Show HN: Empire Compression – 2GB → 8MB (99.6% SHA-Verified, CPU Only)
by EntropyRaider | 2025-10-14 11:24:05+00:00
Empire Technologies LLC — Prior Art Flag (One-Time Publication)

Email: Empire.Technology@proton.me

We are releasing prior art documentation for a proprietary, real-world file compressor built by Empire Technologies LLC.

This system is not theoretical, benchmark-tuned, or optimized for small files. It was engineered for extremely large, high-entropy real-world data, and delivers major compression gains that are measurable, repeatable, and already in operation.

Claim

This is a prior public disclosure of capabilities and performance, to prevent future IP conflicts and establish existence. The compressor:

Is a custom file-agnostic universal compressor

Uses no GPU or hardware acceleration (CPU only)

Targets gigabyte → terabyte raw files (not synthetic toy datasets)

Achieves consistently measurable compression ratios on hard targets

Outputs fully decompressible results with full bit-matching (SHA-256)

Is real and independently testable

Verified Cryptographic Exhibits (select, timestamped)

ECC = Empire Compressed Container (public, neutral label replacing internal extension names). Each exhibit below corresponds to a file pair recorded in Empire timestamp manifests / Proof Pack (anchor: 2025-09-18) and is verifiable by SHA-256 and the recorded timestamps.

test_large_rebuild.bin → ECC 10,485,760 bytes → 41,180 bytes — 99.607% reduction (≈254.6×) SHA-256 (orig): dc248188b5d92e9f6538f43aa3b6d248d41bb3cd20a1a0c44c1fcfba5df7d06e SHA-256 (comp): 6cf64fc57004de5b588c274ddf7468e8c9e4a324e388257c9b45f8a77e093fe5

logs_2gb.txt → ECC 2,147,483,648 bytes → 8,429,071 bytes — 99.607% reduction (≈254.7×) SHA-256 (orig): a7c744c13cc101ed66c29f672f92455547889cc586ce6d44fe76ae824958ea51 SHA-256 (comp): 2025a39d56e2c0ce92a66b466580d7a74591aafd907acc3409189d27aff7cec4

ai_model_2gb.safetensors → ECC 2,147,483,648 bytes → 6,322,575 bytes — 99.71% reduction (≈339.7×) (SHA-256 orig/comp recorded in Proof Pack manifests)

title.basics.tsv → ECC 1,028,297,196 bytes → 336,963,580 bytes — reduction verified SHA-256 (orig): 9b08efac9f39f1362d839a20b900200c63a79ec048aed1083f4b9db5a7d542e4 SHA-256 (comp): a53f0036f9deee3467f65983ed441f241942222453357bfdd4ab87fe8af11c79

GDELT_Full_Size_File_6.427GB → ECC reduced 6,581,409,407 bytes → 1,918,387,416 bytes — ~71.69% reduction SHA-256 (orig): 515c11ef23eb1d261cf9da3e2c0e323d22f7db07e41cd1545570407008de1812 SHA-256 (comp): 98477ad0b84ee556519022473850f6ee63f6c3af675a5a6338fea0f780d8a849

Full Proof Pack JSONs and MASTER_PROOF are retained by Empire Technologies LLC and may be provided under NDA. The entries above are the minimal cryptographic anchors for public verification.

Consumer Rig Throughput Exhibit

Single NVMe lane sustained ~2.1 GB/s. Dual NVMe lanes sustained ~3.8 GB/s on a 95 GB continuous payload, with recorded peak spikes near 24 GB/s in isolated runs. I/O starvation, not compute limits, was observed. These consumer-rig runs produced the same ultra-collapse behavior on 2 GB-class inputs (254×–339×; 99.60%–99.71% reduction). See Proof Pack speed manifests for telemetry.

Minimal Verification Steps

Compute SHA-256 of original and ECC outputs

Windows PowerShell: Get-FileHash -Algorithm SHA256 C:\path\to\file

Linux/macOS: sha256sum /path/to/file

Compare with hashes listed above.

Decompress using Empire decompressor in sandbox: empire_decompress -i ECC_file -o recovered_file Then verify: sha256sum recovered_file (must equal SHA-256(original))

Timestamp linkage: Proof Pack JSON manifests contain matching SHA-256 values with timestamp marker 2025-09-18. Public posting date establishes external publication timestamp.

This is a single publication event. No further clarification will be issued.

Empire Technologies LLC — End of notice.