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Show HN: I rewrote my 2012 self-signed cert generator in Go – cert-depot.com

2•dimastopel•1h ago
Back in 2012 I built https://cert-depot.com as a weekend project. Node.js + Express + jQuery, shelling out to OpenSSL for certificate generation. It worked but I eventually let it rot. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4766743

Rewrote it from scratch in Go. The entire thing is a single binary with no external dependencies:

1. Certificate generation uses Go's crypto/x509 (no OpenSSL)

2. Certificates are generated in memory and streamed directly — nothing is stored on the server

3. RSA 2048/4096 and ECDSA P-256/P-384

4. Subject Alternative Names (required by browsers since Chrome 58)

5. ZIP (PEM files) or PFX/PKCS#12 output

You comments / suggestions / bug reports are very welcome. Thanks.

Source: https://github.com/dimastopel/certdepot

AACS Encryption Key Controversy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controversy
1•HotGarbage•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Pgproto – Native Protobuf Support for PostgreSQL

https://github.com/Apaezmx/pgproto
1•paezand•1m ago•0 comments

Varta Put a Shotgun on a Drone. Ukraine's Frontlines Say It Works

https://dronexl.co/2026/03/27/varta-shotgun-drone-ukraine/
1•tim333•2m ago•1 comments

Old code never dies: why legacy software is often safer than new code

https://andreafortuna.org/2026/04/02/old-code-never-dies/
1•speckx•2m ago•0 comments

Unmasking the Paramilitary Agents Behind Trump's Violent Immigration Crackdown

https://www.wired.com/story/border-patrol-bortac-borstar-use-of-force-midway-blitz/
2•HotGarbage•2m ago•0 comments

Developer relations after the cheat code machine

https://sunilpai.dev/posts/developer-relations/
1•pretext•3m ago•0 comments

The Cartographer's Advantage: Human Judgment in an AI Security World

https://www.nccgroup.com/research/the-cartographers-advantage-human-judgment-in-an-ai-security-wo...
1•thomc•3m ago•0 comments

Taking multi-master MariaDB for a spin, reproducing a Jepsen report

https://theconsensus.dev/p/2026/03/29/taking-galera-for-a-spin.html
1•eatonphil•4m ago•0 comments

Expi – Edit/Convert. That's It

https://getexpi.app
1•philematic•5m ago•1 comments

How to decorate a simple but effective child's birthday cake

https://blog.rtwilson.com/how-to-decorate-a-simple-but-effective-childs-birthday-cake/
1•surprisetalk•5m ago•0 comments

A Student AI Trap

https://escapethealgorithm.substack.com/p/the-student-ai-trap
1•surprisetalk•5m ago•0 comments

Culture Shift

https://www.asimov.press/p/culture-shift
1•surprisetalk•5m ago•0 comments

The underrated benefits of always having oatmeal at lunch

https://hazn.com/oatmeal
1•surprisetalk•6m ago•0 comments

Qwen3.6-Plus: Towards Real World Agents

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6
2•pretext•6m ago•0 comments

Linux Kernel Technical Deep-Dive Patterns

https://github.com/masoncl/review-prompts/blob/main/kernel/technical-patterns.md
1•prakashqwerty•7m ago•0 comments

Linux smashes past 5% on the Steam Survey for the first time

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/linux-smashes-past-5-percent-on-the-steam-survey-for-the-fi...
1•speckx•7m ago•0 comments

Notes from from Butterick's Practical Typography

https://adamadam.blog/2026/04/01/my-notes-from-buttericks-practical-typography/
1•chilipepperhott•9m ago•0 comments

Codentify – Tobacco Tactics

https://www.tobaccotactics.org/article/codentify/
1•Antibabelic•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Argus – Self-hosted AI that monitors infra and explains what's wrong

https://github.com/precious112/Argus
1•PreciousH•9m ago•0 comments

MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-Image-2 are available in Foundry

https://microsoft.ai/news/today-were-announcing-3-new-world-class-mai-models-available-in-foundry/
2•aratahikaru5•9m ago•0 comments

Learn distributed systems by building real infrastructure on your laptop

1•hamidlabs•10m ago•0 comments

Wikigacha

https://wikigacha.com/?lang=EN
1•amarcheschi•10m ago•0 comments

The IT Department: Where AI Goes to Die (By Ethan Mollick)

https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2026/04/01/the-it-department-where-ai-goes-to-die
1•edward•12m ago•0 comments

The political use of operating systems

https://thelibre.news/the-political-use-of-operating-systems/
3•speckx•13m ago•0 comments

Artemis Mission Reeks of Musk

https://unherd.com/2026/04/artemis-mission-reeks-of-musk/
1•voxleone•13m ago•0 comments

Flow-Like – Local-first workflow automation with WASM nodes (Rust)

https://github.com/TM9657/flow-like
1•flow-like•13m ago•0 comments

The Equilibrium Has Shifted

https://ghost.codenamejimmy.com/the-equilibrium-has-shifted/
1•woodylondon•14m ago•0 comments

Humans have been gambling since the Ice Age

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/humans-have-been-gambling-since-the-ice-age/
1•Brajeshwar•15m ago•0 comments

On-Protocol Organizing

https://blog.muni.town/on-protocol-organizing/
1•erlend_sh•16m ago•0 comments

Meraki Teleworker Gateways: Office-Grade Security for Remote Workers

https://meraki.deal/blogs/news/securing-remote-workforce-meraki-teleworker-gateways
1•novbox•16m ago•0 comments