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TheIronYuppie

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TheIronYuppie··on Claude Opus 5.5
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.

TheIronYuppie··on The price of a Costco hot dog has gone up
Mannnn this is dumb. The hot dog is what I am there for! Not the fucking bun! This is a product improvement!!
TheIronYuppie··on Show HN: A bunch of Apache2/MIT log generators
Hiya!

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

TheIronYuppie··on AI Agents Are Running Naked
i couldn't agree more!
TheIronYuppie··on Bacalhau 1.7 with SSO and Partitioned Jobs
Disclosure: I co-founded Bacalhau (bacalhau.org)

If you have any feedback about the platform, would love to hear it!

TheIronYuppie··on Switching from Pyenv to Uv
For scripting... HIGHLY recommend putting your dependencies inline.

E.g.:

  #!/usr/bin/env python3
  # /// script
  # requires-python = ">=3.11"
  # dependencies = [
  #     "psycopg2-binary",
  #     "pyyaml",
  # ]
  # ///
Then -

  uv run -s file.py
TheIronYuppie··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2025)
Bacalhau / Expanso | Distributed Compute and Orchestration | REMOTE | Full-time | Multiple Roles

Expanso[0] is building a distributed compute platform (Bacalhau.org[1]), enabling users to run compute jobs where the data resides, unlocking new possibilities for data-intensive applications. We are fostering an open ecosystem of contributors and partners.

We are looking for passionate and skilled individuals to join our growing team. We have positions open across several areas:

- Senior Software Engineers (Go): Design, develop, and maintain the core Bacalhau platform. Experience with distributed systems, networking, and cloud technologies is highly desired.

- Developer Relations: Engage with the Bacalhau community, create tutorials and documentation, and drive adoption of the platform.

Our stack includes Go, Docker, and various cloud technologies.

Learn more and apply[2]

[0] https://expanso.io

[1] https://bacalhau.org

[2] https://expanso-inc.breezy.hr/

TheIronYuppie··on Show HN: Using Bacalhau and DuckDB for processing remote data
Heya!

Can you say more? We made this container (for DuckDB) with open source code, that anyone can download and play around with.

(To be clear, I wrote this, and cofounded Bacalhau :), and published it to the docs pages here - so that's what I meant by "we")

TheIronYuppie··on Dynamically creating and deploying jobs to Spot with Bacalhau 1.4
Heya!

Dave from the Bacalhau Project - really cool feature for dynamically scaling your cluster and queueing!

Let us know how we can get better!

TheIronYuppie··on Bacalhau 1.3 with Experimental Container-less Execution
Hi!

Can you say more about what you mean? You don't like Substack? We're open to alternatives!

Disclosure: I co-founded Bacalhau

TheIronYuppie··on Securing Distributed Fleets with Bacalhau
Thank you so much!
TheIronYuppie··on Securing Distributed Fleets with Bacalhau
Heya!

Happy to answer any questions about this.

Disclosure: I co-founded Bacalhau.

TheIronYuppie··on Real-Time Distributed Ad-Hoc Log Analysis Using Bacalhau Jobs
Hey all!

Next one in our series of log analysis - do real-time adhoc querying of things like your nginx or other logs.

Disclosure: I lead Expanso

TheIronYuppie··on Couch surfing predator: how a group of drugged and assaulted women fought back
lol exactly - I think not having horrible crimes committed against you is usually “expected”
TheIronYuppie··on Uniqlo's Automated Self-Checkout
it's crazy how good this is - if all self-checkout was like this, it'd be so much better (not sure how possible that is)
TheIronYuppie··on The United States is producing more oil than any country in history
this really is such an underplayed story. No one - not Russia, not Venezuela, not Saudi Arabia - NO ONE is producing more oil than the US.
TheIronYuppie··on IBM demonstrates 133-qubit Heron
do you have some further reading i can do to understand how this maps? thanks!
TheIronYuppie··on Instrumenting WebAssembly: Enhanced Telemetry with Dylibso Observe and Bacalhau
Hey everyone!

The Dylibso team has been awesome to work with - happy to answer any questions!

Disclosure: I cofounded Bacalhau

TheIronYuppie··on 3Blue1Brown Calculus Blog Series
3blue1brown is a treasure.
TheIronYuppie··on Seamless S3 Downloads with Bacalhau
Hey all!

Should specify, this is any s3 interface, not just S3 on AWS :) Let us know if you have any questions!

Dave Disclosure: I co-founded Bacalhau

TheIronYuppie··on Interactive Code Cells
This gets close to something really important, but I'd like to forward something that I wrote previously - the SAME project[1]

The difference/compliment here is that after you finish writing these cells, i think there's a translation into a backend service for execution at scale.

I'd love someone to pick this up and run with it in collaboration with tools like this!

[1] https://github.com/SAME-Project/same-project

TheIronYuppie··on Simplified Bootstrapping with Bacalhau 1.2
If you have any other recommendations to how to make starting a cluster easier, we'd love to hear!

Disclosure: I co-founded Bacalhau

TheIronYuppie··on Fun Cryptic Clues
These are cryptics, not crosswords. The idea is that most clues have two parts, a literal "I" and a figurative "say == 'e.g.', nothing == 'o'".

Cryptics are a language unto themselves - they're not for everyone! But i love them so much.

TheIronYuppie··on Efficient Historic Log Analysis with Bacalhau Batch Jobs
Third of (not sure how many ;) blog posts about improving log processing with Bacalhau. Let us know if you have any questions!

Disclosure: I co-founded Bacalhau

TheIronYuppie··on Deno Cron
Thanks! The idea is that it’s up to you - we offer a demo network, and there are ISPs who are interested in doing this privately, but the default is to allow you to trivially setup your own cluster (much easier and more maintainable than many cluster providers today - no hate! Just different)
TheIronYuppie··on Deno Cron
This is really interesting - we’ve tried really hard to solve some of these with Bacalhau[1] - a much simpler distributed compute platform. Would love your feedback!

[1] https://github.com/bacalhau-project/bacalhau

Disclosure: I confounded Bacalhau

TheIronYuppie··on Tutorial: Save 99% (Yes, 99%) Yearly by Managing Logs the AWS Way
Heya all!

In partnership with a few different customers, we were able to demonstrate some huge cost savings. We'd love to hear if there were other things we should include to make it easier!

Disclosure: I co-founded Bacalhau

TheIronYuppie··on Save $2.5M per Year by Managing Logs the AWS Way
Yeah part of what we’re doing in this example is after you access the summary data, then move the raw data to an archive like Glacier. Savings still works!

Disclosure: I cofounded Bacalhau

TheIronYuppie··on Save $2.5M per Year by Managing Logs the AWS Way
Yep exactly! We got a lot of inspiration from Kubernetes and Nomad - we think their declarative job format and the use of arbitrary package binaries (WASM/Docker) was how they caught fire and changed an ecosystem.

Disclosure: I co-founded Bacalhau

TheIronYuppie··on Save $2.5M per Year by Managing Logs the AWS Way
Hi all!

We're super proud to introduce a new series of use cases around Bacalhau. This week is all about log processing - where you can save 90%+ (that's not a typo) managing your logs.

Please let us know if you have any questions!

Disclosure: I co-founded Bacalhau.

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