Hacker News: jordigg

New comment by jordigg in "Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service"

jordigg — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:31:51 +0000

SOC 2 is mostly about proving you do what your policies say, and there’s more flexibility than people think.

For small teams it doesn’t have to be heavyweight. A risk register can be a simple doc with a few real risks and mitigations.

That said, I agree there’s a lot of theater. For smaller companies and budgets, it often turns into rubber stamping. Auditors rely on the evidence you provide, so the report can look much cleaner than day to day reality.

Still, it has value. It forces you to formalize basic practices, and if you want those customers, you’re signing up for that level of scrutiny.

23andMe Files for Bankruptcy

jordigg — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 09:29:13 +0000

Article URL: https://investors.23andme.com/news-releases/news-release-details/23andme-initiates-voluntary-chapter-11-process-maximize/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43458906

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

ServiceNow to Acquire Moveworks

jordigg — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 15:56:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.servicenow.com/company/media/press-room/servicenow-to-acquire-moveworks.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43321922

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by jordigg in "Show HN: 789-Zip – A native macOS app for 7-Zip"

jordigg — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 17:08:29 +0000

One of the recurring actions I need to keep helping other non-technical folks with in macOS is zipping with password. IF you can add that, it could become very useful for a lot of folks.

edit: Just found MacZip as another nice alternative that does it all. Would wish I could look at the code for security purposes.

Productivity app Superpowered pivots to become a voice API platform for bots

jordigg — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 15:47:45 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/10/yc-backed-productivity-app-superpowered-pivots-to-become-a-voice-api-platform-for-bots/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38220306

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Silicon Valley titans used 'strong-arm tactics' to get land for utopian city

jordigg — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 12:06:09 +0000

Article URL: https://nypost.com/2023/10/31/business/silicon-valley-titans-used-strong-arm-tactics-to-get-land-for-utopian-city-local-farmers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38112341

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Woman's experimental bionic hand passes major test

jordigg — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 15:42:50 +0000

Article URL: https://gizmodo.com/bionic-mia-hand-prosthetic-amputee-phantom-pain-1850919751

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37858766

Points: 131

# Comments: 49

New comment by jordigg in "Atlassian Acquires Loom"

jordigg — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 15:02:28 +0000

Loom is an excellent piece of software, but from my perspective in IT I've never been able to justify it's ROI.

I've been always pushing for it to go away as soon as had to start looking at SaaS spend. Looking at the analytics only a few power users really made use of it while the biggest majority of users never used to record or maybe only recorded 1-2 videos a quarter. It was too expensive and video is very expensive to run on the cloud.

Zoom released a competitor recently and that must be killing them. Other companies are also offering cheaper alternatives and egress traffic for video-centric businesses is crazy expensive.

They had layoffs not so long ago, like many companies, and during my last negotiations with them they were very aggressive with pricing. Aggressive to the point of their executive team asking what amount we wanted to pay, and they actually committed to the price we offered...

Glassdoor reviews and Blind comments weren't good at that time either, but that is true for most companies. I think they couldn't keep the revenue curve up-to-the-right to offer a decent return to their investors and it was turning more into an OK business. Time to sell, stay there for a year and move on to start their next thing. For Atlassian is a relevant acquisition, especially as they are also focusing more into chasing freshdesk or zendesk as a customer support platform.

I wish them the best, as I said, the product itself was very well designed and engineered compared to any other alternatives out there. I think they missed to make it relevant and a must have for companies, maybe focusing more to sale to sales and customer experience/support teams which tend to have big budgets compared to other teams.

New comment by jordigg in "Slack's Google Drive App can share your private Docs and Drive files"

jordigg — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 14:28:47 +0000

This has been true since the integration was released and main reason it's been disabled at most companies I've worked at. Definitely nothing new and reported to Slack and Google multiple times, always replied with working as expected. If you don't like how it works, remove it. Recently the UI and options changed a bit and you can now disable previews but I believe is a user setting and not a organization setting.

New comment by jordigg in "Launch HN: Common Paper (YC W23) – SAFEs for Commercial Contracts"

jordigg — Wed, 24 May 2023 07:49:49 +0000

There has been an effort to standardize MNDAs with oneNDA (https://onenda.org/), at least in tech and I've seen it work well for SaaS deals. I think they also released oneDPA but I haven't used it yet to understand if it accepted or not.

I wish more companies would use standard contracts, definitely helpful for smaller orgs with non-existen or very small legal teams. Now we just need them to be well accepted...

The Facebook Papers

jordigg — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 12:36:05 +0000

Article URL: https://gizmodo.com/facebook-papers-covid-19-coronavirus-misinformation-1849667132

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33273678

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Airbnb’s Approach to Access Management at Scale

jordigg — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 10:05:13 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/airbnbs-approach-to-access-management-at-scale-cfa66c32f03c

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32409745

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by jordigg in "An installation-art company called META (or Meta.is) is suing Meta (or meta.com)"

jordigg — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 21:04:05 +0000

I just dropped a message to the CEO via LinkedIn, hope they can check on it. Didn't pop-up for me, either adblock or just being enabled for a sample of the visitors.