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Do I look like I know what a JPEG is?

BobRobsterCited 3× on HN, 2022–2026
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comedy · general · evergreen · 2022–2026 on HN

A King of the Hill clip in which Hank-style character rants about saving images as PNG instead of JPEG after exporting from Windows Paint.

Posted as a joke when image compression or repeated quality loss comes up.

Film & TV clipsInformation theory & signal processing#kingofthehill#jpeg#imagecompression#meme

3 comments from Hacker News

@fwlr2026-07 · in “We charge $10k a week to delete AI-generated code”

I do see the appeal, it’s easy to imagine that workflow working, and working well - but it’s hard to how it avoids this fate: ▶ this video

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@themafia2026-02 · in “Why software stocks are getting pummelled”

It has to annotate it too. We've let models do this before. They devolve into an incomprehensible mess in very short order. Errors multiply. Lossy weight compression on erroneous material makes it all that much more worse. ▶ this video

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@fletchowns2022-11 · in “Each visit to the page deteriorates the main image”

Made me think of the classic "Do I look like I know what a JPEG is?" ▶ this video (loud audio warning)

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