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Do I look like I know what a JPEG is?

8.5M views · May 27, 2013 · 0:06 · 0 HN recommenders · 3 mentions · discussed 2022–2026

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.

Why Hacker News points people here: Posted as a joke when image compression or repeated quality loss comes up.

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JokefletchownsNov 2022

“Made me think of the classic”

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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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JokethemafiaFeb 2026
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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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JokefwlrJul 2026
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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

in “We charge $10k a week to delete AI-generated code” · view on HN