What does HackerNews think of base32768?
Binary-to-text encoding highly optimised for UTF-16
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JavaScript
That was very funny (read to the end!).
I've read most of qntm's books [1] and enjoyed them greatly. See also hatetris [2] and absurdle [3].
Also qntm invented base32768 [4] encoding which is in use by many happy rclone users to store long encrypted file names more efficiently on storage systems which are based in UTF-16 (eg OneDrive, Dropbox, Box).
https://github.com/github/dmca/commit/e672d697b36e82007f2f7c...
js files with embedded base32768 encoded data that when run creates fun files.
1. run "node dmca.js" to get a "Justin Timberlake - Tunnel Vision (Official Music Video) (Explicit).mp3" file
2. "node youtube.dl.js" to get a "youtube-dl-master.zip" file
The page for base32768 has some efficiency charts for different binary to text encodings on top of different UTF encodings, as well as how many bytes you can use them to stuff in a tweet. Depends on where you're going to house the data, I guess.