Hacker News: jwilk

Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions

jwilk — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:53:13 +0000

Article URL: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1061544/125f911834966dd0/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47324087

Points: 376

# Comments: 289

As ye clone(), so shall ye AUTOREAP

jwilk — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 11:46:15 +0000

Article URL: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1059673/57cdcdf73570ac75/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47164777

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Security incident on plone GitHub org with force pushes

jwilk — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 19:37:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/01/31/2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46839985

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

GNU InetUtils Security Advisory: remote authentication by-pass in telnetd

jwilk — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 15:50:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/01/20/2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46693096

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

A free and open-source rootkit for Linux

jwilk — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 09:36:25 +0000

Article URL: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1053099/19c2e8180aeb0438/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46666288

Points: 218

# Comments: 40

The difficulty of safe path traversal

jwilk — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 09:59:06 +0000

Article URL: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1050887/0b4b5ddee1f0745e/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46539271

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

A “frozen” dictionary for Python

jwilk — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 09:51:47 +0000

Article URL: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1047238/25c270b077849dc0/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46229467

Points: 191

# Comments: 167

New comment by jwilk in "APT Rust requirement raises questions"

jwilk — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 21:02:19 +0000

Yes, you can do "apt-get install --dry-run ./nyancat_1.5.2-0.2_i386.deb" these days.

New comment by jwilk in "APT Rust requirement raises questions"

jwilk — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 20:47:59 +0000

> Their signed package formats (there are two) add extra sections to the `ar` archive for the signature

APT does not verify package-level signatures (and nobody uses them anyway), so this is irrelevant.

Explicit Lazy Imports for Python

jwilk — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 16:22:13 +0000

Article URL: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1041120/30c6c05448286112/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45683720

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by jwilk in "The need to reliably preserve our community history"

jwilk — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 06:59:11 +0000

Here you go:

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1034849/cdf566666c71e5de/

Linux's Missing CRL Infrastructure

jwilk — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 15:33:09 +0000

Article URL: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1033809/7e09f8ffef8c4d2a/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45014973

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by jwilk in "OpenFreeMap survived 100k requests per second"

jwilk — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 15:41:58 +0000

From the HN Guidelines <https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html>:

> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that".

New comment by jwilk in "Vet is a safety net for the curl | bash pattern"

jwilk — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 14:34:59 +0000

If bat is not available, vet uses less, which is not a faithful pager:

https://github.com/jwilk/unfaithful-less

It seems at least some versions of bat have the same problem, but I didn't look into the details.

Understanding Debian's Security Processes

jwilk — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 16:52:31 +0000

Article URL: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1030669/e8d557e4854dca70/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44661318

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by jwilk in "Fstrings.wtf"

jwilk — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 14:23:13 +0000

str.format() can be cursed too, e.g.:

  >>> '{:{}{}}'.format('m', 'o<2', 3)
  'moooooooooooooooooooooo'

New comment by jwilk in "Cats as Horror Movie Villains"

jwilk — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 07:56:50 +0000

> canid predators like hyenas

Hyenas are not canids; they are feliformia ("cat-like" carnivorans).

New comment by jwilk in "Bash-5.3-Release Available"

jwilk — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 14:32:39 +0000

Original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44480845 (1 comment at the moment)

New comment by jwilk in "Physical Limits of Computation"

jwilk — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 10:45:28 +0000

(2008)

Discussed in 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16002444 (5 comments)

New comment by jwilk in "Deep Down the Rabbit Hole: Bash, OverlayFS, and a 30-Year-Old Surprise"

jwilk — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 19:58:44 +0000

> Once the bug report becomes publicly visible, it will be linked here.

Here it is: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2025-06/msg00149...