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Basis Theory
Company blog · basistheory.com/blogsecurityprogramming
Basis Theory is the company blog at basistheory.com, writing about security and programming. Since 2022, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Encrypt Smarter, Not Harder: An Open Source KMS SDK by Basis Theory”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts on compliance and data handling, such as a rant on converging compliance regimes. The one comment cites the company's product and gives data-access advice, without judging the writing.
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.
More than a token vault—Basis Theory routes, tokenizes, and optimizes your payments to drive conversion, resilience, and retention.
Most-linked posts?
- Encrypt Smarter, Not Harder: An Open Source KMS SDK by Basis Theory2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-10-05
- Show HN: Secure, use, and manage sensitive data without touching it2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-04-21
What Hacker News says?
Couple of random notes: * Some environments might be able to use a structure where a PII table is fully tokenized while less-sensitive data is more broadly available to developers. * Postgres can be configured with row/column-level security. * I believe https://basistheory.com/ offers the per-user/entity key setup. This is an additional service/cost but the UI is slick and easy to provision/remove access to specific…
Comment linking /
on “A brief rant on converging compliance regimes”Submitted What Is Tokenization? as a story · 71 points
HN discussionSubmitted Data Security Is a Developer Service Problem as a story · 49 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Secure, use, and manage sensitive data without touching it as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted Encrypt Smarter, Not Harder: An Open Source KMS SDK by Basis Theory as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Transforming a search query into an EF expression with Lucene as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What is PCI compliance? A helpful guide as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Encrypt Smarter, Not Harder: The Basis Theory Open Source KMS SDK as a story · 1 points
HN discussion