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xz compression in Go

5 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 0 stories, 5 comments · first 2024-03-29 · latest 2026-02-26

Mentions per year 5 mentions · busiest year 2024 (4)
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  1. …org/node/everything-i-know-about-the-xz-backdo... This is the scariest part to me: > A pull request ( https://github.com/jamespfennell/xz/pull/2 ) to a go library by a 1Password employee is opened asking to upgrade the library to the…
    comment by ting0 · 2026-02-26 · in Story of XZ Backdoor [video]
  2. Hey all, I’m the author of that PR. Just posted to Github with additional context: https://github.com/jamespfennell/xz/pull/2#issuecomment-2027...
  3. …to get them to update dependencies. I think the timing is comically bad, but I can vouch for Jared. https://github.com/jamespfennell/xz/pull/2
  4. …an outlier, the other attacker accounts were cutouts. So this doesn't quite make sense to me. [1] https://github.com/jamespfennell/xz/pull/2/commits
  5. …years ago I wrote a Go library that wraps the xz C code and allows you to do xz compression in Go: https://github.com/jamespfennell/xz About a week ago I received the first PR on that repo, to upgrade to 5.6.1. I thought it was odd to get…