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DarkShikari

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I'm the lead developer of the x264 project and also an ffmpeg developer. I do consulting and contract-coding work related to video compression; more details can be found here, along with a CV: http://x264.nl/developers/Dark_Shikari/CV.pdf .

My blog: http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/

My email: jason@x264.com

  1. AVX2 optimizations in x264 followup: overall results (mailman.videolan.org)
    24 points 1
  2. Introduction to AVX2 optimizations in x264 (scribd.com)
    75 points 23
  3. Ask HN: How to pay developers in Europe?

    I just paid out the first quarter's profit shares for my startup, x264 LLC (commercial licensing arm of the x264 open source project). However, the majority of the major developers for the project are in Europe, so the…

    35 points 18
  4. x264 in Google Summer of Code 2011 (wiki.videolan.org)
    4 points 0
  5. The first in-depth technical analysis of VP8 (x264dev.multimedia.cx)
    275 points 64
  6. x264 project announces first open source Blu-ray encoder (x264dev.multimedia.cx)
    99 points 17
  7. Flash, Google, VP8, and the future of Internet video (x264dev.multimedia.cx)
    78 points 21
  8. On2 shareholders approve Google merger (timesunion.com)
    35 points 25
  9. How we created the world's best low-latency video streaming system (x264dev.multimedia.cx)
    79 points 19
  10. Transcendent Memory: making use of non-persistent storage (gossamer-threads.com)
    7 points 4
  11. A curious SIMD assembly challenge: the zigzag (x264dev.multimedia.cx)
    16 points 3
  12. Intel kills consumer Larrabee (semiaccurate.com)
    15 points 9
  13. "There is absolutely no design document whatsoever...[it] lives in Sid's brain." (gamasutra.com)
    107 points 31
  14. The other hidden cycle-eating demon: code cache misses (x264dev.multimedia.cx)
    45 points 7
  15. Zeus/Zbot: anatomy of a malware engine (blog.threatexpert.com)
    31 points 0
  16. X264's abstraction layer for cross-platform x86 assembly: now free to use (x264dev.multimedia.cx)
    75 points 12
  17. Open source collaboration done right (x264dev.multimedia.cx)
    62 points 1
  18. More fuel on the BFS vs. CFS fire (thread.gmane.org)
    27 points 5
  19. Using Google Trends' hot topics to help spread malware (blog.threatexpert.com)
    13 points 0
  20. JPEGrescan: unique way to losslessly shrink any JPEG file (pastebin.com)
    54 points 11
  21. The hidden cycle-eating demon: L1 cache misses (x264dev.multimedia.cx)
    55 points 12
  22. Ask HN: Legal resources for startups?

    The answer to so many questions is "speak with a lawyer", but how does one find a good lawyer for a particular field in the first place? For example, to write a proprietary software license agreement to find some…

    18 points 3
  23. The Art of Commit Messages (x264dev.multimedia.cx)
    3 points 0
  24. TinEye: image recognition search (tineye.com)
    76 points 28
  25. Erlang: It's time to be uncomfortably parallel (youtube.com)
    6 points 1