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How “xz” trended on Hacker News

“Xz” was mentioned 3,503 times on Hacker News between 2009 and 2026, peaking in Mar 2024 with 1,125 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often “xz” appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

Top Hacker News stories about “xz”

1. 1.Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise 4,549 points · 1,849 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
2. 2.XZ backdoor: "It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unreplayable." 1,323 points · 810 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Timeline of the xz open source attack 1,069 points · 461 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Xzbot: Notes, honeypot, and exploit demo for the xz backdoor 849 points · 469 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
5. 5.The xz attack shell script 606 points · 312 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Xz: Can you spot the single character that disabled Linux landlock? 538 points · 313 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Xz/liblzma: Bash-stage Obfuscation Explained 535 points · 128 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Xz: A microcosm of the interactions in open source projects 526 points · 341 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Why are tar.xz files 15x smaller when using Python's tar compared to macOS tar? 505 points · 150 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
10. 10.The xz sshd backdoor rabbithole goes quite a bit deeper 452 points · 286 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
11. 11.XZ backdoor story – Initial analysis 406 points · 250 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Tox: A simple, distributed, free, secure Skype replacement. Now alpha with A/V 345 points · 139 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN

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