A developer has demonstrated a novel party trick: storing a fully functional website inside a favicon—the tiny icon that appears in your browser tab. The feat, shared on Hacker News, likely uses data URIs or similar encoding techniques to compress HTML, CSS, and JavaScript into the image file itself. It's the kind of creative engineering that serves no practical purpose but perfectly captures how developers love to push technical boundaries just to see if it's possible.

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