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Siorki
RegPack
JavaScript2014–2022
Siorki / RegPack

RegPack

Self-contained packer for size-constrained JS code

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What it is

Self-contained packer for size-constrained JS code

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

I love these tiny decoders, even if their use cases are limited. To me this is as much art as it is programming. For Javascript I ran into these two recently: Tiny LZW(ish)…

jansan used a recommendation phrase. One indexed comment matches. This is a phrase match, not a verdict.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-11-23 08:58:18 UTC to 2022-06-07 08:36:01 UTC.

012014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

3 sources
jansan·Jun 7, 2022Recommendation phrase
I love these tiny decoders, even if their use cases are limited. To me this is as much art as it is programming. For Javascript I ran into these two recently: Tiny LZW(ish) encoder/decoder. The decoder is 141 bytes: https://gist.github.com/mr5z/d3b653ae9b82bb8c4c2501a06f3931c... RegPack, a non-standard encoding, but an awesome approach for small chunks (1-4KByte is optimal) of self contained compressed code, using regular expressions for decoding: https://github.com/Siorki/RegPack
In Show HN: Micro LZMA decoder (x86 assembly code golf)

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