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Cloudsmith
Company blog · cloudsmith.com/blogprogrammingsecurity
Cloudsmith is the company blog at cloudsmith.com, writing about programming and security. Since 2021, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters mention Cloudsmith as a package hosting service for distributing software, including as an alternative to distro repositories. No comment discusses the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The cloud-native alternative to JFrog Artifactory. Control, secure, and distribute every package and container at enterprise scale, fully managed.
What Hacker News says?
Linus Torvalds about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pzl1B7nB9Kc Distros (Debian in particular comes to mind) have some really annoying packaging rules, and as a maintainer of a Go program, it's a huge pain, so we decided to just set up a repo with https://cloudsmith.com/ instead of trying to deal with that. They require every dependency (indirect or not) to be packaged separately. We don't have the time for t…
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on “Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for Git commands”Submitted Kubernetes 1.33 Release Update as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThere are other offerings for a package distribution use case - https://cloudsmith.com being the most clear alternative. Support for 23+ package types, comprehensive API and CLI, package signing support, global PoP's etc. Full Disclosure - I work at Cloudsmith, and I genuinely think it's awesome. If anyone has any questions feel free to reach out to me - dan at cloudsmith dot com
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on “Service end for Bintray, JCenter, GoCenter, and ChartCenter”Submitted Decoding the Difference: Artifacts vs. Packages in Software Development as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted CVE-2025-3248: Serious vulnerability found in popular Python AI package as a story · 1 points
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