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Show HN: Abuse URL shorteners to host throwaway webpages

1•fainpul•3m ago•0 comments

MCP, Skills, and Agents

https://cra.mr/mcp-skills-and-agents/
1•vinhnx•4m ago•0 comments

Impactor: Feature rich iOS/tvOS sideloading application written in Rust

https://github.com/khcrysalis/Impactor
1•nateb2022•4m ago•0 comments

Debug example build failures with Git bisect

https://ampcode.com/threads/T-019bdc95-07bb-70c9-9db4-1218d41decb2
1•tosh•5m ago•0 comments

Uber Faces Growing Pressure over Sexual Assault Record

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/business/uber-scrutiny-sexual-assault.html
1•buellerbueller•6m ago•0 comments

Vibes Are Not a Metric: A Guide to LLM Evals in Python

https://posit.co/blog/using-evals-in-python/
2•ionychal•8m ago•0 comments

Erasing Encephalitis: Why Vaccine Brain Injuries Became Autism

https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/erasing-encephalitis-why-vaccine
1•bilsbie•8m ago•0 comments

Brussels plans to force governments to block Huawei from 5G

https://www.politico.eu/article/brussels-plans-force-governments-block-huawei-zte-5g/
1•JeanKage•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Semantic search engine for Studio Ghibli movie

https://ghibli-search.anini.workers.dev/
1•aninibread•11m ago•0 comments

The Problem Is Culture

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/the_problem_is_culture
1•logicprog•12m ago•1 comments

Suicides Were Frequent at the Golden Gate Bridge. Not Anymore

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/us/golden-gate-bridge-suicides.html
1•mhb•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: We built Power Apply at night to survive the 9 to 5

https://powerapply.ai/
2•inesbarros1•14m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: At what point does adding AI slow a product down?

1•kajolshah_bt•15m ago•1 comments

Show HN: XFolder – a fast macOS file manager with multi-pane views

https://github.com/zebrapixel/XFolder/releases
2•dreampixel•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Dev visibility for non-technical founders

1•inferno22•16m ago•1 comments

Structural Plasticity in AI Agents: What AI systems can learn from neurobiology

https://augmentedperspectives.substack.com/p/structural-plasticity-in-agents
1•ap_aditipriya•17m ago•1 comments

Ireland wants to give its cops spyware, ability to crack encrypted messages

https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/21/ireland_wants_to_give_police/
7•jjgreen•20m ago•0 comments

From Rock to Tech, Talent Flees Taxes

https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/from-rock-to-tech-talent-flees-taxes/
1•RickJWagner•23m ago•0 comments

2 years building a kids audio app as a solo dev – lessons learned

2•oliverjanssen•23m ago•0 comments

Rewilding Software Engineering: Myths We Tell Ourselves

https://medium.com/feenk/rewilding-software-engineering-ca3ad1e612d8
1•flail•24m ago•0 comments

Why did medieval people invent so many collective nouns? (2023)

https://weirdmedievalguys.substack.com/p/why-did-medieval-people-invent-so
2•crescit_eundo•25m ago•0 comments

Good climate news: thawing permafrost turns out to be a methane sink

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02765-5
2•bilsbie•25m ago•0 comments

Jeffrey Snover, creator of PowerShell, retires

https://twitter.com/jsnover/status/2013932110394904586
1•emot•25m ago•1 comments

Denmark is 'irrelevant,' says US Treasury Secretary

https://www.politico.eu/article/denmark-irrelevant-us-donald-trump-treasury-chief-scott-bessent/
8•jmsflknr•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: GenAI Prompts as "Native" Programs

https://promptcmd.sh/
1•tgalal•25m ago•0 comments

Weight-Loss Drugs Could Save U.S. Airlines $580M per Year

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/travel/airlines-weight-loss-drugs.html
2•ilamont•25m ago•0 comments

Why medieval artists drew ancient Romans in medieval clothes (2023)

https://weirdmedievalguys.substack.com/p/why-medieval-artists-drew-ancient
2•crescit_eundo•25m ago•0 comments

AI Destroys Institutions

https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/publications/how-ai-destroys-institutions/
38•JeanKage•29m ago•18 comments

Show HN: Threadyx – BYOK multi-agent AI coding platform

https://code-agent-frontend-production.up.railway.app/
1•threadyx•29m ago•1 comments

I made AI earphones remember everything (auto-sync to Obsidian)

1•Paddyz•30m ago•0 comments
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Pragmatic Notes on Running Dangerous AI Coding Agents in Cloud VMs

https://jakobs.dev/pragmatic-notes-running-dangerous-ai-agents-cloud-vms/
4•js98•1h ago

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js98•1h ago
Hey all. TL;DR: none of this is super novel or fancy, but the set of a few simple approaches (cloud VM, tailscale for connecting, strong isolation, long-running sessions, basic notifications) made using agents with all tools enabled much more useful for me.

I hadn’t seen many practical writeups on running coding agents in cloud VMs specifically, so I figured it was worth sharing what actually worked day-to-day for me. I use this approach practically daily now