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Eshel Yaron
Personal blog · eshelyaron.com/postsprogramming
Eshel Yaron's personal blog at eshelyaron.com covers programming. Since 2023, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Emacs arbitrary code execution on file open, again”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-06, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Eshel Yaron's posts for their Emacs and Prolog content, including a post about fixing a bug that had gone unfixed for twenty-six years and Sweep, an Emacs mode for Prolog.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Personal home page of Eshel Yaron
Most-linked posts?
- Emacs arbitrary code execution on file open, again2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-08-07
What Hacker News says?
Here's one older than the FF one: https://eshelyaron.com/posts/2024-02-10-fixing-a-twenty-six-...
Comment linking /posts/2024-02-10-fixing-a-twenty-six-years-old-emacs-bug.html
on “Firefox bug gets fixed after 25 years”Submitted Emacs arbitrary code execution and how to avoid it as a story · 139 points
HN discussionRight, it's an emacs clone. There's also Sweep, an emacs mode for Prolog. https://eshelyaron.com/sweep.html When I grow up, I'll give it a try :)
Comment linking /sweep.html
on “Can logic programming be liberated from predicates and backtracking? [pdf]”Submitted Kubed (Emacs-based Kubernetes interface) user manual, now with pretty images as a story · 87 points
HN discussion>> Right now this seems to have all the downsides of programming exclusively with "magic strings", and I haven't been able to find any cure for it or even seen this problem discussed elsewhere. The cure is to not try to program with "magic strings". You don't need to, and if you really want to, then you should try to understand what exactly it is that you're doing, and do it right. Specifically, what you call "magic…
Comment linking /sweep.html
on “Can logic programming be liberated from predicates and backtracking? [pdf]”Submitted Bad News, Emacs as a story · 20 points
HN discussionSubmitted Emacs arbitrary code execution on file open, again as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Emacs Arbitrary Code Execution Returns as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Towards Trust in Emacs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Composing Kubectl Commands in Style with Kubed as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Completion Preview in Emacs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Orientation in JSON documents with Emacs and Tree-sitter as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making Shell Scripts Executable Just-in-Time as a story · 1 points
HN discussion