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Trunk
Company blog · trunk.io/blog · on HN as trunksuzierossprogrammingai
Trunk is the company blog at trunk.io, writing about programming and ai. Since 2021, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 112 times, most often “Reasons Developers Hate Linters”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (15) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The Trunk blog, from a developer tools company, covers merge queues, linters and logical merge conflicts. Commenters mostly link its posts while promoting the company's products rather than discussing the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 15 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Trunk skips the CI jobs your PR doesn't need, quarantines flaky tests and runs a parallel merge queue. Trusted by Brex, Ramp and Zillow.
Most-linked posts?
- Reasons Developers Hate Linters3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-03-19
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-01-15
- /jobs2 people · 32 mentions · first linked 2023-01-06
- Trunk Merge2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-19
- Show HN: Trunk – One linter to run them all2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-11-30
- Git commit messages are useless2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-01-25
What Hacker News says?
I'm echoing others, but the article on rust async/await seems good. You may or may not agree with the conclusions of the post, but its a technical topic with at least some specific exploration of the (performance/code writing) issues, that links to quite a few further topics for exploration. https://blog.hugpoint.tech/avoid_async_rust.html That said, I noted more than a few typos in the article, so I wonder if there…
Comment linking /blog/git-commit-messages-are-useless
on “Stories removed from the Hacker News Front Page, updated in real time”Submitted Show HN: Trunk – One linter to run them all as a story · 38 points
HN discussionTrunk | https://trunk.io | Sr Analytics Data Engineer ~ Sr Product Designer ~ Full Stack SWE II ~ Full-Time | Remote / Hybrid, SF Trunk is an a16z funded dev tools startup, redefining software development at scale. We've built three products so far and have plans for more: * Trunk Check: a universal linter/formatter, available as a CLI, VSCode extension, and CI check; * Trunk Merge: a merge queue, to ensure that PRs…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2024)”Submitted Git commit messages are useless as a story · 35 points
HN discussionTrunk | https://trunk.io | Sr Back End Eng /Sr Infra Eng| Sr Analytics Data Eng | Sr Product Designer | Technical SDR | Full-Time | Hybrid SF or Remote US or Canada Trunk is an a16z funded dev tools startup, redefining software development at scale. We aim to solve problems that developers hate by bringing the tools usually built in-house at the best engineering orgs to every development team. We've built three prod…
Comment linking /blog/how-we-crack-the-coding-interview
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2024)”Submitted Trunk Flaky Tests – Detect, Quarantine, and Eliminate Flaky Tests as a story · 15 points
HN discussionTrunk | https://trunk.io | Senior Software Engineer- Platform -San Francisco HQ Software Engineer II -Full Stack- Remote US or Canada Trunk is an a16z funded dev tools startup, redefining software development at scale. We aim to solve problems that developers hate by bringing the tools usually built in-house at the best engineering orgs to every development team. We've built 4 products so far and have plans for more…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2025)”Submitted Trunk Merge as a story · 14 points
HN discussionTrunk | https://trunk.io | Senior Data Engineer / DevRel Engineer| Full-Time | Hybrid SF or Remote US or Canada Trunk is an a16z funded dev tools startup, redefining software development at scale. We aim to solve problems that developers hate by bringing the tools usually built in-house at the best engineering orgs to every development team. We've built three products so far and have plans for more: * Code Quality:…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2024)”Submitted Learnings from Analyzing 20.2M CI Jobs to Find Flaky Tests – Part 1 as a story · 7 points
HN discussionTrunk | https://trunk.io |Sr C++ Engineers| Senior Full Stack Engineers | Full-Time | Remote flex Trunk is an a16z funded dev tools startup, redefining software development at scale. We've built three products so far and have plans for more: * Trunk Check: a universal linter/formatter, available as a CLI, VSCode extension, and CI check; * Trunk Merge: a merge queue, to ensure that PRs are tested in order before they…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2024)”Submitted Safely Upgrading Our Open Source Dependencies at Scale as a story · 7 points
HN discussionTrunk | https://trunk.io | Senior Software Engineer (Platform)| Full-Time | Hybrid SF We are looking for a motivated and experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our Platform/Data Engineering team. In this role, you will be responsible for developing and optimizing data ingestion pipelines that can handle vast amounts of real-time and batch data from various sources. Your focus will be on designing systems that…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2025)”Submitted Don't build agents, build context enrinchment as a story · 5 points
HN discussionTrunk | https://trunk.io | Sr Back End Eng / DevRel Eng| Sr Analytics Data Eng Full-Time | Hybrid SF or Remote US or Canada Trunk is an a16z funded dev tools startup, redefining software development at scale. We aim to solve problems that developers hate by bringing the tools usually built in-house at the best engineering orgs to every development team. We've built three products so far and have plans for more: * Tr…
Comment linking /blog/how-we-crack-the-coding-interview
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2024)”Submitted Outgrowing GitHub Merge Queues as a story · 4 points
HN discussionTrunk | https://trunk.io | DevRel Engineer| Designer (Web & Brand) Full-Time | Hybrid SF or Remote US or Canada Trunk is an a16z funded dev tools startup, redefining software development at scale. We aim to solve problems that developers hate by bringing the tools usually built in-house at the best engineering orgs to every development team. We've built 4 products so far and have plans for more: * Code Quality: a un…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2024)”Submitted Wait, why are we paying more for VSCode forks again? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionTrunk | https://trunk.io | SWE II Platform Eng / DevRel Eng| Sr Data Eng Full-Time |SF Office or Remote US or Remote Canada Trunk is an a16z funded dev tools startup, redefining software development at scale. We aim to solve problems that developers hate by bringing the tools usually built in-house at the best engineering orgs to every development team. We've built three products so far and have plans for more: * Tr…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2024)”Submitted Early thoughts on Kiro, Amazon's new agentic IDE/VSCode fork as a story · 4 points
HN discussionTrunk | https://trunk.io | Dev Rel Engineer, Senior Product Designer, Sr Full Stack SWE / Sr C++ SWE| Full-Time | Remote / Hybrid, SF Trunk is an a16z funded dev tools startup, redefining software development at scale. We've built three products so far and have plans for more: * Trunk Check: a universal linter/formatter, available as a CLI, VSCode extension, and CI check; * Trunk Merge: a merge queue, to ensure that…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2024)”Submitted AI Tools Are Not Time Machines as a story · 4 points
HN discussionTrunk | https://trunk.io | DevRel Engineer / Full Stack Software Engineer II| Senior Platform Engineer Full-Time | Hybrid SF or Remote US or Canada Trunk is an a16z funded dev tools startup, redefining software development at scale. We aim to solve problems that developers hate by bringing the tools usually built in-house at the best engineering orgs to every development team. We've built 4 products so far and have…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2025)”Submitted The Joy of a Boring Codebase as a story · 2 points
HN discussionTrunk | https://trunk.io | Sr Full Stack / Sr C++ | Full-Time | Remote / Hybrid, SF Trunk is an a16z funded dev tools startup, redefining software development at scale. We've built three products so far and have plans for more: * Trunk Check: a universal linter/formatter, available as a CLI, VSCode extension, and CI check; * Trunk Merge: a merge queue, to ensure that PRs are tested in order before they're merged; an…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2024)”Submitted (Attempting to) Engineer the chaos out of AI agents as a story · 2 points
HN discussionTrunk | https://trunk.io | Sr Data Engineer / DevRel Engineer| Full-Time | Hybrid SF or Remote US or Canada Trunk is an a16z funded dev tools startup, redefining software development at scale. We aim to solve problems that developers hate by bringing the tools usually built in-house at the best engineering orgs to every development team. We've built 4 products so far and have plans for more: * Code Quality: a univer…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2024)”Submitted Beyond the editor: Bringing AI to the rest of your dev workflow as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI actually recently joined a startup working on this problem! One of our products is a universal linter, which wraps the standard open-source tools available for different ecosystems, simplifies the setup/installation process for all of them, and a bunch of other usability things (suppressing existing issues so that you can introduce new linters with minimal pain, CI integration, and more): you can read more about i…
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on “5% of 666 Python repos had comma typo bugs (inc V8, TensorFlow and PyTorch)”Submitted ESLint adopts Trunk as new linter runner in their repo as a story · 2 points
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