Neosync
Data
data anonymization
SHOW HN2024
246points
44comments
#298of 3,515 in 2024
Top 9%of 2024 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
6 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 3 critical, out of 21 comments about the project. Thread score +0.17.
Idea: 5 for, 3 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Open source and useful for compliance-heavy industries
From 2 comments
I love that it's open-source. Great project and very applicable across a lot of industries, especially those deeply affected by compliance.
enahs-sf on HNAmazing open source project! I can see pretty broad application to basically every application developers stack as they're building out their tools, but also working with real…
aj__chan on HN
Handles referential integrity, which the maker says is hard
From 1 comment
Congrats on the launch! This topic is relevant to what I'm currently working on, and I'm finding it exhausting to be honest. After considering several options for anonymizing…
imiric on HN
Objections
Anonymized data can be re-identified by combining attributes
From 3 comments
I don't know exactly how this works, but I wanted to share my experience trying to anonymize data. Don't. While you may be able to change or delete obvious PII, like names, every…
blopker on HNThanks for the reply, I don't mean to be discouraging! I totally believe people do this, I'm saying they shouldn't. There are other issues as well. Once production data is…
blopker on HNBelated reply, sorry: This is the Correct Answer™. Mid 2000s, I worked with electronic medical records. I eventually determined anon isn't worthwhile. For starters, deanon will…
specialist on HN
Cloud offering requires sending raw production data to a third party
From 1 comment
Congrats on the launch! This topic is relevant to what I'm currently working on, and I'm finding it exhausting to be honest. After considering several options for anonymizing…
imiric on HN
Requests
Statistical distribution preservation in anonymized and synthetic data
From 2 comments
Congrats on the launch! This topic is relevant to what I'm currently working on, and I'm finding it exhausting to be honest. After considering several options for anonymizing…
imiric on HNInteresting, but why does it matter that I actually keep the same the same statistical distributions of data in development as in production? What are the use cases for that kind…
chairmanwow1 on HN
Conditional transforms
From 1 comment
Glad to see the transformers are more flexible in the new release- I think they were already better than Datanymizer. The feature request is here for conditional transforms,…
gregwebs on HN
Questions
How does it differ from PostgreSQL Anonymizer
From 1 comment
Congrats on the launch! This topic is relevant to what I'm currently working on, and I'm finding it exhausting to be honest. After considering several options for anonymizing…
imiric on HN
Does it keep statistical distributions of source data
From 2 comments
Congrats on the launch! This topic is relevant to what I'm currently working on, and I'm finding it exhausting to be honest. After considering several options for anonymizing…
imiric on HNInteresting, but why does it matter that I actually keep the same the same statistical distributions of data in development as in production? What are the use cases for that kind…
chairmanwow1 on HN
Alternatives named
Greenmask / datanymizer
From 1 comment
Great to see such a project. We are using datanymizer [1] right now but it has gone unmaintained and we are using my patched version [2] and it is working pretty well for us. I…
gregwebs on HN
PostgreSQL Anonymizer
From 1 comment
Congrats on the launch! This topic is relevant to what I'm currently working on, and I'm finding it exhausting to be honest. After considering several options for anonymizing…
imiric on HN
clickhouse-obfuscator
From 1 comment
Congrats on the launch! This topic is relevant to what I'm currently working on, and I'm finding it exhausting to be honest. After considering several options for anonymizing…
imiric on HN
factory_boy
From 1 comment
I don't know exactly how this works, but I wanted to share my experience trying to anonymize data. Don't. While you may be able to change or delete obvious PII, like names, every…
blopker on HN