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Postman Blog
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Postman Blog is the company blog at blog.postman.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2020, 47 different Hacker News readers have linked it 63 times, most often “Storage Challenges in the Evolution of Database Architecture”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Postman's blog as a source on its response to npm supply-chain malware, the free-plan security model, two-way Git sync, and HTTP headers. All mentions are citations, not endorsements.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The Postman blog is your hub for API resources, news, and community. Learn about the Postman API Platform and much more.
Most-linked posts?
- Storage Challenges in the Evolution of Database Architecture3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-10-01
- 2021 Postman Plans and Pricing Updates3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-10-21
- Postman to limit Free plan from 3 users to 13 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-02-01
- Postman removes collections for users without an account (a.k.a. Scratch Pad)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-13
- Postman launches v11 to supercharge development with AIs and APIs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-01
- Postman raises $150M Series C at $2B valuation2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-06-11
What Hacker News says?
Postman posted a blog entry about the event: https://blog.postman.com/engineering/shai-hulud-2-0-npm-supp... "Our security engineering team is investigating the matter and thus far has concluded that while some public Postman NPM packages were infected, (1) Postman as an app is not compromised, and (2) our production cloud services are also not compromised."
Comment linking /engineering/shai-hulud-2-0-npm-supply-chain-attack/
on “Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected”Submitted Postman Now Supports gRPC as a story · 409 points
HN discussionYes. The post is misleading and we have more detail on what we do here. https://blog.postman.com/engineering/postman-free-is-secure-... Postman allows for turning off history, keeping variables local, setting up a local vault all in the free product and in more advanced plans, there are secret scanning capabilities for IT and security teams. https://blog.postman.com/choose-the-right-postman-plan-for-y... These issue…
Comment linking /choose-the-right-postman-plan-for-your-organization/
on “Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down”Submitted Postman raises $225M Series D at $5.6B valuation as a story · 53 points
HN discussionYou can do a 2-way sync now! https://blog.postman.com/the-reimagined-api-first-workflow-f...
Comment linking /the-reimagined-api-first-workflow-for-developers/
on “Postman Now Supports gRPC”Submitted Postman Has Acquired Orbit as a story · 13 points
HN discussionWe introduced two-way sync with GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket etc recently so you can keep your Postman collections inside version control while being able to work with them inside Workspaces. Details here: https://blog.postman.com/the-reimagined-api-first-workflow-f...
Comment linking /the-reimagined-api-first-workflow-for-developers/
on “Postman Now Supports gRPC”Submitted Postman launches v11 to supercharge development with AIs and APIs as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSo many good lists out there to just copy off of... https://blog.postman.com/what-are-http-headers/ https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/HTTP_Headers_... https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/http-headers/
Comment linking /what-are-http-headers/
on “Is your website Secure!”Submitted Postman acquires Akita for automated API observability as a story · 10 points
HN discussionHasn't sync been around since 2015? https://blog.postman.com/postman-2-0-with-sync-is-here/ This is not a new problem with recent versions - it's always been a problem as far as I can tell.
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on “Postman users are probably leaking their secrets to Postman's hosted servers”Submitted Escape API Security (YC W23) Partners with Postman on Open Source (GraphMan) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Postman Desktop App’s New User Interface as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Postman raises $150M Series C at $2B valuation as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted 2021 Postman Plans and Pricing Updates as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Postman raises $150M Series C as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Choose HTTP or gRPC for Your Next API as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Implementing Role-Based Access Control with Warrant and Postman as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Power of Platform API Governance for Enterprises as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What We Learned from 200k OpenAPI Files as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted New Zealand Startup Spritely Uses Postman to Create Health Tech for Retirees as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google vs. Oracle: The Importance of the Supreme Court API Copyright Decision as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Postman’s AWS API Gateway Integration as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Postman to limit Free plan from 3 users to 1 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Postman Acquires Fern as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Postman v11: supercharging development with AI and APIs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Postman removes collections for users without an account (a.k.a. Scratch Pad) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Postman Uses JSON Schema as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Postman limiting use of local collection runner as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a Slack Bot with the Twitch API and Postman as a story · 2 points
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