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The NLnet Labs Blog
Company blog · blog.nlnetlabs.nlsystemssecurity
The NLnet Labs Blog is the company blog at blog.nlnetlabs.nl, writing about systems and security. Since 2022, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Open-source software vs. the proposed Cyber Resilience Act”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this NLnet Labs post on open source software and the EU Cyber Resilience Act. Commenters cite it as background when discussing the Act and its effect on open source.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Of Trees and Tries — The NLnet Labs Blog
Most-linked posts?
- Open-source software vs. the proposed Cyber Resilience Act3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-11-14
- Maintaining the love for coding in the time of AI2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-09-16
What Hacker News says?
I have already stored some links about this act. As it is written in the register "The road to hell is paved with good intentions". https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2022/10/the-eus-propose... https://blog.nlnetlabs.nl/open-source-software-vs-the-cyber-... https://blog.opensource.org/what-is-the-cyber-resilience-act... https://devclass.com/2023/01/24/eus-proposed-ce-mark-for-sof... https://berthub.eu/articles/pos…
Comment linking /open-source-software-vs-the-cyber-resilience-act/
on “EU to vote regulation that has a considerable potential to hurt OSS”Submitted Open-source software vs. the proposed Cyber Resilience Act as a story · 214 points
HN discussionShe is one of the people behind the Cyber Resistance Act, recently discussed here: https://blog.nlnetlabs.nl/open-source-software-vs-the-cyber-... . Interesting.
Comment linking /open-source-software-vs-the-cyber-resilience-act/
on “Bags of cash found at the home of the European Parliament vice-president”Submitted Roto: A Compiled Scripting Language for Rust as a story · 164 points
HN discussionShe is one of the people behind the Cyber Resilience Act, recently discussed here: https://blog.nlnetlabs.nl/open-source-software-vs-the-cyber-... .
Comment linking /open-source-software-vs-the-cyber-resilience-act/
on “European parliament VP taken into custody”Submitted The Next Five Years of DNS at NLnet Labs as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted What I Learned in Brussels: The Cyber Resilience Act as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Maintaining the love for coding in the time of AI as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted New DNS Diagnostics Tooling as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Maintaining the love for coding in the time of AI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted One year of Roto, a compiled scripting language for Rust as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted DNS-over-QUIC in Unbound as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cascade standalone DNSSEC signer in Rust from NLnet as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Of donkeys, mules, and horses: data structures for network prefixes in Rust as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Of donkeys, mules, and horses: data structures for network prefixes in Rust as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted XDPerimenting with DNS Telemetry as a story · 1 points
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