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hashman.ca is a personal blog at hashman.ca about security and health. Since 2022, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Repack Zoom .debs to remove the `ibus` dependency”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-09, and you can follow it by feed.

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2022–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2024

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Why HN links it

HN readers link this post about digging into the ibus input-method library and trying to make ibus-daemon faster, tied to a related Zoom .deb dependency article.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Repack Zoom .debs to remove the `ibus` dependency
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-09-17

What Hacker News says?

  1. Nice & timely! There was an article a week ago on hacking the zoom .Deb to remove the ibis dependency, which they say was causing a lot of slowdown just for existing. https://hashman.ca/zoom/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41566785 Nice to see someone dive in & try improving the library! Many thanks!! I am curious what the big picture looks like here. There's clearly a lot of work to make ibus-daemon faster, w…

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  2. Submitted Repack Zoom .debs to remove the `ibus` dependency as a story · 10 points

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  3. Submitted A beginner's guide to improving your digital security as a story · 2 points

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  5. Submitted I Am Sick as a story · 1 points

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  6. Submitted Software Freedom Conservancy: Governance and Federation Are the Future (2018) as a story · 1 points

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