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The original LZEXE (A.K.A. Kosinski) compressor source code has been released

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124 points elvis70 | 3 comments | 30 Jun 25 19:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.481s | source
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johndoe0815 ◴[30 Jun 25 20:40 UTC] No.44427617[source]▶
Whow, another well-known piece of software that was written by Fabrice Bellard. He's also the original author of qemu, tinyemu, tcc, ffmpeg and many more.

https://bellard.org

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1. mrkramer ◴[30 Jun 25 21:15 UTC] No.44427959[source]▶
His track record is exceptional, he must be a Godlike programmer!
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2. ddalex ◴[01 Jul 25 09:55 UTC] No.44432245[source]▶
I'm big fan of Monsieur Bellard, not because he made things complicated, but because he made things simple.

I read through the original source of qemu and the tiny C compiler and the simplicity and beauty of the code are outstanding.

3. theandrewbailey ◴[01 Jul 25 10:23 UTC] No.44432402[source]▶
The only other person I can think of with a similar rank is John Carmack.