https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2305.04641/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43163227urn:hackerpapers:mention:2305.04641:43163227Mon, 24 Feb 2025 18:45:25 GMT<p>We are a bunch of academics who have worked on debloating tools for containers and we just released our code with an MIT license to Github: https://github.com/negativa-ai/BLAFS A full description of the work is here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.04641 We have tested the tool on many containers. For the top 20 pulled docker containers, the savings are up to 95% with all the containers working. We have done the same tests with slim-toolkit and it was only able to debloat 8 out of 20. We are looking at making this more automated for users. Now, we only support docker, but we are working on podman…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2305.04641/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.SEhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43120088urn:hackerpapers:submission:2305.04641:43120088Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:56:19 GMT<p>Show HN: We have just released our first Debloating tool for Containers</p><p>We have been working on tools for safe debloating of software for a few years now at the university. BLAFS is one of our first tools to release for file debloating, a bloat-aware filesystem for container debloating. It detects the files used by the container, and the debloats the container removing the unused files. The debloated containers are fully functional and can run the same workload as the original containers, but with a much smaller size and faster deployment. Check the paper for more details: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.04641</p><p>5 points; 4 discussion replies on HN. <a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2305.04641/">Paper and source history</a>. A submission is not an endorsement.</p>cs.SE