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Re:Compressor.io – Compress and optimize your images by Sir_Cmpwn on Thursday May 22, 2014 @02:37AM (#7782444)
This isn't magic, it's just optipng. I did this locally and got the same file (literally, with the same md5sum):

    optipng -o 3 foobar.png
Also, MediaCrush does the same thing transparently+losslessly when you upload a number of files, and it's open source. https://github.com/MediaCrush/MediaCrush
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Re:Compressor.io – Compress and optimize your images by darthgoogle on Thursday May 22, 2014 @05:19AM (#7782876)
Has anybody tried Piped Piper?
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Re:Compressor.io – Compress and optimize your images by michaelmior on Thursday May 22, 2014 @06:48AM (#7783128)
Their Weissman scores are incredible!
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Re:Compressor.io – Compress and optimize your images by actionscripted on Thursday May 22, 2014 @01:14PM (#7784916)
Why bother with Pied Piper? Nucleus will launch soon and I'd rather trust my data to an established brand like Hooli than an unknown startup.
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Re:Compressor.io – Compress and optimize your images by DeerSpotter on Thursday May 22, 2014 @05:31PM (#7786689)
im working on something similar, it gave me an insight i thought i forgot about a bit ago.
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Re:Compressor.io – Compress and optimize your images by winslow on Thursday May 22, 2014 @12:45PM (#7784745)
Yeah, but their 3D video compression sucks
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Re:Compressor.io – Compress and optimize your images by cbr on Thursday May 22, 2014 @03:43PM (#7785978)
Another open source option is PageSpeed, which does it on the fly as an Apache/Nginx plugin.

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/module

(Disclaimer: I work on this.)

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Re:Compressor.io – Compress and optimize your images by tagawa on Thursday May 22, 2014 @02:55AM (#7782484)
Maybe for that image, but I got totally different results with a sample PNG (with Compressor being much smaller than optipng).
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Re:Compressor.io – Compress and optimize your images by Sir_Cmpwn on Thursday May 22, 2014 @03:00AM (#7782496)
Did you set it to lossless? I didn't investigate the lossy conversion because I can't stand lossy compression.

Edit: Just tested with another image, same result.

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