DepsGuard
Security and privacy
supply chain hardening
SHOW HN2026
40points
7comments
#1,387of 4,366 in 2026
Top 32%of 2026 by points
How HN took it
QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project
2 positive, 0 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 0 critical, out of 3 comments about the project.
Idea: 2 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Line about saving someone from a supply chain attack is great and security tooling's unseen wins are a real problem
From 1 comment
The "did it save someone from a supply chain attack? Also probably yes" line is great. The problem with security tooling is exactly this — you never see the attack you prevented.
craftedcode on HN
Useful for verifying settings already set manually
From 1 comment
I love this! Although I've already gone through and made manual updates, I'll still give this a try. It's worth it even just to verify that I haven't missed anything. Thanks for…
jcjmcclean on HN
Objections
Project-level config files were not found in one tester's run
From 1 comment
I tried this out after finding it on one of your comments yesterday, the good: it set some values in global config files for me which was handy, the not so good: I still haven't…
drcongo on HN
Requests
Clearer and easier usage, as the maker acknowledged
From 1 comment
Thanks for using it and thanks for the feedback! Would you mind opening an issue here with the steps you did (including OS / method of installing) I’ll do my best to fix it.…
eranation on HN
Alternatives named
cooldowns.dev, which covers cooldowns across more ecosystems with a shell helper
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