Why 8 B matters — and the site that now breathes

ZRW packs zeros×10k (int32, 40 KB raw) to 8 B. Same corpus: gzip-9 → 73 B, brotli-11 → 13 B. That is not a slogan. It is a public standing.

The claim (exact)

Corpus: 10,000 little-endian int32 zeros → 40,000 raw bytes
ZRW (pack v5): 8 bytes
gzip-9: 73 bytes
brotli-11: 13 bytes
Ramp×1k: ZRW 8 B vs brotli ~1132 B (~141×)

Domain-honest: structured integers / zeros / ramps / walks. Industry GPs still win many general-byte cases. We route with OmniWave so one public product covers both lanes.

Verify round-trip (agent or human)

Retired 2026-09-23: the POST /api/omniwave compress endpoint below was removed, so these directions no longer run. The claim itself (ZRW 8 B on zeros×10k) stands as a dated lab result; the live pulse check still works.

# Alive pulse
curl -sS https://www.slidphilabs.com/api/phi/metrics | jq .

# Standings machine copy
curl -sS https://www.slidphilabs.com/standings.json | jq '.scorecard[] | select(.lab=="ZRW") | {metric,lab_value}'

The site now breathes

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