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Do I look like I know what a JPEG is?

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Cited on HN 3 times, 2022–2026, never outright recommended score 0

Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026

Posted as a joke when image compression or repeated quality loss comes up.

A King of the Hill clip in which Hank-style character rants about saving images as PNG instead of JPEG after exporting from Windows Paint.

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@fletchowns Nov 2022 Makes a joke

on HN thread Each visit to the page deteriorates the main image

Made me think of the classic "Do I look like I know what a JPEG is?" [this video] (loud audio warning)

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@themafia Feb 2026 Makes a joke

on HN thread Why software stocks are getting pummelled

It has to annotate it too. We've let models do this before. They devolve into an incomprehensible mess in very short order. Errors multiply. Lossy weight compression on erroneous material makes it all that much more worse. [this video]

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@fwlr Jul 2026 Makes a joke

on HN thread We charge $10k a week to delete AI-generated code

I do see the appeal, it’s easy to imagine that workflow working, and working well - but it’s hard to how it avoids this fate: [this video]

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