Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderI recently created a zip validator and decoder for scanning email attachments, @ronomon/zip. It's not yet open-sourced but it has defenses against excessive compression ratios, mismatching local and central directory headers, ambiguous filenames, directory traversals and symlink traversals, and anything ambiguous that could exploit differences in zip implementations, e.g. some zip implementations decode from the front while others decode from the back. Most importantly, it balks at deviations from the zip format…
The fact that ZIP files include the catalog/directory at the end is such nostalgia fever. Back in the day it meant that if you naïvely downloaded the file, a partial download would be totally useless. Fortunately, in the early 2000s, we got HTTP's Range and a bunch of zip-aware downloaders that would fetch the catalog first so that you could preview a zip you were downloading and even extract part of a file! Good times. Well, not as good as…
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 671
- Total comments
- 187
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-07-04 | A better zip bombFirst breakout · Best thread | masklinn | 483 | 131 |
| 2025-03-21 | A Better Zip Bomb | fanf2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025-12-19 | A better zip bomb (2019)Latest 20+ point return | kekqqq | 186 | 56 |