Hacker News: etoxin

New comment by etoxin in "Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio"

etoxin — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 22:44:00 +0000

Switching from Q4 to Q8 was a game changer when I upgraded

Cowanomics – A fun stock trading party game that uses web sockets

etoxin — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 08:43:50 +0000

Article URL: https://cowanomics.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49461719

Points: 1

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The Arduino UNO Q is an almost perfect Hermes Agent host

etoxin — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 23:22:49 +0000

I’ve wanted to try out Hermes agent for a while now but I never wanted to run it on my own personal machine. I thought about maybe using a hosted VPS but I wasn’t keen on the ongoing cost. Then I looked a recently acquired Arduino UNO Q. A weird arduino board that has an arduino on one side and Linux on the other side. The Linux chip can communicate to the arduino chip. The board I have has 4GB of ram and 32GB of storage. Plenty of power to run the Hermes agent client. I never intended to run a local LLM on the arduino. I wanted an isolated machine where I could run it that was more affordable than buying a new computer. The Q offered all of this. Affordable, cheap on power and isolated.

So I plugged it in and ssh’d into the board and installed Hermes, setup was pretty straightforward. I connected my ChatGPT subscription and we were in business.

The first thing I asked the agent to do was flash a LED on the board, and it did just that. I then asked it to run the game of life on its 8x13 LED Matrix. Which would need it to interface with the arduino side of the board. After it searched docs for a bit, it had Conways game of life running on the board. Wow.

After setting up messaging it had me thinking, I can plug a whole bunch of electronic components to this thing. The Arduino UNO has these things called Modulino which are electronic components like temperature sensors that can be daisy chained from the board. This creates a whole world of possibilities creating a Hermes IOT agent like thing.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49368474

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by etoxin in "Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents"

etoxin — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 06:42:35 +0000

The docs are here: https://docs.docker.com/ai/sandboxes/

The other url is their marketing page.

Yes, Linux is supported.

Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents

etoxin — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 06:02:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.docker.com/products/docker-sandboxes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49239751

Points: 694

# Comments: 396

New comment by etoxin in "Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code"

etoxin — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 05:27:42 +0000

I'm using Docker Sandboxes with a custom Kit. The cli is nice and the TUI is also good. https://docs.docker.com/ai/sandboxes/

New comment by etoxin in "Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code"

etoxin — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 05:24:41 +0000

At this stage with the latest models with "increased persistence" and the sheer amount of supply chain attacks, you'd be insane not running these tools in a sandbox.

New comment by etoxin in "AI assistant hacks gym website in first known Australian autonomous cyber attack"

etoxin — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:17:35 +0000

Pretty clear cut here. He instructed the AI.

New comment by etoxin in "AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon"

etoxin — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 01:45:03 +0000

And the second hand market. I'd love to see this integrated into motherboards like RAM. Someone could have a motherboard with 4 sticks of different AI with various models. Swap, change and trade.

New comment by etoxin in "Surface – KDL Specification Format – Experimental"

etoxin — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 23:38:53 +0000

I wanted a app spec format that could near deterministically output an application via an AI agent. Change the spec and the LLM could rebuild the whole application with that one change.

I used KDL so a human/you could easily write up a full app and let the agent build the application.

You can keep the spec simple or define the logic in each function with scoped context. You can also define your data model.

Surface – KDL Specification Format – Experimental

etoxin — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 23:38:53 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/etoxin/surface

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49139666

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by etoxin in "The Productivity Mirage"

etoxin — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 06:21:08 +0000

After many years you care less about how cool your setup is and move to the best developer experience (dx) which in most cases is the default.

New comment by etoxin in "Lore – give your coding agent the decisions your team made"

etoxin — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 06:08:46 +0000

Or spec-driven AI development.

New comment by etoxin in "The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup"

etoxin — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 07:57:20 +0000

Hundreds of PR’s per engineer per day! They would have zero visibility of their code. Their AI’s would have no visibility of the million plus lines of code.

Sounds super stable and cool.

New comment by etoxin in "Running local models is good now"

etoxin — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 07:20:37 +0000

I think 75% is about right. It calls tools pretty well and has a good knowledge base. It's absolutely not 90% there, but 75% feels right.

New comment by etoxin in "Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?"

etoxin — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:17:55 +0000

I have not. We use openspec with our projects at work. To try and simulate a local rig without spending big cash. I use the hosted models and pay for them with the latest popular local model.

Most small local models don't get tool calling right, however the larger models are now doing this correctly now.

One thing local has not accounted for, is most productive engineers are running multiple cli chats at a time with git worktrees. I normally hover around 3 worktrees + cli-chats.

New comment by etoxin in "MCP is dead?"

etoxin — Sat, 30 May 2026 05:20:37 +0000

Also MCPs for programs like Chrome Dev tools or Playwright.

New comment by etoxin in "MCP is dead?"

etoxin — Sat, 30 May 2026 05:16:21 +0000

People who say MCPs are dead don’t understand how MCPs work or when to use them.

New comment by etoxin in "I made a CPU only spiking neuron network lib that comes pretty close to PyTorch"

etoxin — Sat, 30 May 2026 04:00:35 +0000

This was a proof of concept to see if a event driven like neuron inspired neural model could work. I heavily used gemini flash 3.5 to build my vision.

I made a CPU only spiking neuron network lib that comes pretty close to PyTorch

etoxin — Sat, 30 May 2026 04:00:35 +0000

Article URL: https://huggingface.co/etoxin/neuronguard-wikipedia-classifier

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48332415

Points: 5

# Comments: 1