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Hacker News - Thu, 05/07/2026 - 8:55pm
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Show HN: I had a random domain and made a thing

Hacker News - Thu, 05/07/2026 - 8:43pm

Article URL: https://0r.cx

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48057039

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Show HN: Armorer – A secure local control plane for AI agents

Hacker News - Thu, 05/07/2026 - 8:38pm

Hey HN,

I built Armorer because I was tired of two things: 1. The absolute "dependency hell" of setting up new AI agents (Codex, OpenClaw, etc.). 2. The security risk of giving powerful local agents broad access to my host machine.

Armorer is a secure local control plane that manages the lifecycle of your agents. It uses Docker for true process isolation and provides a unified UI/CLI for monitoring and job tracking.

One feature I’m particularly excited about: you can point an existing coding agent at the Armorer repo, and it will autonomously install and configure the entire stack for you securely.

Source: https://github.com/ArmorerLabs/Armorer Website: https://armorerlabs.com

I’d love to hear your thoughts on the architecture and how you're handling agent security locally.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056990

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CNET Feed - Thu, 05/07/2026 - 8:30pm
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Hard SiFi Author'Search for Readers

Hacker News - Thu, 05/07/2026 - 8:12pm

Hi, I’d like to introduce you to my science fiction books but first a little blurb on my background. I’m 75 years old and have spent the majority of my working life working in cyberspace (today’s terminology). My efforts have been concentrated in cybersecurity as an auditor and consultant, now a CEO of my own cybersecurity consultancy. I post numerous articles to LinkedIn on this subject and I’m very concerned with its current direction and ability to service both AI and Quantum computing. This concern has led to my book writing in hard science fiction that is near reality. My series Quantum Worlds consisting of 3 books leads you down a path about cybersecurity’s ability to alter geopolitics. Then leading you on into a world entrenched in the affects of AI, quantum computing and robotics. My series with book one on the cusp of release takes you deep inside the world of robotics coupled with super intelligence that they possess through quantum computing and AI. Initially championed by politicians and scientists as an enhancement to our lifestyle a metamorphosis occurs that leads somewhere else. I have a website in which for you to further explore my works. Please DM me if you wish to pursue me further. Thank you.

https://dougcollinsauthor.com/about

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056817

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Show HN: An OTel exporter that posts the cause to your incident channel

Hacker News - Thu, 05/07/2026 - 8:11pm

Hi HN, Ahmed here. If you already run an OpenTelemetry collector, this is the entire install:

exporters: otlp/incidentary: endpoint: api.incidentary.com:4317 headers: authorization: "Bearer ${INCIDENTARY_API_KEY}" service: pipelines: traces: exporters: [otlp/incidentary] What it does: when an alert fires (PagerDuty, OpsGenie, a Slack command, or a direct webhook), it takes the trace data your services already emitted in the window around the alert and assembles a causal chain like "service-A's HTTP call to service-B returned 503 at 14:22:03; service-B was timing out on Redis; Redis primary was failing over." That artifact lands in the incident channel before the war room fills up.

I built this because every incident I was on opened the same way: a team of engineers opening different tools and coming up with different theories. Datadog had the trace data, Sentry had the errors, Slack had the channel, PagerDuty fired the alert. Nothing stitched them into "what failed first, and what called what." Incidentary does that one thing and nothing else.

Why it isn't a Datadog Watchdog clone:

- Deterministic, not probabilistic. Every edge is proven by an actual parent_ce_id or W3C traceparent in the message envelope. If a service in the path wasn't instrumented, that link appears as a labeled gap, not filled in by a model.

- No LLM in the assembly path. The artifact is identical on a re-run; you can paste it into an RCA without retracting a sentence later.

- Pre-alert capture. The SDKs and the collector processor we ship hold an unsampled rolling window. When error rate, p99, or queue depth increases, the window elevates to full detail before the page fires, so you see the lead-up, not just the aftermath.

- Cluster ground-truth via the K8s operator. OOMs, evictions, HPA scale events. Your application telemetry never sees these. They union onto the same trace by service+time, not by W3C trace context (which most cluster events don't propagate).

If you are on dd-trace and don't run a separate OTel collector: dd-trace v1+ has built-in OTLP export. One env-var flip and you're dual-shipping to Datadog and to us. Or run our Docker sidecar in front of the dd-agent.

Quickstart: https://incidentary.com/docs/quickstart

Free plan: 1,000,000 traces/month, 14-day retention, no credit card. Pricing is per trace, not per span. A 3-service request with two downstream calls is one trace. Most sub-10-service teams stay on free.

Live artifact, no signup, real synthetic incident assembled by the same engine that runs in production, not a video: https://incidentary.com/demo

Pushback I would value:

1. The dd-trace dual-export path. A lot of you run Datadog APM and nothing else. If the env-var flip doesn't survive a real production dd-trace setup, that is the installation path I most need to fix this week. Tell me where it breaks; I would rather hear it from HN than from a user who churns silently.

2. The deterministic-only stance against the AI-Ops wave. I am betting "no hallucinations and you can paste this into an RCA" is worth more than what an LLM can guess from spans. The market is voting differently this year, and I want the strongest case for why I am wrong.

If your collector refuses the exporter, drop the YAML in a reply and I will debug it in the thread. Easier than a support ticket and you get the answer in public.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056811

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