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zi

✨ A high-performance plugin manager and toolkit for Zsh.

3Distinct people
3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
916GitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

What to know before exploring

What it is

✨ A high-performance plugin manager and toolkit for Zsh.

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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Also in these discussions

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 4:00:59 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by hour3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2024-04-08 21:08:58 UTC to 2024-04-09 00:15:47 UTC.

012024-04-08 21:00:00 UTC to 2024-04-08 22:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsApr 8, 21:002024-04-08 22:00:00 UTC to 2024-04-08 23:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsApr 8, 22:002024-04-08 23:00:00 UTC to 2024-04-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-04-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-04-09 01:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsApr 9, 00:00

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Apr 8, 21:002024-04-08 21:00:00 UTC2024-04-08 22:00:00 UTC101
Apr 8, 22:002024-04-08 22:00:00 UTC2024-04-08 23:00:00 UTC101
Apr 8, 23:002024-04-08 23:00:00 UTC2024-04-09 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 9, 00:002024-04-09 00:00:00 UTC2024-04-09 01:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

1 sources
A couple weeks ago anyone calling Jia Tan of xz untrustworthy (without having discovered the backdoor) would have been laughed at, but apparently we're in a world where long-time maintainers of open-source projects can be malicious. And here there are even actual ongoing red flags, and multiple of them. There's even an open issue on curl-ing[0], with no action for 6 months (and given that the "verified" version seemingly would fail to load anything at all if the script really updated, it's pushing users to not use it). Even if it's discernible from zsh, similarities can nevertheless provide a feeling of credibility/officiality. It can of course all be unfortunate accidents (and still has a good chance to be such), but that means nothing - a malicious person would of course try to make all their actions seem as such. [0]: https://github.co
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m/z-shell/zi/issues/287, though it doesn't notice the double-curl in "verified" being a massive security issue which makes it worse than useless
In Looking into an apparently scammy looking zsh plugin manager called “zi”

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