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The A.I. Giants Weren't Prepared for This

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-jasmine-sun.html
1•root-parent•2m ago•0 comments

Data center approvals in Texas halted until audits completed, says governor

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/08/03/texas-data-center-project-audit-greg-abbott/
1•rossdavidh•2m ago•0 comments

Another Amiga comparison Timer B vs. Copper

https://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=24389
1•Bluestein•3m ago•0 comments

The Great Giana Sisters

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Giana_Sisters
1•ustad•3m ago•0 comments

How to Get More Customers Without Paying for Ads – Playistry

https://playistry.com/blog/how-to-get-more-customers-without-paying-for-ads
2•playistry•5m ago•0 comments

Maybe software stops being the default

https://sgnt.ai/p/the-software-i-stopped-writing/
2•petesergeant•6m ago•0 comments

History of Artificial Intelligence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_artificial_intelligence
2•ms7892•6m ago•0 comments

Datacenter use over computer use with Akernel

https://github.com/inclusionAI/AKernel
1•henrytan•7m ago•0 comments

Tino Cuellar Joins Anthropic as Chief Global Affairs Officer

https://www.anthropic.com/news/tino-cuellar
1•surprisetalk•8m ago•0 comments

SpaceX's staggered lock-up release prolongs the pain

https://www.ft.com/content/6a8c1d6c-63c7-4d3d-8882-eb5c67b2f9e1
1•root-parent•9m ago•1 comments

Statera AI – Predicting workforce challenges before they happen

https://statera-ai.com
1•johnthuko•10m ago•0 comments

Marmots got money troubles: Cuts to UCLA research lead scientists to OnlyFans

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-08-03/ucla-scientists-onlyfans-marmot-research
1•bookofjoe•10m ago•1 comments

Cloudflare Wallet

https://cloudflare.pay/
2•rany_•11m ago•1 comments

Aladinoulli: Predicting Your Health Arc

https://erictopol.substack.com/p/predicting-your-health-arc
1•simonebrunozzi•11m ago•0 comments

GPIO Announcer

https://excamera.substack.com/p/gpio-announcer
2•jamesbowman•13m ago•0 comments

The Loch Ness Monster Was Real

https://kylesaunders.substack.com/p/the-loch-ness-monster-was-real
2•barry-cotter•14m ago•0 comments

A Data-Driven Explanation: Why Do AI Agents Still Fail

https://jeremytian.substack.com/p/a-data-driven-explanation-why-do
3•jeremytian•15m ago•0 comments

The Warp Agent CLI

https://www.warp.dev/blog/introducing-the-warp-agent-cli-coding-agent
2•emschwartz•16m ago•0 comments

Minutes Ended Story About Epstein's Shady Bank Transactions

https://newrepublic.com/post/213927/60-minutes-killed-story-epstein-shady-banking
3•randycupertino•16m ago•0 comments

First Came the DOGE Cuts, Then Came the Wildfires

https://www.outdoorlife.com/conservation/doge-cuts-forest-service-wildfires/
6•hn_acker•17m ago•1 comments

Show HN: I built a Buffer alternative that also generates the videos

https://videoai.me/login
1•Paul_Grsl•19m ago•0 comments

A free, cross-platform EPUB 3 reader

https://thorium.edrlab.org/en/about/
1•cernocky•21m ago•0 comments

Alpamayo 2 Super, Nvidia frontier open reasoning model for autonomous vehicles

https://twitter.com/JensenHuang/status/2084656303046332747
1•nthypes•22m ago•0 comments

The Download: US robot restrictions, and ICE's DNA grab

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/04/1141098/the-download-robot-restrictions-ice-dna/
3•joozio•22m ago•0 comments

ChainDrop NPM supply-chain attack infects packages

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/massive-chaindrop-npm-supply-chain-attack-infects-...
1•iLemming•24m ago•0 comments

All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen

https://www.valleynewslive.com/2026/08/04/every-flock-camera-winona-minnesota-cut-down-stolen-coo...
5•NDlurker•24m ago•1 comments

RailWarden – Safely run parallel agent harnesses on a single Git repo.

https://github.com/advaith-1212/railwarden
1•Satya_1212•25m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Can we direct AI on our personal projects during work hours?

2•rpnx•26m ago•1 comments

Bending Spoons to Buy Software Firm Airtable for $2.3B

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-04/bending-spoons-to-buy-software-firm-airtable-f...
1•devy•26m ago•0 comments

Average IQ by Country 2026

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/average-iq-by-country
3•amelius•27m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: Ex-Deloitte auditor open-sourced the whole SOC 2 method for your AI

https://github.com/Chiaro-HQ/methodology
28•yylyyl•58m ago

Comments

yylyyl•56m ago
I'm the author. CPA, spent 5 years doing SOC 2 fieldwork at Deloitte, recently started my own audit firm.

This repo is the methodology we actually audit against, not a summary of it: 86 controls, 355 test attributes with pass criteria, evidence standards, and the Type II testing method including how we call deviations, with worked examples. It's generated from the same JSON that drives our audit tooling, so it can't drift from what we actually do.

What "for your AI" means concretely: the framework is JSON rather than prose, so the controls, the attributes, their pass criteria and the evidence map are all machine-readable, and there's a file listing every tool our server exposes. It's CC BY 4.0 — point your own model at it and run your own readiness against the same bar the examination applies. The part that makes that work is 498 calibration examples: each one records a judgment call, the verdict an AI reached, the verdict that was correct, and why. Without those a model grades itself generously.

Why publish it: the audit criteria (AICPA's Trust Services Criteria) are public, but every firm's actual testing layer is a black box. A buyer holding two SOC 2 reports can't tell whether one auditor inspected evidence and the other just collected screenshots — the reports look identical. This year's Delve episode (hundreds of near-identical reports, procedures allegedly drafted before client evidence arrived — allegations Delve disputes) made that opacity harder to defend. Standards bodies publish their standards; we think the testing layer should be public too.

The thing that surprised us building it: sampling mostly shouldn't exist at small-company scale. Sampling exists in audit because looking at everything used to be expensive. At the company sizes we serve, populations are tiny — for most of our 79 sample-typed attributes, a proper sample would have been most of the population anyway — and AI collapsed the cost of looking at the rest. So the method defaults to testing complete populations, and sampling survives only as a disclosed fallback with hash-seeded selection that nobody (client, us, or either side's software) can steer.

Limitations, stated plainly: this is a methodology, not a track record. The firm is new — one Type I issued, no Type II yet. We published the method before the first Type II run on purpose, so it can't be quietly fitted to results afterward. Peer review: enrolled, first review due 2027.

Happy to answer anything about how SOC 2 audits actually work from the inside.

devy•44m ago
Is this how every auditor does though or just you/Deloitte? SOC 2 is a set of guidelines, not mandates, there is one size fits all and every org may design their own security controls based on their unique systems. Is that the same philosophy on the auditing side as well?
yylyyl•37m ago
The method is mine. How I test, what evidence I accept, how I call a deviation. Every firm has their own methodology but none of them publish it.
bookmon•42m ago
Don't most people get the SOC 2 audit to also have credibility from a reputable firm? How valid would an AI SOC 2 audit be for marketing purposes
yylyyl•36m ago
Your AI can read the open source methodology to get audit ready for you without relying on a compliance platform. The actual audit is done by a licensed firm.
bijowo1676•40m ago
Thank you for sharing this, I have a question: can you tell us some lore behind SOC 2 certification, why is this certification is most frequently pursued by startups/tech companies?

Do all SOC 2 audit certifications worth the same, or some worth more, (big four vs smaller firm?)

Are there other/better alternative certifications that provide higher level of assurance to clients?

yylyyl
jpitz•30m ago
This is an incredible resource for someone trying to prep for an audit. Thank you!
yylyyl•27m ago
Appreciate it! Happy to answer any questions.
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28m ago
SOC 2 is almost a must-have for startups if they want to pursue enterprise deals. Not all soc 2 audits worth the same. People usually trust 2 types of audits: 1. a reputable name or 2. a transparent report that can show all the details like what evidence the auditor checks, how the auditor checks it, and what the auditor finds.

And soc 2 currently is the mostly widely accepted one. There are other more specialized ones for sure but not as universally accepted as soc2.