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Tangled
Company blog · blog.tangled.orgprogrammingsystems
Tangled is the company blog at blog.tangled.org, writing about programming and systems. Since 2025, 23 different Hacker News readers have linked it 49 times, most often “Tangled – combat LLM spam by building a web of trust”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (16) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Tangled's blog posts to explain its features: Nix-based CI (spindles), stacked changes with Jujutsu, vouching, federation, and its seed funding. The comments are mostly bare links.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 16 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Announcements, engineering write-ups and newsletters from the team building Tangled, a code forge on the AT Protocol.
Most-linked posts?
- /stacking6 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2025-09-26
- Tangled – combat LLM spam by building a web of trust4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-05-01
- Tangled CI runs on microVMs4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-06-30
- 6 Months of Tangled3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-10-21
- Bobbin: A diskless, API-only AppView for Tangled3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-07-13
- /seed/2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-04-29
- Tangled Newsletter 01 – Hello2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-17
- Tangled: Our €3,8M seed round2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-03-02
- /federation2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-29
- Tangled – We need a federation of forges2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-29
What Hacker News says?
I pinged them on Bluesky to join this HN story comments, they would be better equipped to answer https://bsky.app/profile/tangled.org There looks to be a blog post here: https://blog.tangled.org/ci
Comment linking /ci
on “Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions”Submitted Tangled, a Git collaboration platform built on atproto as a story · 332 points
HN discussionTangled has a nix based workflow engine that looks very similar, if you are into nix and self-hosting runners https://tangled.org/tangled.org/core/blob/master/docs/spindl... (no affiliation) --- Blog post about Tangled's CI: https://blog.tangled.org/ci
Comment linking /ci
on “Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions”Submitted 6 Months of Tangled as a story · 7 points
HN discussionYou don't need to, Jujutsu[1] gives you most of mercurial with some additional stuff. And relevant for this subthread, Tangled appears to work with it[2]. [1] https://docs.jj-vcs.dev/latest/ [2] https://blog.tangled.org/stacking
Comment linking /stacking
on “Migrating Dillo from GitHub”Submitted Tangled – combat LLM spam by building a web of trust as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThere’s this as well: https://blog.tangled.org/stacking
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on “I see a future in jj”Submitted 6 months of Tangled as a story · 4 points
HN discussionLearned recently about their support for Jujutsu at JJ Con last week: https://blog.tangled.org/stacking
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on “Tangled, a Git collaboration platform built on atproto”Submitted Run Your Own CI as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAnd then when people put comments on your commits and you force-push new ones, does it link the updated version of each commit to its previous self, giving a clear timeline of comments and changes? I don't think so. But if people write comments at the MR level and you fix them in new commits, then the throughline is clear. I think a workflow like this for atomic commits would be nice. tangled.sh supports it for juju…
Comment linking /stacking
on “The Theatre of Pull Requests and Code Review”Submitted Tangled – We need a federation of forges as a story · 3 points
HN discussionPerhaps humanizing posts like this: https://blog.tangled.org/federation
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on “Ghostty is leaving GitHub”Submitted Tangled CI runs on microVMs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionwe have been stacking on tangled.org for a while now, you can see a few examples of stacks we have made here: https://tangled.org/tangled.org/core/pulls?state=merged&q=st... for example, this stack adds a search bar: https://tangled.org/tangled.org/core/pulls/1287 - the first PR in the stack creates a search index. - the second one adds a search API handler. - the last few do the UI. these are all related. you are r…
Comment linking /stacking/
on “GitHub Stacked PRs”Submitted 6 Months of Tangled as a story · 2 points
HN discussiontangled.org supports native stacking with jujutsu, unlike github's implementation, you don't need to create a new branch per change: https://blog.tangled.org/stacking/
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on “GitHub Stacked PRs”Submitted Tangled – tail CI logs over SSH as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYep, this is similar to some other version control tools like Tangled which has vouching. https://blog.tangled.org/vouching/
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on “We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag”Submitted Bobbin: A diskless, API-only AppView for Tangled as a story · 1 points
HN discussionweb-of-trust models can help https://blog.tangled.org/vouching/
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on “AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere”Submitted Tangled Newsletter 02 – Vouching, CI logs over SSH, and more as a story · 1 points
HN discussionwe need to break free from monocultures: https://blog.tangled.org/federation/
Comment linking /federation/
on “GitHub Has an Availability Problem. Is It Time to Look Elsewhere?”Submitted Tangled – tail CI logs over SSH as a story · 1 points
HN discussionyou can selfhost all components of tangled, takes about 200mb of memory and zero disk at the moment (api.tangled.org is completely stateless!): https://blog.tangled.org/bobbin/
Comment linking /bobbin/
on “Gleam Is Now on Tangled”Submitted Combat LLM spam by building a web of trust as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> you’re tied to both tangled (unless you want to self host a forge, which if you did you wouldn’t have picked tabgled) this is true today only because nobody has made an alternative "frontend". but the data is there, public, for anybody to see. they can't take it from you even if they really wanted to. in fact, tangled has been working on making it easier for such third-party "frontends" to exist: https://blog.tang…
Comment linking /bobbin/
on “Gleam Is Now on Tangled”Submitted Tangled Newsletter 01 – Hello as a story · 1 points
HN discussionWith "spindles", apparently: https://blog.tangled.org/spindle-microvm/
Comment linking /spindle-microvm/
on “Gleam Is Now on Tangled”Submitted Tangled Newsletter 01 – Hello as a story · 1 points
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