[ElijahLynn]

Very good read, love some of the humor in this article. It helped me get through to the end!!

Also, If anyone was wondering where AV1 stands in comparison to VP8 and VP9... I just looked it up after a few years of not paying attention and I guess Google donated VP8 and VP9 to the alliance for open media foundation (AOMedia) in 2015 and they created AV1 and released it in 2018.

[MrRadar]

Yeah, AV1 is primarily based on what Google was working on for their own successor to VP9, what would have been VP10, with technology contributions from Mozilla/Xiph's Daala and Cisco's Thor codecs.

[singhkays]

Thank you. Weaving in humor and wit was a conscious choice :) Based on some of the comments above, I might have gone a little overboard.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45446589

[ElijahLynn]

No, it was perfect!