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Bernát Gábor
Personal blog · bernat.tech/postsprogrammingsecurity
Bernát Gábor's personal blog at bernat.tech covers programming and security. Since 2018, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “The state of type hints in Python”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Bernát Gábor's posts on Python type hints and on Node.js and TypeScript. One commenter cites the type-hints post's interface stub files option.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Engineering notes from Bernát Gábor, PyPA maintainer of tox, virtualenv, pipx, filelock and platformdirs: Python packaging, typing and supply chain security.
Most-linked posts?
- The state of type hints in Python4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-05-31
- The State of Python Packaging3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-02-09
- Defense in Depth: A Practical Guide to Python Supply Chain Security3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-03-12
- PyCon US 2026 Typing Summit Recap2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-15
What Hacker News says?
> Typescript IS javascript, so of course it inherits all of its problems. The data structures and standard libraries are what you get from JS, nothing more. It's called a programming langauge but its more of an extension to JS with a powerful compiler. That's pretty much my point. > he typing system is what is special though, especially in how seamless it is in adding strict types alongside pure dynamic objects, but…
Comment linking /the-state-of-type-hints-in-python/
on “Things I Regret About Node.js [video]”Submitted The state of type hints in Python as a story · 159 points
HN discussionIsn't that exactly what is possible with "3. Interface stub files"? https://www.bernat.tech/the-state-of-type-hints-in-python/#3...
Comment linking /the-state-of-type-hints-in-python/
on “The state of type hints in Python”Submitted The State of Python Packaging as a story · 133 points
HN discussionRecommend reading related blog post https://bernat.tech/posts/securing-python-supply-chain
Comment linking /posts/securing-python-supply-chain
on “Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised”Submitted The state of type hints in Python as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted PyCon US 2026 Packaging Summit Recap as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted PyCon US 2026 Typing Summit Recap as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The state of Python Packaging [aka pip 19 and PEP-517/518] as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The state of Python Packaging: package types as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted PyCon US 2026 Typing Summit Recap as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted PyTexas 2026 Recap as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Defense in Depth: A Practical Guide to Python Supply Chain Security as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Defense in Depth: A Practical Guide to Python Supply Chain Security as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Defense in Depth: A Practical Guide to Python Supply Chain Security as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Version numbers: how to use them in your libraries (Python)? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The state of type hints in Python as a story · 1 points
HN discussion