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Nice, thanks for putting this together.

I do find it a bit funny that the main image is of a building with fake shutters, which is somewhat against the ethos of A Pattern Language.

> Get even a single NO and you're done.

Why do you think that's true? SOC2 isn't pass/fail, you receive a report on your business. You can have gaping security holes and be SOC2 "certified." It's just that your SOC2 audit will reflect that.

Even though I agree SOC2 in practice is of dubious security value, I do think you can lose out on sales if you don't have it. I recently had to choose among a bevy of headless CRM options for a client, and they were adamant that whatever platform we used _had_ to be SOC2 compliant. This narrowed the field significantly and ultimately we went with Strapi solely because of this requirement. I see this come up all the time.

Tools like Vanta (and I'm sure others, Drata maybe, I haven't used them) make SOC2 compliance pretty "easy" in the sense that it's often a mechanical process that doesn't require too much thought. At least for me, it usually involves being in a Slack channel with an auditor, and they're advising you on all the things to do (they want you to "win"/pass, although there is no real pass fail), and then you just need to check the boxes in Vanta.

Re:Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained on Monday April 27, 2026 @07:50AM (#47920372)
Wow, this is pretty surprising, I was under the impression that this is the leading PG backup/recovery tool.

Anybody know how WAL-G and Barman compare?

https://github.com/wal-g/wal-g

https://github.com/EnterpriseDB/barman

Re:Has electricity decoupled from gas prices in Germany? on Thursday April 09, 2026 @01:18PM (#47706409)
Got it, thank you!
Re:Has electricity decoupled from gas prices in Germany? on Thursday April 09, 2026 @11:47AM (#47705235)
When you say "power router," what product are you referencing specifically? I'm trying to search online to find a similar product but I don't think I'm finding the right thing.
Re:RE#: how we built the fastest regex engine in F# on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @09:48AM (#47248233)
Various investigations have found it to be one of the most token efficient statically typed programming languages

https://martinalderson.com/posts/which-programming-languages...

Don't know about anyone else, but the first thing I do with these types of libraries to check out the Accordion component and see if it slides out with a nice animation. This has become my litmus test for how well designed a component library is.
Re:I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monero on Thursday December 18, 2025 @08:58AM (#46312725)
There's a real dearth of blog posts explaining how to use quadlets for the local dev experience, and actually most guides I've seen seem to recommend using podman/Docker compose. Do you use quadlets for local dev and testing?
Does this do any level of server hardening for you when you point it at a server?
Re:.NET 10 on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @01:03PM (#45903455)
There's an open source one by Samsung that is excellent, never had any issues with it: https://github.com/Samsung/netcoredbg
Re:I Love OCaml on Friday November 07, 2025 @12:46PM (#45848914)
There are libraries that simulate a lot of these things (e.g. https://github.com/G-Research/TypeEquality for GADTs). You're absolutely right that it's not as first class as in OCaml, but the tools are there if you want them.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025) on Monday November 03, 2025 @01:25PM (#45802424)
Nelknet (https://nelknet.com/) | Senior contractors, frontend and backend | Remote (US & international, but some overlap with clients needed) We're a small, experienced team building software solutions for US-based clients. Recent projects include: - Building ChatGPT-style interfaces for intelligence report analysis

- Developing generative AI features for professional networking platforms

- Platform engineering for logistics/trucking management systems

- Architecture design for real estate search engines

- Implementing RAG pipelines for edtech products

We're expanding our network of senior contractors (both frontend and backend). This is a 1099 contracting relationship - you'll have the flexibility to manage your own schedule and potentially work with other clients while maintaining a professional commitment to our projects.

Requirements: - Strong English communication skills - Senior-level development expertise - Experience with modern tech stacks - Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively - Some level of US business hours availability

If you're interested, please fill out our intake form: https://baserow.io/form/mXa6NqUOKw9CcDPAU37oPh1uOPFHHESph6k0...

If we have a project that is well-suited to your skillset, I will definitely be reaching out!

Looking forward to connecting!

Re:Litestream v0.5.0 Is Here on Friday October 03, 2025 @01:15PM (#45465241)
I'm curious about the same, but also am wondering if there can be an automatic election of a new primary through the use of conditional writes (or as Fly.io say, CASAAS: Compare-and-Swap as a Service).
Re:I Built an Event-Sourcing Database Engine: Meet Genesis DB on Friday September 19, 2025 @08:29AM (#45300902)
There's also https://github.com/message-db/message-db

Admittedly, these options seem to not be quite as user friendly as OP's solution.

Re:E-Paper Display Refresh Rate Reaches New Heights on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @08:27AM (#45196661)
I would love to have an eInk tablet that I can watch videos on (color not required). I frequently watch educational YouTube videos before bed, but I’d prefer to have something that isn’t beaming light into my eyes. Does something like this exist on the market today, or do I need to wait until this product gets released?
Re:Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City on Friday August 22, 2025 @05:08PM (#44989836)
I can’t wait until this is available in more rural areas of NY. I would love to be able to take this thing to/from a bar where there’s no public transport and very low density of Uber/Lyft.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2025) on Friday August 01, 2025 @04:49PM (#44762327)
Whoops, that probably means that you've already submitted your information. There's only one unique constraint on the email field.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2025) on Friday August 01, 2025 @02:24PM (#44760504)
Nelknet (https://nelknet.com/) | Senior contractors, frontend and backend | Remote (US & international, but some overlap with clients needed) We're a small, experienced team building software solutions for US-based clients. Recent projects include:

- Building ChatGPT-style interfaces for intelligence report analysis

- Developing generative AI features for professional networking platforms

- Platform engineering for logistics/trucking management systems

- Architecture design for real estate search engines

- Implementing RAG pipelines for edtech products

We're expanding our network of senior contractors (both frontend and backend). This is a 1099 contracting relationship - you'll have the flexibility to manage your own schedule and potentially work with other clients while maintaining a professional commitment to our projects.

Requirements: - Strong English communication skills - Senior-level development expertise - Experience with modern tech stacks - Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively - Some level of US business hours availability

If you're interested, please fill out our intake form: https://baserow.io/form/mXa6NqUOKw9CcDPAU37oPh1uOPFHHESph6k0...

If we have a project that is well-suited to your skillset, I will definitely be reaching out!

Looking forward to connecting!

Akka.NET and AvaloniaUI are two big ones.
Re:Embedding user-defined indexes in Apache Parquet on Monday July 14, 2025 @02:59PM (#44563986)
Cool, but this is very specific to DataFusion, no? Is there any chance this would be standardized so other Parquet readers could leverage the same technique?
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2025) on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @01:19PM (#44436094)
Nelknet (https://nelknet.com/) | Senior contractors, frontend and backend | Remote (US & international, but some overlap with clients needed) We're a small, experienced team building software solutions for US-based clients. Recent projects include:

- Building ChatGPT-style interfaces for intelligence report analysis

- Developing generative AI features for professional networking platforms

- Platform engineering for logistics/trucking management systems

- Architecture design for real estate search engines

- Implementing RAG pipelines for edtech products

We're expanding our network of senior contractors (both frontend and backend). This is a 1099 contracting relationship - you'll have the flexibility to manage your own schedule and potentially work with other clients while maintaining a professional commitment to our projects.

Requirements: - Strong English communication skills - Senior-level development expertise - Experience with modern tech stacks - Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively - Some level of US business hours availability

If you're interested, please fill out our intake form: https://baserow.io/form/mXa6NqUOKw9CcDPAU37oPh1uOPFHHESph6k0...

If we have a project that is well-suited to your skillset, I will definitely be reaching out!

Looking forward to connecting!

There's the original/current implementation: https://github.com/clojure/clojure-clr

And the newer reimplementation: https://github.com/dmiller/clojure-clr-next

Re:Ask HN: What projects do you donate to? on Tuesday May 27, 2025 @10:01AM (#44107120)
I donate to the Ionide project which is a suite of dev tools for F#. Been using them consistently for years. They've only continued to improve over the years!

https://opencollective.com/ionide

Re:Litestream: Revamped on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @01:41PM (#44054038)
Does anybody have a list of which S3-compatible object storage providers support Compare-And-Swap?
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2025) on Thursday May 01, 2025 @12:52PM (#43860254)
Nelknet (https://nelknet.com/) | Senior contractors, frontend and backend | Remote (US & international, but some overlap with clients needed)

We're a small, experienced team building software solutions for US-based clients. Recent projects include:

- Building ChatGPT-style interfaces for intelligence report analysis

- Developing generative AI features for professional networking platforms

- Platform engineering for logistics/trucking management systems

- Architecture design for real estate search engines

- Implementing RAG pipelines for edtech products

We're expanding our network of senior contractors (both frontend and backend). This is a 1099 contracting relationship - you'll have the flexibility to manage your own schedule and potentially work with other clients while maintaining a professional commitment to our projects.

Requirements: - Strong English communication skills - Senior-level development expertise - Experience with modern tech stacks - Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively - Some level of US business hours availability

If you're interested, please fill out our intake form: https://baserow.io/form/mXa6NqUOKw9CcDPAU37oPh1uOPFHHESph6k0...

If we have a project that is well-suited to your skillset, I will definitely be reaching out!

Looking forward to connecting!

Seems a bit like a spiritual successor to the Jeep Cherokee XJ, which also has a very strong DIY community around it.

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