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Show HN: NGB, an open-source .NET platform for document-driven business apps

perkovsky — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:50:55 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/ngbplatform/NGB

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48588924

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New comment by perkovsky in "Testing distributed systems with AI agents"

perkovsky — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:44:35 +0000

I like the “claim-driven” framing.

For stateful systems, tests named after setup details often get weakened over time. Tests named after the claim they are trying to falsify are harder to water down.

The part I’d be most interested in is how well this works for business invariants like idempotent posting, no lost acknowledgements and recovery after partial failure.

New comment by perkovsky in "Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised"

perkovsky — Tue, 19 May 2026 13:04:00 +0000

Agree. Postinstall scripts should be explicit opt-in, not ambient capability.

Most packages should not need arbitrary code execution during install. And when they do, that should be obvious during review.

The default should probably be: install files, don’t run code.

New comment by perkovsky in "Leaving GitHub for Forgejo"

perkovsky — Wed, 13 May 2026 13:55:17 +0000

I agree with this. Moving the git repo is easy, moving the whole project surface is the hard part.

Issues, releases, CI, docs, security advisories, search and discoverability all tend to get coupled to GitHub over time.

For open-source projects, I like the idea of self-hosted as the source of truth, but still keeping a read-only GitHub mirror so people can actually find it.

New comment by perkovsky in "Learning Software Architecture"

perkovsky — Tue, 12 May 2026 16:32:30 +0000

Yes. I’d add: design the module boundaries before splitting deployment.

A modular monolith still forces you to name ownership, data boundaries and invariants, but without making every mistake a networking/ops problem.