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A high performance general purpose code execution engine.

9 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 4 stories, 5 comments · first 2021-05-14 · latest 2026-08-22

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  1. …in docker tell me why this guy is using isolate on top of docker to run untrusted user code? https://github.com/engineer-man/piston/blob/master/api/src/j...
  2. nope, this is doing something entirely different https://github.com/engineer-man/piston/blob/master/api/src/j...
  3. - do you mind explaining why you picked this backend? https://github.com/engineer-man/piston - you could simply spawn a docker container for each programming language and run user submitted code inside no?
  4. …stab at building one for Piston, the free remote code execution engine (learn more about Piston at https://github.com/engineer-man/piston ). piston-mcp will let you connect Piston to your LLM and have it run code for you. It's pretty…
    comment by alvii147 · 2025-07-07 · in Piston-mcp, MCP server for running code
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    Ask HN: Secure Python code execution environment
    story by martynassubo · 2024-01-15 · 1 comment
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    A High Performance Code Execution Engine
    story by cbracketdash · 2021-11-12 · 0 comments
  7. Have you checked piston? https://github.com/engineer-man/piston
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    Piston, a multi-language RCE engine
    story by frabjoused · 2021-05-26 · 1 comment
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    Piston: A high performance general purpose code execution engine
    story by frabjoused · 2021-05-14 · 0 comments