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lakeFS is the company blog at lakefs.io, writing about data and programming. Since 2020, 28 different Hacker News readers have linked it 53 times, most often “The State of Data Engineering 2023”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters point to lakeFS, a git-like version control tool for data lakes, and one of its blog posts on moving ACLs out of core lakeFS. It is suggested as an option in threads on data pipelines and S3-compatible object storage.
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.
Bridging the data Infrastructure gap for AI. Ensure AI data governance, make AI training and agent runs reproducible, reduce access friction.
Most-linked posts?
- /5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2022-06-23
- The State of Data Engineering 20233 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-05-24
- The Guide to Data Versioning2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-11-23
- Comparing Hudi, Iceberg and Delta Lake2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-04-12
- Data engineering trends and tools map 20222 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-06-21
- LakeFS Acquires DVC2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-11-18
- Hive Metastore – Why It’s Still Here and What Can Replace It?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-08-09
- State of Data Engineering Report 20252 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-06-11
What Hacker News says?
Also in the same vein, check out https://lakefs.io/
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on “Dolt is Git for Data”Submitted Diary of a Data Engineer as a story · 34 points
HN discussionThere's a lot of factions doing git backed or git like systems out there already. LogRocket has a round-up of 9 different CMS, such as the excellent excellent Tina CMS. The #GitOps is incredibly well loved & respected for all manner of systems & infrastructure, with projects like ArgoCD being immensely popular. https://blog.logrocket.com/9-best-git-based-cms-platforms/ https://tina.io/ https://argoproj.github.io/cd/…
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on “First-Class Models: The Missing Productivity Revolution”Submitted Data engineering trends and tools map 2022 as a story · 24 points
HN discussionThe situation is not as dire as it first appeared. While the messaging wasn't handled very well, where everything is settling out is good, with pluggable auth and an open source reference implementation: https://lakefs.io/blog/why-moving-acls-out-of-core-lakefs/
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on “Access Control Lists Being Removed from LakeFS Open Source”Submitted How We Built Our lakeFS Iceberg Catalog as a story · 16 points
HN discussionI would add https://github.com/gaul/s3proxy and https://lakefs.io/ to your list.
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on “Ask HN: S3/Cloudflare R2/GCS/Wasabi/B2/Bunny or Minio/Seaweed/Garage/Ceph?”Submitted The Guide to Data Versioning as a story · 15 points
HN discussionapologies for not getting into more detail--wanted to start by covering things at a high level. There are a few key concepts that might be helpful. * data state - this is contents of both your data and metadata at a given point in time. if your data doesn't fit into a single database, this can be difficult to manage. We use this technology to help us: https://lakefs.io/ * logical state - this is everything you use i…
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on “Dev / Stage / Prod is the wrong pattern for data pipelines”Submitted How to Pick the Right Postgres for Your Application – A Build vs. Buy Analysis as a story · 12 points
HN discussionsaltcured, find these comments super insightful! > Yeah, there's a lot of hidden magic/assumptions in having a "writable snapshot of a specific version" of production data. That's absolutely a huge assumption. This technology has been a game changer for us: https://lakefs.io/ > It becomes a headache when there is too much contention to use these sandboxes, or too much manual effort to reset them to a desired testing…
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on “Dev / Stage / Prod is the wrong pattern for data pipelines”Submitted Comparing Hudi, Iceberg and Delta Lake as a story · 10 points
HN discussionWhat's a good simple open source S3-style object store to use? Does one even exist? Do we need to start a project to (re-)write one in Rust? - MinIO: more trouble than it's worth, as demonstrated here - Radosgw of Ceph: not really suitable for a single server install - Garage ( https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/ ): Their writing about the distributed design didn't convince me in 2022. - https://lakefs.io/ Haven't studi…
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on “WEKA Responds to Unfounded Allegations Made by MinIO Regarding OSS Licensing”Submitted LakeFS – atomic, versioned data lake on object storage as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted SSTables on S3: Scaling the Git Model to Petabyte-Scale Data Lakes as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to manage your data the way you manage code as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted LakeFS adds REST catalog support for data version control on structured data as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The State of Data Engineering in 2021 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted 3 Data Lake Anti-Patterns to Avoid as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The State of Data Engineering 2023 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The State of Data Engineering as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building Rich CLI Applications with Go’s Built-In Templating as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Git-Like Operations over MinIO with LakeFS as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Lakeview – open-source visibility tool for AWS S3 based Data Lakes as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Give your AI agent a versioned filesystem as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted LakeFS Acquires DVC as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted lakeFS Acquires DVC, Uniting Data Version Control Pioneers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using data version control to build better AI factories as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Data version control over multiple heterogenous storage back ends as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Data Version Control: What It Is and How It Works as a story · 2 points
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