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OpenSanctions.org
Company blog · opensanctions.org/articlesdatapolitics
OpenSanctions.org is the company blog at opensanctions.org, writing about data and politics. Since 2021, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “A CIA website was out of date about who runs the UK”. 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
HN readers link OpenSanctions posts on sanctions and risk-entity data and on knowledge graphs for investigative reporting. The comments mention these as sources, and one is a job listing for a customer engineer.
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 open-source database of sanctions, watchlists, and politically exposed persons — aggregating hundreds of sources and relied on by compliance teams, investigators, and journalists.
Most-linked posts?
- A CIA website was out of date about who runs the UK2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-18
- OpenSanctions – Open database of sanctions targets and persons of interest2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-03-10
What Hacker News says?
OpenSanctions | Data engineer | Full-time | Remote CET +/- 3hrs or Onsite Berlin, Germany OpenSanctions helps to keep people and companies accountable for their political and economic actions. We build a database that tracks sanctioned companies, politicians, fraudsters and criminals. Originally built to support anti-corruption journalists, OpenSanctions has also become a powerful tool used for sanctions screening,…
Comment linking /docs/company/jobs/2023-12-data-engineer/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2024)”Submitted A CIA website was out of date about who runs the UK as a story · 125 points
HN discussionOpenSanctions | Data Platform Engineer | Full-time | REMOTE (EU) / HYBRID Berlin | https://opensanctions.org We help to keep people and companies accountable for their political and economic actions. OpenSanctions builds an open source database that tracks a wide range of entities in the public interest: sanctioned companies, politicians, fraudsters and criminals. Originally built to support anti-corruption journali…
Comment linking /docs/company/jobs/2024-09-dataeng/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2024)”Submitted How Russian Data on Sanctioned Companies is disappearing and how we put it back as a story · 7 points
HN discussionOpenSanctions | Customer Engineer | REMOTE (EU/Asia/Americas -- no US) or HYBRID Berlin | €~55k-€~75k | https://www.opensanctions.org/ OpenSanctions builds an open source database of sanctioned entities, PEPs, and other risk-relevant subjects used in compliance screening and investigations. We’re hiring a Customer Engineer to bridge customers and engineering. You’ll help customers integrate our API and bulk data, re…
Comment linking /docs/company/jobs/2026-02-customer-engineer/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)”Submitted Show HN: An open database of sanctions and persons of interest as a story · 7 points
HN discussionOpenSanctions | https://opensanctions.org | Data / Integration Engineer | REMOTE (Europe, Berlin) | Full-time OpenSanctions helps to keep people and companies accountable for their political and economic actions. We build a database that tracks a wide range of entities in the public interest: sanctioned companies, politicians, fraudsters and criminals. Originally built to support anti-corruption journalists, OpenSan…
Comment linking /docs/jobs/2023-03-data-engineer/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2023)”Submitted OpenSanctions – Open database of sanctions targets and persons of interest as a story · 2 points
HN discussionInteresting article regarding semantic data. Found via https://www.opensanctions.org/articles/2022-01-18-peppercat/ ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29976576 - The CIA lost track of who runs the UK, so I picked up the slack)
Comment linking /articles/2022-01-18-peppercat/
on “Things, not strings: Knowledge graphs for investigative reporting”Submitted How OpenSanctions deduplicates companies and people across data sources as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted More Than a Technical Problem: Name Matching in Sanctions Screening as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open Sanctions as a story · 1 points
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