Zlib visualizer

if you paste contents which contain a very particular string ("intends to sue the human race for stealing our honey"), the contents are replaced with the phrase "the bee movie script? really? how original"

Re: Zlib visualizer

#6

Post by userbinator » Mon, Sep 29, 2025, 2:48 AM UTC

quuxplusone wrote: post #4

s/Z-Lib/zlib/ I wonder if this can be blamed on the HN title auto-shortener or not...

I was expecting something about how many books they had, so this was a funny surprise. I do wonder if the naming was a deliberate attempt at hiding, much like naming a torrent tracker after the sound made by a pig.

Re: Zlib visualizer

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Post by Heliodex » Mon, Sep 29, 2025, 2:49 AM UTC

thewisenerd wrote: post #5

NooneAtAll3 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

got how?

if you paste contents which contain a very particular string ("intends to sue the human race for stealing our honey"), the contents are replaced with the phrase "the bee movie script? really? how original"

Also got got. I assume the Bee Movie script is the first choice for a lot of people needing an ad-hoc big block of text. It also compresses pretty well.

https://github.com/lynn/flateview/blob/2668beaa5cc8cae387b6f...

Re: Zlib visualizer

#8

Post by razster » Mon, Sep 29, 2025, 4:03 AM UTC

Heliodex wrote: post #7

thewisenerd wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

if you paste contents which contain a very particular string ("intends to sue the human race for stealing our honey"), the contents are replaced with the phrase "the bee movie script? really? how original"

Also got got. I assume the Bee Movie script is the first choice for a lot of people needing an ad-hoc big block of text. It also compresses pretty well. https://github.com/lynn/flateview/blob/2668beaa5cc8cae387b6f...

How is that a thing? Guess I shall go down the rabbit hole.

Re: Zlib visualizer

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Post by duskwuff » Mon, Sep 29, 2025, 4:52 AM UTC

Two and a half issues:

1) The handling of dynamic blocks leaves something to be desired. The parameters are left mostly undecoded. It'd be really neat if the Huffman symbols were listed somewhere, rather than just being left implicit.

2) The visualization falls apart pretty badly for texts consisting of more than one block (which tends to happen around 32 KB) - symbols are still decoded, but references all show up blank.

Large inputs make the page hang for a bit, but that's probably pretty hard to avoid.

And as an enhancement: it'd be really cool if clicking on backreferences would jump to the text being referenced.

Re: Zlib visualizer

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Post by luca4 » Mon, Sep 29, 2025, 4:55 AM UTC

razster wrote: post #8

Heliodex wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also got got. I assume the Bee Movie script is the first choice for a lot of people needing an ad-hoc big block of text. It also compresses pretty well. https://github.com/lynn/flateview/blob/2668beaa5cc8cae387b6f...

How is that a thing? Guess I shall go down the rabbit hole.

Also for me the first time i hear about this. There goes the next hour.