Hacker News: TheIronYuppie

DiscoBox: AI Coding Agents in Disposable Sandboxes

TheIronYuppie — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 19:29:13 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/discobox-ai/discobox

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49806850

Points: 1

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New comment by TheIronYuppie in "Claude Opus 5.5"

TheIronYuppie — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 19:00:40 +0000

fwiw, it makes total sense to me.

if you are in a long race, you don't run all out teh entire time. you pace yourself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacing_strategies_in_track_and...

That couldn't be more exactly what they are doing here.

RegEx 101 for Data Pipelines

TheIronYuppie — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 18:50:17 +0000

Article URL: https://sift.expanso.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49806236

Points: 1

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Mullet of Log Processing: Determinism in the Front, AI at the Back (Expanso/Jev)

TheIronYuppie — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 18:35:55 +0000

Article URL: https://expanso.io/blog/log-triage-expanso-jev/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49791429

Points: 2

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Bad Apple but It's Frontier Lab Benchmarks [video]

TheIronYuppie — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 20:04:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3CJnpUG3tY

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49580176

Points: 2

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New comment by TheIronYuppie in "The price of a Costco hot dog has gone up"

TheIronYuppie — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 19:50:04 +0000

Mannnn this is dumb. The hot dog is what I am there for! Not the fucking bun! This is a product improvement!!

New comment by TheIronYuppie in "Show HN: A bunch of Apache2/MIT log generators"

TheIronYuppie — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:22:38 +0000

Hiya!

I vibe-coded^W^Wwrote this - please tell me what we can do to help make it more useful!

Show HN: A bunch of Apache2/MIT log generators

TheIronYuppie — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 23:42:52 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/expanso-io/log-simulators

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48522598

Points: 4

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Show HN: Data Processing Recipes for Edge Computing and AI Agents

TheIronYuppie — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 20:33:29 +0000

Hey HN,

I'm David, CEO of Expanso. Today we're launching Expanso Skills — a catalog of 200+ production-ready data processing pipeline recipes for AI agents.

The problem: Every team rebuilds the same data processing primitives from scratch. PII scrubbing, log aggregation, GDPR routing, schema enforcement, dead letter queues. Each time, slightly broken. Each team, from zero.

What we built: Reusable, composable pipeline recipes that run on Expanso Edge (our open-source distributed compute layer). Think npm packages, but for data processing.

A few examples: - `remove-pii` — Strips sensitive fields before data reaches your AI agent - `parse-logs` — 1,000 raw log lines → 1 structured JSON digest (99.9% reduction) - `cross-border-gdpr` — Routes data based on jurisdiction automatically - `dead-letter-queue` — Capture and retry failed pipeline messages - `fan-out-kafka` / `fan-out-s3` — Distribute processed data to multiple destinations - `enforce-schema` — Validate and coerce incoming data before it hits downstream services

Install and run in under 2 minutes: expanso skill install remove-pii expanso skill run remove-pii --input ./customer-data.csv

Why this matters for AI agents: Most agent frameworks assume agents can query whatever they want. That's a security and compliance disaster. Skills enforce least-privilege at the infrastructure level — agents never see raw data, only filtered, purpose-fit outputs.

Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/expanso-skills?utm_sour...

Happy to answer anything — architecture, specific skill implementations, edge deployment. Ask away.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47066006

Points: 2

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Digital Pheromones: What Ants Know About Agent Coordination That We Don't

TheIronYuppie — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 18:59:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.distributedthoughts.org/digital-pheromones-what-ants-know-about-agent-coordination/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47006350

Points: 2

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Show HN: OctoStore = Leader election as a service (single binary, self-hostable)

TheIronYuppie — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 03:28:04 +0000

I got tired of standing up etcd clusters just to do leader election. Every option is either "run your own consensus cluster" or "use AWS."

OctoStore is distributed locking as a simple HTTP API. Sign up with GitHub, get a bearer token, POST to acquire a lock. That's it.

Under the hood: single Rust binary (Axum + DashMap + SQLite). No Redis, no Raft, no consensus protocol. Fencing tokens for actual safety (unlike Redlock). Locks auto-expire at max 1 hour, 100 locks per account.

Free hosted at api.octostore.io, or download the binary and self-host. SDKs for Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, Java, C#, Ruby, PHP.

No business model. No enterprise tier. No VC funding. Just a thing that should exist.

Landing page: https://octostore.io/ API docs: https://api.octostore.io/docs GitHub: https://github.com/octostore/octostore.io

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46984568

Points: 3

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New comment by TheIronYuppie in "AI Agents Are Running Naked"

TheIronYuppie — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:54:08 +0000

i couldn't agree more!

AI Agents Are Running Naked

TheIronYuppie — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:12:40 +0000

Article URL: https://expanso.io/blog/2026-002-your-ai-agents-are-running-naked/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46963139

Points: 3

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The Benchmark Saturation Problem: Why AI Evaluation Needs Systems Thinking

TheIronYuppie — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 07:51:58 +0000

Article URL: https://distributedthoughts.org/the-benchmark-saturation-problem-why-ai-evaluation-needs-a-systems-thinking-approach

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45383920

Points: 2

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Show HN: Sample Sensor Data Generator for Your Testing

TheIronYuppie — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 00:29:04 +0000

Hey!

Just the latest version of my sensor log generator - I kept having problems where i needed to demo building many thousands of sensors with anomalies and variations, and so i built a really simple way to create one.

Have fun! (Completely Apache2/MIT)

https://github.com/bacalhau-project/sensor-log-generator/pkg...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44946941

Points: 1

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