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CircleCI
Company blog · circleci.com/blog · on HN as pbiggarprogrammingsystems
CircleCI is the company blog at circleci.com, writing about programming and systems. Since 2012, 193 different Hacker News readers have linked it 463 times, most often “CircleCi: It's the Future”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 2 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link CircleCI's blog mainly for its 'It's the Future' Docker parody, which commenters misread as sincere, and for posts on kindness and platform tooling.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- CircleCi: It's the Future27 people · 31 mentions · first linked 2016-05-25
- Circle - Continuous Integration made easy14 people · 14 mentions · first linked 2012-08-31
- Docker really is the future6 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2016-08-17
- Why we re-designed our engineering career paths at CircleCI6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2018-12-12
- Rotate any secrets stored in CircleCI6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2023-01-05
- CircleCI incident report for January 4, 2023 security incident5 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2023-01-13
- /5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2012-01-01
- /4 people · 82 mentions · first linked 2012-05-31
- Why CircleCI Stopped Using Core.Typed (2015)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-04-19
- Continuous Delivery: A Christmas Tale4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-12-20
What Hacker News says?
This reminds me of one of my favorite blog posts: https://circleci.com/blog/kindness-is-underrated/ > The choice to be kind can be hard, especially when you’re frustrated or when, thanks to your gifts, you know that someone has made the sort of error you could easily have avoided. It’s easier to be direct; to not concern yourself too heavily with the emotions of others; to want to be unequivocal in your rejection. B…
Comment linking /blog/kindness-is-underrated/
on “Be Kind”Submitted “It's The Future” as a story · 1323 points
HN discussionYou can go copy/paste something like https://circleci.com/blog/deploying-a-serverless-application... and get easy lambda deployments in about 10 minutes.
Comment linking /blog/deploying-a-serverless-application/
on “The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company (2018)”Submitted Kindness is Underrated (2014) as a story · 536 points
HN discussionI can’t speak for actions but you seem extremely biased for some reason. It would take you less time than it took to write this post than to learn circleci. Much less than 20-30 mins. https://circleci.com/docs/2.0/hello-world/
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on “NPM Is Joining GitHub”Submitted Micro-promotions and mentorship: impact of small actions in engineering culture as a story · 339 points
HN discussionI highly recommend people consider self-hosting with phabricator. It's php-based, and if you have a ESXi or proxmox or digital ocean / linode instance, it's a very simple system to install & update, uses all the same LAMP stack everyone is used to, supports ssh/http based push/pull workflows, git,svn,mecurial repos, same type of authentication as github/gitlab/bitbucket, but biggest part of all, its PHP based, writt…
Comment linking /docs/1.0/phabricator/
on “GitLab sees huge spike in project imports”Submitted DevOps didn’t exist when I started as a developer as a story · 267 points
HN discussionAuthor here. To answer some questions: yes this is obviously poking fun at Docker, but I also do really believe in Docker. See the follow-up for more on that: https://circleci.com/blog/it-really-is-the-future/ In a self-indulgent moment I made a "making of" podcast about this blog post, which is kinda interesting (more about business than tech): http://www.heavybit.com/library/podcasts/to-be-continuous/ep... And if…
Comment linking /blog/it-really-is-the-future/
on ““It's The Future””Submitted What we've learned about hiring engineering managers as a story · 234 points
HN discussionMost commenters don't seem to realise that this is satirical, and that the author actually thinks Docker is 'the future': https://circleci.com/blog/it-really-is-the-future/ But there is, as the author notes, truth in the satire.
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on ““It's The Future””Submitted The little legacy code that could: a fable of software ownership as a story · 216 points
HN discussionPrepare to be worried: https://circleci.com/blog/it-really-is-the-future/
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on ““It's The Future””Submitted CircleCI Announces Support for Gitlab as a story · 175 points
HN discussionIt looks like I was not the only one to be confused: https://circleci.com/blog/it-really-is-the-future/
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on ““It's The Future””Submitted How to Get Hired at CircleCI as a story · 143 points
HN discussionParody is just a light-hearted way of criticizing. You shouldn't take it personally (unless specifically targeted). In any case, the author of the post actually agrees with you: https://circleci.com/blog/it-really-is-the-future/
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on ““It's The Future””Submitted Steps to Building an Engineering Competency Matrix as a story · 109 points
HN discussionPlease also read the followup ( https://circleci.com/blog/it-really-is-the-future/ ). I read both articles a year ago and it really helped me grasp the whole container movement.
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on ““It's The Future””Submitted Launching Today: CircleCI 2.0 Reaches General Availability as a story · 98 points
HN discussionAs others have stated you could run your own registry or use an alternative service for private repositories, to minimise or eliminate the attack vector. By replicating the images (or packages) that you need into your own account, you can minimise the possibility of a bad actor replacing a well-known image with something untrusted. An alternative is to side-cart a service like Notary ( https://docs.docker.com/notary…
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on “Docker Hub Hacked – 190k accounts, GitHub tokens revoked, builds disabled”Submitted Designing a package manager from the ground up as a story · 76 points
HN discussionIt's not obfuscated. The free plan gives you a max of 5 concurrent self-hosted runners. If you need more you can upgrade your plan: https://circleci.com/pricing/#comparison-table There simply is no free lunch, somewhere someone needs to spend effort and time on managing the orchestration layer for the runners, and there is also network traffic and storage in play that costs money. If you need a future-proof CI/CD pl…
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on “Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions”Submitted From Code Cowboy to Infrastructure Architect as a story · 56 points
HN discussionhttps://circleci.com/pricing/build-your-plan/ If self-hosted runners are free that would change our equation a bit. I'll talk to some folks here, I liked using this product at another company I worked at - but this would most likely shake out AFTER Github charges us the first time.
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on “Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions”Submitted How we interview engineers at CircleCI as a story · 52 points
HN discussionJust signed up and discovered a vulnerability. Thanks! A quick suggestion, consider adding a full sample configuration along with your config docs: https://pyup.io/docs/configuration/ It's a lot easier to see how it all sits together with a sample. CircleCI has a great example: https://circleci.com/docs/1.0/config-sample/
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on “Operation Rosehub – patching thousands of open-source projects”Submitted CircleCI announces Docker support beta as a story · 52 points
HN discussionThey just raised more funding in a Series D[1]. CircleCI isn't the only player in the space and GitHub entering the playing field doesn't change that either. There's enough space for a few competitors and having competition will probably push everyone to build a better product. [1] https://circleci.com/blog/we-raised-a-56m-series-d-what-s-ne...
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on “GitHub Actions now supports CI/CD, free for public repositories”Submitted The path to production: how and where to segregate test environments as a story · 38 points
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