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    Michael Bertolami

    bertolami.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2014

    Michael Bertolami writes about data compression, coding agents and side projects, and describes the startup-like production of Star Wars.

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    What HN says

    HN links his compression explainers, including an arithmetic coding post and a Fourier analogy, and a post on Claude's performance varying through the day.

    Stats for nerds
    15HN people shared it
    37linked in comments
    510story points
    Jan 2026last shared
    2015people per year2026

    Top posts on HN

    1. 1
      Perceptual Image Hashing
      3 people · 113 points · first shared 2014 · 34 comments on HN
    2. 2
      A Gentle Introduction to Data Compression
      1 person · 109 points · first shared 2014 · 15 comments on HN
    3. 3
      A Gentle Introduction to Randomized Decision Forests
      1 person · 81 points · first shared 2015 · 2 comments on HN
    4. 4
      Context-Adaptive Binary Arithmetic Coding
      2 people · 36 points · first shared 2015 · 6 comments on HN
    5. 5
      The Knapsack Problem
      1 person · 24 points · first shared 2014 · 45 comments on HN
    6. 6
      20 Years of Side Projects
      3 people · 14 points · first shared 2016 · 1 comments on HN
    7. 7
      Experiments with the Cairo Video Codec
      1 person · 11 points · first shared 2015 · Discussion on HN
    8. 8
      Tools for Video Codec Development
      1 person · 9 points · first shared 2016 · Discussion on HN
    9. 9
      Show HN: Basic Randomized Decision Forest (C++) that reaches 96.5% on MNIST
      1 person · 9 points · first shared 2019 · Discussion on HN
    10. 10
      Negative shift operands in C++
      2 people · 8 points · first shared 2014 · Discussion on HN

    What HN people wrote when they linked it

    • parquorJan 2026

      Does this use a claude subscription or key, and has the account been used for anything else that day?

      On HN a few days ago there was a post suggesting that Claude gets dumber throughout the day: https://bertolami.com/index.php?engine=blog&content=posts&detail=insidious-progressive-intelligence

    • freshtakeDec 2025

      If you're only interested in the gist of the concept and how it can be applied to compression, without the mathematical rigor, here is my go to: https://bertolami.com/index.php?engine=blog&content=posts&detail=the-fourier-colada-analogy

    • tomjen3Aug 2015

      This seems to be the blog post mentioned at the bottom of the read me file:

      http://www.bertolami.com/index.php?engine=blog&content=posts&detail=arithmetic-coding

    • nayukiAug 2015

      Starting from this page: http://www.bertolami.com/index.php , I noticed that many links are implemented in JavaScript and do not support middle-clicking.

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