Sharp
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5recommend
2warn against
Dec 15, 2025first mention
Aug 18, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“sharp does this too”
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“This is impressive as hell”
“It is an amazing library! Been using it for years.”
“Works great, model file is 2.8 GB”
Caveats and dissent
“a redeploy that recompiled Sharp just crashed the full VM (out of memory)”
runs side projects on a small VMon “Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking good”
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Threads where it came up
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- Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking good 1 mention
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- Show HN: Apple's Sharp Running in the Browser via ONNX Runtime Web 1 mention
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All comments 14
“a redeploy that recompiled Sharp just crashed the full VM (out of memory)”
“sharp does this too”
“sharp does not rebuild libvips, it downloads a pre-compiled libvips”
“Good! I like the pipeline workflow.”
“This is impressive as hell”
“Happy to discuss the details if anyone is building on Sharp + SVG compositing.”
“It's using Apple's SHARP method, which is monocular.”
“Where Sharp still wins (blur, crop, etc.)”
“Hugging Face model: https://huggingface.co/apple/Sharp”
“This should all be coming to sharp in the next six month or so.”
“It is an amazing library! Been using it for years.”
“Works great, model file is 2.8 GB”
“I did it myself, if anyone wants to check out the result”
“cuda gpu only”