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the-tomster | parent | next
Cool projects! symbolasm looks awesome. Brings back memories of playing around with fasm on MenuetOS and trying to wrap my head around assembler.
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skiialing | parent
At least some of your projects are vibe-coded, right? You mention using LLMs in both some of the repositories and some of your Hacker News comments.
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