Encoder Farm

What it does

Cut your video encoding costs by 90 percent. Eliminate startup bill anxiety with no hidden fees, bandwidth charges or per minute costs.

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  LimeOps2023 · ▲213

  Cut your AWS cloud cost up to 40%

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  Overfitted a 900KB Transformer to Compress a 100MB CSV into 7MBJun 2026 · ▲112

  I built an experiment that uses an overfitted transformer and arithmetic coding to compress individual files. Instead of training the model to generalize, I train a 900KB transformer to memorize a single file and predict the next byte. Those predictions are fed into an arithmetic coder to produce the compressed output. On a 100MB NYC taxi CSV, it compresses to about 7MB (~0.5 bits/byte). On a 100MB slice of enwik9, it compresses to about 21MB (~1.68 bits/byte). It's pretty slow right now (roughly 20–30 minutes of training and 45 minutes each for compression and decompression on my…

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  I compressed 10k PDFs into a 1.4GB video for LLM memory2025 · github.com · ▲61

  While building a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system, I was frustrated by my vector database consuming 8GB RAM just to search my own PDFs. After incurring $150 in cloud costs, I had an unconventional idea: what if I encoded my documents into video frames? The concept sounded absurd—storing text in video? But modern video codecs have been optimized for compression over decades. So, I converted text into QR codes, then encoded those as video frames, letting H.264/H.265 handle the compression. The results were surprising. 10,000 PDFs compressed down to a 1.4GB video file. Search…

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  SlashedCloud2024 · slashed.cloud · ▲4

  The cheapest video encoding in the world

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  Cut your AWS costs by stopping non-production resources when not needed2022 · ▲59

  Hello HN community! Sri and Brian here from CloudPal (https://www.cloudpal.io/). We are building a tool to help companies reduce their cloud costs by stopping non-production resources when they’re not needed. The problem: Almost every company on the cloud struggles with cost management. While optimizing production costs can be complex, reducing non-production costs should be a straightforward case of shutting down resources when they’re not in use. However, most companies lack an elegant solution for this. The solution: CloudPal - A downtime scheduler for non-production…

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  I built a service to help companies reduce AWS spend by 50%2022 · usage.ai · ▲123

  Hey HN: Kaveh here, the founder of https://www.usage.ai/ We help companies drive down AWS EC2 spend. Why? Because the way it's done now is a pain. DevOps and Software Engineers end up spending time managing costs rather than focusing on business problems. Previous to founding Usage, I worked on high-performance computing research at JP Morgan Chase and as a software engineer at a number of smaller startups. Here's how it works: We are typically brought in by a DevOps manager to cut AWS EC2 costs. The app is entirely self-service and the savings are generated automatically,…

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  /dev/null▲472

  a social network for devs

  Dev tools · 2d ago · dev-null.sh

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  Whiteboard (YC W26) – an open-source IDE for thoughtful software design▲423

  open-source IDE for thoughtful software design. Contribute to devdotfast/whiteboard development by creating an account on GitHub.

  Dev tools · 27d ago · github.com

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  Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things▲411

  Contribute to reladraw/reladraw development by creating an account on GitHub.

  Dev tools · 25d ago · github.com

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  OpenBot▲362

  Grok Bot alternative: free, local, open-source, multiplayer

  Dev tools · 22d ago · openbot.run

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  Talanoa▲340

  Hi HN, I’m a fullstack developer, and honestly, I’ve lost count of how many side projects I’ve worked on over the years. But one idea kept coming back to me: a different kind of email client. It first came to me in 2014: “What if we could handle emails more like conversations?” Every year, I’d revisit this concept in my “Build Notes.” Ten years later, no one had built exactly what I had in mind — so I finally decided to do it myself. That’s how Talanoa was born. I wanted something focused on people, not timelines. I was tired of marking messages as unread just to remember to reply later, or…

  Dev tools · 20d ago · talanoa.email

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  CoreSpeed▲332

  One MCP for everything your agents need: apps, memory, tools

  Dev tools · 27d ago · corespeed.io

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  Notion 2.0▲2,156

  The all-in-one workspace - notes, tasks, wikis, & databases

  Work · 2018 · notion.so

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  MAKE Book: The Indie Maker Handbook▲1,372

  Learn to build profitable startups the indie way

  Dev tools · 2018 · readmake.com

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  Overflow▲1,139

  The world’s first user flow diagramming tool for designers

  Work · 2018 · overflow.io

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  RoughJS – Create hand-drawn graphics using JavaScript▲1,087

  Rough.js is a light weight javascript library that lets you draw graphics with a hand-drawn, sketchy, appearance.

  Life & fun · 2018 · roughjs.com

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  Sunsama▲999

  If Trello & Google Calendar had a baby.

  Work · 2018 · sunsama.com

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  Airtable Blocks▲877

  500,000+ brands use Airtable to enable real-time collaboration, automate repetitive tasks & manual work, and streamline business processes in minutes. Join them.

  Dev tools · 2018 · airtable.com