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aragoss

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About aragoss

QA Automation Engineer & Backend Developer. Building open-source tools for infrastructure, developer experience, and automated testing. Solving cluster-level headaches with Go, Python, and Kubernetes.

Ask me about: QA automation, K8s operators, and log sanitization. Reach out: iploskovitov@gmail.com

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    199 green and you were stunned, did you check whether those tests would actually catch it if the fix had been subtly wrong, or was seeing green enough?

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    Comment #49071094

    how are you actually handling that separation in practice right now, different agent for the tests, or still mostly manual?

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    Comment #49071081

    have you actually tried breaking something on purpose and seeing if claude's own tests catch it, or is it more that they've just run fine so far?

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    Hey HN, About 3 months ago I posted here the first version of Pii-shield, the tool that sanitizes logs to hide api-keys using Shannon entropy, Luhn algorithm for credit cards, and …

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    Thank you! Appreciate the kind words.

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    Comment #46881776

    Thank you! Hearing that it's being shared is the best kind of validation. If your team ends up trying it out and has any feature requests (or catches any edge cases), I’d love to h…

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    Currently, no — the scanner focuses on entropy and specific Key Names, not value patterns (Regex). However, if your UUIDs live in consistent fields (e.g., request_id, trace_token, …

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    Comment #46876289

    Yes, absolutely. You can fine-tune the sensitivity via the PII_ENTROPY_THRESHOLD environment variable. If you consider UUIDs to be sensitive in your context (or if you are getting …

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    Thanks! UUIDs: By default—no. Since UUIDs are Hex (limited charset 0-f), they have lower entropy than Base64 secrets. The threshold is tuned to sit safely above UUIDs but below API…

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    Update: Seeing some folks pulling the Docker image. Just a heads up — the default entropy threshold is 3.8, which is tuned for API keys. If you are testing with simple words like '…

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    Show HN: PII-Shield – Log Sanitization Sidecar with JSON Integrity (Go, Entropy)

    What PII-Shield does: It's a K8s sidecar (or CLI tool) that pipes application logs, detects secrets using Shannon entropy (catching unknown keys like "sk-live-..." without predefin…

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    Hi HN, I'm a QA engineer and the creator of Chaos Proxy. I built this because... I built this because debugging HTTP traffic with local proxies (like Charles or Proxyman) has becom…

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