lossy-git
Ranked 21 of 26 version control systems by recommenders
Playful free project whose web demo runs version control and a neural network in the browser. Critics find it less impressive and somewhat incoherent.
Playful free project whose web demo runs version control and a neural network in the browser. Critics find it less impressive and somewhat incoherent.
8 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 75%
Recommended in 1 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 3 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 1 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Fun, amusing, cool project
“This was more interesting/amusing than the OP!”
Comment from 21 Oct 2026 in “LayerFS: A filesystem for AI coding agents” “That is so silly, I love it.”
Comment from 22 Oct 2026 in “WorldTUI: I trained a 360M model to pretend to be a terminal” “That's very cool project.”
Comment from 22 Oct 2026 in “WorldTUI: I trained a 360M model to pretend to be a terminal”
Other version control systems people recommend
The four most recommended other version control systems, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Git | 814 | 503 | 62% | 13 | 15 yrs42 owners | — |
| Jujutsu (jj) | 335 | 106 | 76% | 13 | 1 yr21 owners | Approved |
| Mercurial | 121 | 43 | 74% | 12 | 19 yrs7 owners | Approved |
| jj (Jujutsu) | 115 | 37 | 76% | 12 | 1 yr7 owners | Approved |
| lossy-gitThis page | 6 | 2 | 75% | 1 | — | — |
What people said
8 of the 9 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“"i lossily compressed a few kilobytes into a couple of gigabytes" sounds a lot less impressive”
“I had just created the cli version”
“That is so silly, I love it.”
“Something like this might work well for managing long context for LLMs!”
“right now it seems a bit incoherent”
“That's very cool project.”
“The web demo runs entirely on the browser, both the version control and the neural network training/inference.”
“This was more interesting/amusing than the OP!”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.