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The best way to write secure and reliable applications. Write nothing; deploy nowhere.

62 mentions on Hacker News by 53 people: 17 stories, 45 comments · first 2018-02-07 · latest 2026-09-18

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  1. obligatory https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode
    comment by nazgulsenpai · 2026-09-18 · in A heap overflow and SSO misconfiguration to compromise OpenAI internal repos
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    NoCode (2016)
    story by dhorthy · 2026-08-31 · 0 comments
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    Nocode: Way to write secure and reliable applications
    story by yladiz · 2026-07-04 · 0 comments
  4. Was this forked from the nocode project? https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode
    comment by halfcat · 2026-04-24 · in nowhere: an entire website encoded in a URL
  5. …different intentions for starring. Here is another great example of 65K "not wrong" developers: https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode - there is no code, long before AI was a trend, released 9 years ago, but got 65K stars! Doesn't mean…
    comment by throwaw12 · 2026-02-12 · in 65 Lines of Markdown, a Claude Code Sensation
  6. https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode
    comment by skylurk · 2025-11-24 · in We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed bugs
  7. That brings back memories... https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode/issues/3#issuecomm... was one of my favorites
    comment by liggitt · 2025-10-31 · in No Code
  8. Copy of https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode which has been around a lot longer with additional humour in the Issues section.
    comment by suprjami · 2025-10-31 · in No Code
  9. …the sake of supporting windows you now have to use /dev/null externally by writing nothing at all https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode/commit/80f38e0f103...
    comment by gchamonlive · 2025-10-24 · in /dev/null is an ACID compliant database
  10. Looks like the code for MCP support is reviewed and merged: https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode/pull/5540
    comment by thelastgallon · 2025-10-24 · in /dev/null is an ACID compliant database
  11. Best stack cloud providers don't want you to know about, /dev/null for db and https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode for the backend.
    comment by gchamonlive · 2025-10-23 · in /dev/null is an ACID compliant database
  12. Of course, the one and only perfect repo: https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode
    comment by lunarboy · 2025-08-31 · in Code Is Debt
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    Way to write reliable applications. Write nothing; deploy nowhere
    story by Anon84 · 2025-08-05 · 0 comments
  14. Related https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode
    comment by divan · 2025-07-30 · in Fast
  15. This reminded me of no-code: https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode
    comment by perching_aix · 2025-07-03 · in Introducing tmux-rs
  16. ▲ 2
    No Code: Best way to write secure and reliable applications
    story by metayrnc · 2025-03-14 · 0 comments
  17. …to so efficiently not provide any services is impressive, I think they were heavily inspired by https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode
    comment by voganmother42 · 2025-03-01 · in A Letter to the American People
  18. Trae and Cursor have both certainly embraced the Kelsey Hightower take on "no code" platforms https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode https://github.com/getcursor/cursor https://github.com/Trae-AI/Trae
    comment by verdverm · 2025-01-23 · in Trae: An AI-powered IDE by ByteDance
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    NoCode: Way to write secure and reliable applications
    story by diwank · 2024-12-28 · 0 comments
  20. Quite an effective approach: https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode
    comment by halfcat · 2024-11-05 · in We're Leaving Kubernetes
  21. Brilliant. Reminds me of https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode but for general public. Sometimes to get an idea of something you should simply stop thinking.
    comment by nrvn · 2024-09-16 · in Nothing: Simply Do Nothing
  22. Heck they have some zero bit llm's https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode
    comment by hughesjj · 2024-05-31 · in “Imprecise” language models are smaller, speedier, and nearly as accurate
  23. …I'll be honest, I did the same and at first thought Darklang was a troll project along the lines of https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode . Either this is one hell of a project that is taking on all problems (and will consequently…
    comment by dinkleberg · 2024-03-13 · in I'm excited about Darklang
  24. https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode
    comment by toppy · 2023-12-20 · in All code is technical debt
  25. This is the only real no code project out there https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode
    comment by verdverm · 2023-09-22 · in No Code with Superflow
  26. https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode
    comment by nazgulsenpai · 2023-09-07 · in Results of technical investigations for Storm-0558 key acquisition
  27. https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode
    comment by 005 · 2023-08-06 · in Ask HN: Most secure language for a CRUD app?
  28. …are some open source competitors to Airtable and Notion that can provide good insight. Check out https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode
    comment by collinc777 · 2023-06-26 · in Ask HN: How Airtable / Notion's Database is implemented?
  29. …where if you find something odd you adjust it for your needs within 10 minutes and chill out. [0] - https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_aren%27t_gonna_need_it [2] -…
    comment by nrvn · 2023-03-30 · in Show HN: Gut – An easy-to-use CLI for Git
  30. I'm going wait until the Linux install script has been merged - https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode/pull/4967
    comment by Towaway69 · 2023-01-21 · in A page with no code
  31. Easy. Just use the nocode language for that. https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode
    comment by still_grokking · 2023-01-21 · in A page with no code
  32. https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode
    comment by nazgulsenpai · 2023-01-16 · in Windows 98 icons are great (2015)
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    Nocode: Write secure and reliable apps. Write nothing; deploy nowhere
    story by nateb2022 · 2022-10-31 · 3 comments
  34. https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode
    comment by rozenmd · 2022-08-30 · in Ask HN: What's a small example of some of the best code ever written?
  35. when it comes to no code, this is the best out there https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode
    comment by alphabetting · 2021-11-11 · in Ask HN: What do you think about the no-code movement?
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    The best way to write secure and reliable apps. Write nothing; deploy nowhere.
    story by MrRolling · 2021-07-28 · 12 comments
  37. Here you go: https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode
    comment by zaat · 2021-07-20 · in Stopping FTP support in Firefox 90
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    No Code – Write nothing; deploy nowhere
    story by netgusto · 2021-04-08 · 0 comments
  39. Mandatory https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode
    comment by RMPR · 2021-03-10 · in -2000 Lines of Code (2004)
  40. Agree, no-code is a hot marketing term right now. The only legit no-code project I know of is https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode
    comment by verdverm · 2021-01-13 · in No-code platform Webflow (YC) raises $140M at a $2.1B valuation
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    No Code: The best way to write secure and reliable applications
    story by GirkovArpa · 2020-11-18 · 0 comments
  42. …issue in English for example: "The cow has eaten the grass and gone, so there is nothing left" - https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode/issues/4201
    comment by hundchenkatze · 2020-11-04 · in Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend (2016)
  43. https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode
    comment by cratermoon · 2020-11-04 · in Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend (2016)
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    Write secure and reliable applications: Write nothing; deploy nowhere
    story by gilad · 2020-10-10 · 1 comment
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    No code: The best way to write secure and reliable applications
    story by zdw · 2020-09-13 · 0 comments
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    Nocode
    story by tosh · 2020-06-30 · 0 comments
  47. Should add most popular no-code repo on github: https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode Even if it's a pun, it might make people think about it a bit more.
    comment by verdverm · 2020-03-27 · in No Code Resources
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    No Code
    story by fctorial · 2020-03-06 · 0 comments
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    Nocode: Write Nothing; Deploy Nowhere
    story by c0restraint · 2020-01-31 · 0 comments
  50. https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode No interference whatsoever
    comment by AzzieElbab · 2020-01-19 · in On Preventing Programming Languages from Interfering with Programming (1975) [pdf]