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Harness.io
Company blog · harness.io/blogprogrammingsystems
Harness.io is the company blog at harness.io, writing about programming and systems. Since 2013, 24 different Hacker News readers have linked it 34 times, most often “Harness Acquires Codecov from Sentry”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Company blog from Harness covering CI/CD, software delivery and developer tooling, plus a post on JavaScript null handling. HN comments mostly discuss Harness's products, licensing and open-source releases, not the posts' writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Harness is a unified AI software delivery platform to manage the SDLC using purpose-built AI agents.
Most-linked posts?
- Harness Acquires Codecov from Sentry3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-06-02
- Harness launches the fasted CI leveraging Drone2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-11-16
- Harness Acquires CI Pioneer Drone.io and Commits to Open Source2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-08-05
- Harness Joins OpenTF Initiative2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-30
- Gitness – open-source Git Platform2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-09-21
What Hacker News says?
> Why aren't more licenses like this? I wonder this too. I started using drone.io for CI early this year and part of the reason was because of their no BS license where anyone making under $1 million could just use it. Unfortunately they got bought by Harness who's already slicing it into tiers [1] so it'll turn into the same feature roulette crap (like GitLab) that I was trying to avoid. If I had input on the busin…
Comment linking /pricing/
on “AWS pre-announces public container image registry”Submitted Harness Joins OpenTF Initiative as a story · 12 points
HN discussionYes, that's mostly covered by the companies sponsoring OpenTofu's development: Spacelift[0] (I work here), env0[1], Scalr[2], Harness[3], Gruntworks[4]. [0]: https://spacelift.io [1]: https://www.env0.com [2]: https://www.scalr.com [3]: https://www.harness.io [4]: https://gruntwork.io
Comment linking /
on “OpenTofu 1.7.0 is out with State Encryption, Dynamic Provider-defined Functions”Submitted Harness Open Source: All-in-One Software Delivery Platform for Developers as a story · 11 points
HN discussionHello all, I lead the product and engineering for Harness Open Source ( https://www.harness.io/open-source ). With Harness Open Source, developers can configure their development environments, host code repositories, as well as build, test, deploy, and manage artifacts - all from a small DigitalOcean droplet or your own laptop and with a single docker command. Harness Open Source is an alternative to GitHub, GitLab,…
Comment linking /open-source
on “Harness Open Source: All-in-One Software Delivery Platform for Developers”Submitted Harness launches the fasted CI leveraging Drone as a story · 9 points
HN discussionThere's also this article for further discussion: https://www.harness.io/blog/bias-against-null-javascript
Comment linking /blog/bias-against-null-javascript
on “Always use undefined, and never null”Submitted Harness Launches Source Available Continuous Delivery as a story · 7 points
HN discussionI agree this is really sad and I also hope everyone affected finds a new opportunity quickly. CI is a commodity so it's hard for CircleCI to sustain as a stand-alone business. I found DroneCI to be simplest and fastest CI tool I have used. In fact just recently Harness published some bold claims of being 4x faster than leading CI vendors( https://harness.io/blog/fastest-ci-tool ). I have been using it myself and it'…
Comment linking /blog/fastest-ci-tool
on “CircleCI Layoffs”Submitted Harness Acquires Codecov from Sentry as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI get that you feel that they're the same, and that makes sense since you founded both projects. But what is publicly visible communicates something very different. For example, the press release entitled "Harness Releases Gitness" is clearly describing the release of a new Harness product, not a rebranding of Drone [0]. And your README doesn't say anything like "Gitness is Drone 3.0", it says it's "powered by Drone…
Comment linking /blog/harness-releases-gitness-open-source-git-platform
on “Harness launches Gitness, an open-source GitHub competitor”Submitted VegaLoad: Open-Source Load Testing for Agentic Developers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionthat was helpful, thank you "upgrade to harness software delivery platform" < https://youtu.be/TDEIiVuM6IY?t=96 > ... to do what? https://docs.gitness.com/ makes no such mention of upgrading or why anyone would want to and of course it's got all the AIz https://youtu.be/TDEIiVuM6IY?t=118 which I'd presume is this https://www.harness.io/products/aida and yet https://www.harness.io/legal/aida-terms says "AIDA may util…
Comment linking /legal/aida-terms
on “Harness launches Gitness, an open-source GitHub competitor”Submitted Harness Acquires Codecov from Sentry as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Women in Tech: Journeys, Grit, and the Future We're Building as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted So what is Harness Open Source and why should you care? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Harness Joins OpenTF Initiative as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A new approach to caching in continuous integration (CI) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Harness.io - Create Automated Tests for Your Web App in 60 Seconds as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Harness Acquires Codecov from Sentry as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How are you handling Git branching for database migrations? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Welcome Split to the Harness Team as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Harness Partners with Semgrep as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Harness Acquires Armory for $7 million in cash as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ephemeral CI environments using ttl.sh and Gitness as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gitness – open-source Git Platform as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Harness CI offers macOS M1 machines for faster builds as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Data Is In: Harness CI Is the Fastest on the Planet as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Harness Acquires CI Pioneer Drone.io and Commits to Open Source as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Harness Acquires CI Pioneer Drone.io and Commits to Open Source as a story · 1 points
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