Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderTo the maintainer of this repo, please make it accessible and easy to understand. The animated image is a bit too fast to read and follow, especially considering that there is absolutely no explanation right at the beginning for what the tool does AND why the tool is required for anyone. I had to scroll down a lot to get to the part where the important details are (which could answer the question "why should I even look at or…
Sops original author here. I haven't contributed to the project in a few years, but it's really cool to see that it continued to grow and gain traction outside of Mozilla. Thanks folks!
FWIW, KMS can get expensive if you're (for example) using transparent S3 encryption. Once you enable that (which is actually of dubious security value anyway), every S3 operation involves a KMS operation, which can get surprisingly substantial pretty fast. (I'm not making any comment on Sops per se - just saying to be careful around KMS,and thus Sops, for high-volume requirements.)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23031628
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 319
- Total comments
- 65
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-11-01 | Secrets management stinks, use some sops | jvehent | 1 | 0 |
| 2015-11-02 | Sop is an editor of encrypted files that supports YAML, JSON and TEXT formats | areski | 1 | 0 |
| 2016-01-03 | Sops – editor of encrypted files that supports YAML, JSON and BINARY formats | jvehent | 1 | 0 |
| 2017-07-06 | SOPS – an editor of encrypted files that encrypts with AWS KMS and PGP | yankcrime | 1 | 0 |
| 2017-07-16 | Encrypt only secret data, leaving file structure easy-t-read | TokenDiversity | 3 | 0 |
| 2018-01-14 | Sops – An editor of encrypted files using AWS KMS and PGP | 0xmohit | 55 | 15 |
| 2020-05-01 | Mozilla/SOPS: Secrets OPerationS | based2 | 2 | 1 |
| 2020-12-08 | Simple and flexible tool for managing secretsFirst breakout · Best thread | known | 139 | 32 |
| 2023-03-11 | Mozilla/Sops: Simple and flexible tool for managing secretsLatest 20+ point return | nateb2022 | 116 | 17 |