Yes, you can do "apt-get install --dry-run ./nyancat_1.5.2-0.2_i386.deb" these days.

> Their signed package formats (there are two) add extra sections to the `ar` archive for the signature

APT does not verify package-level signatures (and nobody uses them anyway), so this is irrelevant.

Here you go:

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1034849/cdf566666c71e5de/

From the HN Guidelines <https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html>:

> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that".

That guideline is decent I guess.

I am disappointed that they edited another guideline for the worse:

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

It used to just say, don't complain about voting.

If the number of votes are so taboo, why do they even show us the number or user karma (and have a top list)?

We can't even talk about the guidelines?

If bat is not available, vet uses less, which is not a faithful pager:

https://github.com/jwilk/unfaithful-less

It seems at least some versions of bat have the same problem, but I didn't look into the details.

str.format() can be cursed too, e.g.:

  >>> '{:{}{}}'.format('m', 'o<2', 3)
  'moooooooooooooooooooooo'

> canid predators like hyenas

Hyenas are not canids; they are feliformia ("cat-like" carnivorans).

From Wikipedia:

> Although phylogenetically closer to felines and viverrids, hyenas are behaviourally and morphologically similar to canids in several elements due to convergent evolution: both hyenas and canines are non-arboreal

So for the purpose of this article, which states that because cats can climb trees are more of a danger to humans than dog/wolves, we can consider them on the dog side.

> because cats can climb trees are more of a danger to humans than dog/wolves

That's on an individual level only though? Dogs/wolves are pack animals. I once stood in an empty eastern European city street and a pack of smallish/midsize street dogs came running straight towards me. For the first time I truly understood our ancestors fears[#]. If it had been just one or two dogs, especially with their at most middlish size I would not have cared. A whole pack is a very different ball game.

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[#] They just ran past me, fortunately.

Original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44480845 (1 comment at the moment)

(2008)

Discussed in 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16002444 (5 comments)

> Once the bug report becomes publicly visible, it will be linked here.

Here it is: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2025-06/msg00149...