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Hatchet Blog
Company blog · hatchet.run/blog · on HN as abelangerprogrammingai
Hatchet Blog is the company blog at hatchet.run, writing about programming and ai. Since 2023, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 36 times, most often “Hatchet”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-17, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link the Hatchet blog for posts on durable execution and distributed workflow systems. One commenter calls the durable execution post excellent and says a durable workflow engine is needed to reach a reliable distributed system.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Hatchet is a single platform for orchestrating AI agents, scheduling background tasks, and running mission-critical workflows.
Most-linked posts?
- Hatchet4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2023-03-27
- How to think about durable execution2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-12-12
- Reflecting on two years as an open-source startup2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-01-13
- Coding agents supercharge Murphy's Law2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-08-07
- Designing SDKs that developers love2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-08
What Hacker News says?
Yep, we're backed by YC in the W24 batch - this is evident on our landing page [1]. We're both second time CTOs and we've been on both sides of this, as consumers of and creators of OSS. I was previously a co-founder and CTO of Porter [2], which had an open-core model. There are two risks that most companies think about in the open core model: 1. Big companies using your platform without contributing back in some wa…
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on “Show HN: Hatchet – Open-source distributed task queue”Submitted How to think about durable execution as a story · 96 points
HN discussionHatchet ( https://hatchet.run ) | New York City (IN-PERSON) | Full-time We're hiring a founding engineer to help us with development on our open-source, distributed task queue: https://github.com/hatchet-dev/hatchet . We recently launched on HN, you can check out our launch here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39643136 . We're two second-time YC founders in this for the long haul and we are just wrapping up th…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2024)”Submitted The pitfalls of partitioning Postgres yourself as a story · 93 points
HN discussionHatchet ( https://hatchet.run ) | New York City (IN-PERSON) | Full-time We're hiring a founding engineer to help us with development on our open-source, distributed task queue: https://github.com/hatchet-dev/hatchet . We recently launched on HN, you can check out our launches here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39643136 and here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40810986 . We're two second-time YC founders…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2024)”Submitted Hatchet as a story · 5 points
HN discussionHatchet ( https://hatchet.run ) | New York City (IN-PERSON | REMOTE) | Full-time We're hiring for a number of engineering positions to help us with development on our open-source, distributed task queue: https://github.com/hatchet-dev/hatchet . We launched on HN several times last year, you can check out our launches here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39643136 and here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=408…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)”Submitted Reflecting on two years as an open-source startup as a story · 4 points
HN discussionHatchet ( https://hatchet.run ) | New York City (IN-PERSON) | Full-time We're hiring a founding engineer to help us with development on our open-source, distributed task queue: https://github.com/hatchet-dev/hatchet . We recently launched on HN, you can check out our launch here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39643136 . We're two second-time YC founders in this for the long haul and just wrapped up the YC W24…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2024)”Submitted Coding agents supercharge Murphy's Law as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHatchet ( https://hatchet.run ) | New York City | Full-time We're hiring a founding engineer to help us with development on our open-source, distributed task queue: https://github.com/hatchet-dev/hatchet . We recently launched on HN, you can check out our launch here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39643136 . We're two second-time YC founders in this for the long haul and we are just wrapping up the YC W24 bat…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2024)”Submitted The First Idempotency Key as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThanks for this feedback, we'll add some details and an architecture diagram. The simplest way to run hatchet is with `hatchet-lite`[0] which bundles all internal services. For most deployments we recommend running these components separately hence the multiple services in the helm chart [1]. RabbitMQ is now an optional dependency which is used for internal-service messages for higher throughput deployments [2]. You…
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on “Show HN: Hatchet v1 – A task orchestration platform built on Postgres”Submitted Building a TUI is easy now as a story · 3 points
HN discussionOP here - this type of "checkpoint-based state machine" is exactly what platforms which offer durable execution primitives like Hatchet ( https://hatchet.run/ ) and Temporal ( https://temporal.io/ ) are offering. Disclaimer: am a founder of Hatchet. These platforms store an event history of the functions which have run as part of the same workflow, and automatically replay those when your function gets interrupted.…
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on “Go is a good fit for agents”Submitted Reflecting on two years as an open-source startup as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis is a great question, thanks for asking. We are testing workflows internally that use orchestration software like Hatchet/Temporal to allow the framework to robustly handle 100s of GBs of upload data from parsing to chunking to embedding to storing [1][2]. The goal is to build durable execution at each step, because even steps like PDF extraction can be expensive / time consuming. We are targeting an prelim. rel…
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on “Show HN: R2R – Open-source framework for production-grade RAG”Submitted The startup's Postgres survival guide as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHatchet | Full-Stack Engineer | NYC or SF or REMOTE (US and EU) | https://hatchet.run Hey HN! I'm Alexander, one of the founders of Hatchet. Hatchet is an open-source platform for running background jobs at scale. We're hiring engineers who are excited to build the next class of engineering primitives, starting with queues, background tasks and durable execution. We started in early 2024 after launching our distribu…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)”Submitted Designing SDKs that developers love as a story · 2 points
HN discussionDrawing the boundary at high throughput, huge fan-out and ultra-low-latency is correct - I'd also add that MQs are often used for pub/sub and signaling. MQs are heavily optimized for reducing E2E latency between publishers and consumers in a way that DE engines are not, since DE engines usually rely on an ACID compliant database. Under load I've seen an order of magnitude difference in enqueue times (low single-digi…
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on “Message Queues: A Simple Guide with Analogies”Submitted Banana Mode as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> I do wish the guide was expanded a bit with lots of specific examples and details... a lot of it is hand-wavy blurbs. I appreciate the feedback; I'm usually someone who tends to go into way too much detail, so this was difficult to write - I tried to focus on the "mental model" of understanding Postgres rather than very nuanced specifics. I tried to link out to my favorite articles on a number of subjects, and the…
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on “The startup's Postgres survival guide”Submitted Your Team Needs an Andon Cord as a story · 1 points
HN discussionOpen-source TFC alternatives: - https://hatchet.run/ - https://docs.otf.ninja/latest/ - https://www.digger.dev/ - https://terrakube.org/ - https://www.runatlantis.io/
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on “Terraform Cloud Pricing Changes Sticker Shock”Submitted Coding agents supercharge Murphy's Law as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHatchet | Product Engineer | NYC or SF or REMOTE (US and EU) | https://hatchet.run Hey HN! I'm Alexander, one of the founders of Hatchet. Hatchet is an open-source platform for running background jobs at scale. We're hiring product engineers who are excited to build the next class of engineering primitives, starting with queues, background tasks and durable execution. We started in early 2024 after launching our dis…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)”Submitted Supertoast Tables as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI found the accompanying blog post excellent. In my experience, systems go from a monolith to a distributed monolith to a reliable distributed system. A durable workflow engine is one of the pieces that is required to get to target state. https://hatchet.run/blog/durable-execution
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on “Durable Execution the Hard Way”Submitted Reflecting on two years as an open-source startup as a story · 1 points
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