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Show HN: Netfence – Like Envoy for eBPF Filters

https://github.com/danthegoodman1/netfence
4•dangoodmanUT•1h ago
To power the firewalling for our agents so that they couldn't contact arbitrary services, I build netfence. It's like Envoy but for eBPF filters.

It allows you to define different DNS-based rules that are resolved in a local daemon to IPs, then pushed to the eBPF filter to allow traffic. By doing it this way, we can still allow DNS-defined rules, but prevent contacting random IPs.

There's also no network performance penalty, since it's just DNS lookups and eBPF filters referencing memory.

It also means you don't have to tamper with the base image, which the agent could potentially manipulate to remove rules (unless you prevent root maybe).

It automatically manages the lifecycle of eBPF filters on cgroups and interfaces, so it works well for both containers and micro VMs (like Firecracker).

You implement a control plane, just like Envoy xDS, which you can manage the rules of each cgroup/interface. You can even manage DNS through the control plane to dynamically resolve records (which is helpful as a normal DNS server doesn't know which interface/cgroup a request might be coming from).

We specifically use this to allow our agents to only contact S3, pip, apt, and npm.

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1•bastawhiz•1m ago•0 comments

Cleaner air is (inadvertently) harming the Great Barrier Reef

https://phys.org/news/2026-01-cleaner-air-inadvertently-great-barrier.html
1•Brajeshwar•3m ago•0 comments

Ancient Spanish trees reveal Mediterranean storms are intensifying

https://phys.org/news/2026-01-ancient-spanish-trees-reveal-mediterranean.html
1•Brajeshwar•3m ago•0 comments

What happens when you train an LLM only on limited historical data

https://www.popsci.com/technology/this-ai-thinks-its-the-1800s/
1•Brajeshwar•3m ago•0 comments

Hey guys, check out my idea

1•harinand•5m ago•4 comments

XSS –> RCE in Screeps, a programming game on Steam

https://outsidetheasylum.blog/screeps/
2•Tiberium•5m ago•1 comments

Geo Is Not the Next Generation of SEO

https://valarmorghulis.io/view/202601-geo-vs-seo/
1•socrateslee•7m ago•1 comments

Human Approval as a Service

1•mf_taria•7m ago•0 comments

Software patches in NixOS for fun and productivity

https://log.pfad.fr/2026/software-patching-in-nixos/
3•todsacerdoti•10m ago•0 comments

The First Full-Scale Cyber War: 4 Years of Lessons

https://techtrenches.dev/p/the-first-full-scale-cyber-war-4
1•bryanrasmussen•11m ago•0 comments

Heart rhythm problems detected four times more often with smartwatches

https://nltimes.nl/2026/01/22/heart-rhythm-problems-detected-four-times-often-smartwatches
1•giuliomagnifico•11m ago•0 comments

More than a quarter of Britons say they fear losing jobs to AI in next 5 years

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/25/more-than-quarter-britons-fear-losing-jobs-ai-ne...
1•chrisjj•13m ago•0 comments

Jack Kerouac on the Steve Allen Show with Steve Allen 1959 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LLpNKo09Xk
1•aabiji•13m ago•0 comments

Kingdoms of Water: The Mekong River, empire, and the limits of human ingenuity

https://worldhistory.substack.com/p/kingdoms-of-water
1•crescit_eundo•16m ago•0 comments

Ice cream is one of the healthiest foods in existence

https://twitter.com/Outdoctrination/status/2015449347920396347
2•bilsbie•16m ago•0 comments

Inside Apple's AI Shake-Up and Its Plans for Two New Versions of Siri

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-25/inside-apple-s-ai-shake-up-ai-safari-and-pl...
2•thm•16m ago•0 comments

Good Taste

https://emsh.cat/good-taste/
1•embedding-shape•17m ago•1 comments

AMD Releases MLIR-AIE 1.2 Compiler Toolchain for Targeting Ryzen AI NPUs

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-MLIR-AIE-1.2
2•pella•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MCP Security Documentation with Code Examples

https://github.com/FinkTech/mcp-security
1•finktech•19m ago•0 comments

Interview: Kim Stanley Robinson, Science Fiction Maestro and Utopian, in 2026

https://sammatey.substack.com/p/interview-kim-stanley-robinson-science-111
2•mitchbob•20m ago•0 comments

Agent-Browser by Vercel Labs

https://github.com/vercel-labs/agent-browser
2•franze•21m ago•0 comments

An Open-Source Alternative to Vercel

https://www.shorlabs.com/
1•shorlabss•21m ago•0 comments

What posting Rails UI to Hacker News taught me

https://railsui.com/blog/what-finally-posting-rails-ui-to-hacker-news-taught-me
2•dorianmariecom•23m ago•0 comments

Turns out I was wrong about TDD

https://martinalderson.com/posts/turns-out-i-was-wrong-about-tdd/
1•martinald•24m ago•0 comments

I Tried to Give AI "Imagination" to Solve Physics Problems

https://github.com/a1j9o94/foresight
1•a1j9o94•24m ago•1 comments

Immanuel 'the Königsberg clock' Kant (2015)

https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/1963-immanuel-kant-the-errrr-walker
1•rishabhd•28m ago•0 comments

The Home Computer Hybrids

https://technicshistory.com/2026/01/25/the-home-computer-hybrids/
1•cfmcdonald•28m ago•0 comments

DCCast: Efficient Point to Multipoint Transfers Across Datacenters (2017)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.02096
1•tanelpoder•29m ago•0 comments

Apex-Agents – Benchmark Productivity of Agents

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14242
1•hereme888•31m ago•0 comments

Claude Code TUI is "a small game engine"

https://twitter.com/trq212/status/2014051501786931427
1•eudamoniac•33m ago•1 comments