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Show HN: Isolade, a local-first coding agent workbench with secretless microVMs

https://github.com/isolade/isolade
2•jachris•59m ago
I built Isolade because I could not find an open-source, local-first workbench that runs coding agents in microVMs.

The two pieces already exist individually. There are plenty of options for both agent management (Conductor, Herdr, Omnigent) and microVM isolation (Docker Sandboxes, Firecracker, SmolVM). However, I did not find a project that combined them into one unified product.

Isolade gives each agent its own microVM. Microsandbox provides subsecond provisioning and domain-scoped secret substitution, so that the VM only sees placeholder values. Instead of a worktree, each agent gets a copy-on-write clone of the entire setup. This works well for setups involving multiple repositories, and cached dependencies mean agents can start working immediately without any per-worktree setup.

A single UI lets you work with multiple agents concurrently. You can mix Anthropic and OpenAI models and switch providers in the middle of a conversation. For example, I often have Sol review Opus's work. The system prompt is customizable, so for UI tasks, I ask agents to include actual screenshots of their changes or proposals in the conversation. This works much better than Claude's ASCII art.

You can use your existing subscriptions because Isolade runs the official Claude Code and Codex binaries.

Isolade is Apache-2.0 licensed and supports Apple Silicon macOS and Debian or Ubuntu with KVM. Looking forward to hearing your feedback.

Fructose and glucose trigger different brain responses

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/fructose-glucose-trigger-different-brain-res...
1•brandonb•1m ago•0 comments

Bending Spoons buying Airtable for $2.2B

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/04/bending-spoons-to-buy-airtable-for-1-28b/
1•tonylucas•2m ago•1 comments

Which Screen Is the 'Good Screen' Now?

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/08/instagram-tv-app/688134/
1•voxleone•3m ago•0 comments

The Encyclopedia of Database Systems

https://dbdb.io/
1•subset•4m ago•0 comments

Deadmono – detect dead code in Go monorepo

https://github.com/arxeiss/deadmono
1•arxeiss•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Ratelog, Self-hosted movie/TV rater with TMDB integration

https://github.com/golmenero/ratelog
1•golmenero•5m ago•0 comments

EWW, the Emacs browser you underestimate

https://en.andros.dev/blog/e0e00b4b/eww-the-emacs-browser-you-underestimate/
2•andros•6m ago•0 comments

Adding Go's Defer to the TypeScript Compiler

https://healeycodes.com/adding-defer-to-the-typescript-compiler
1•ibobev•7m ago•0 comments

Write in Markdown, serve it dynamic

https://en.andros.dev/blog/3f1244d2/write-in-markdown-serve-it-dynamic/
1•ibobev•8m ago•0 comments

The Dark Side of Static Sites

https://en.andros.dev/blog/1e4b4287/the-dark-side-of-static-sites/
1•ibobev•8m ago•0 comments

The restaurant business is changing beyond recognition

https://www.economist.com/international/2026/07/30/the-restaurant-business-is-changing-beyond-rec...
1•r2sk5t•9m ago•1 comments

Keyv and Cacheable NPM Package Hijacked in Supply Chain Attack

https://www.wiz.io/blog/keyv-and-cacheable-npm-supply-chain-attack
1•datakan•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: GeoAI Skills – agent skills that refuse invalid geospatial analysis

https://github.com/muend/geoai-skills
2•muend•11m ago•0 comments

Oauth2-proxy – proxy with authentication with Google, Azure, OpenID Connect

https://github.com/oauth2-proxy/oauth2-proxy
1•gregsadetsky•13m ago•0 comments

I built an LLM debugger for fine-tuning failures

https://github.com/gradian-ai/gradian
1•abdullah-xyz•13m ago•0 comments

Pdf-inspector: The rust-powered open-source PDF parser for AI

https://firecrawl.github.io/pdf-inspector/
1•richbray•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Implement-spec – a harness-agnostic spec-to-verified-PR agent skill

https://github.com/SteveVitali/agent-skills
4•SteveVitali•14m ago•0 comments

US has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-has-used-virtually-all-its-long-range-precision-missiles-during-...
2•speckx•15m ago•0 comments

AMD Helios Architecture Deep Dive: The Power of AMD's Hardware Combined

https://www.servethehome.com/amd-helios-architecture-deep-dive-amd-broadcom-hardware-combined/
2•ksec•16m ago•0 comments

'Digital lifeline' – Gaza tech workers give glimpse of possible future

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1m1xm8ykk2o
1•CrypticShift•16m ago•0 comments

REO: Revisiting Erase Operation for Improving Lifetime, Performance of NAND SSDs

https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/14/4/738
1•rbanffy•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Flyout – Rich-text notes that fly out from your Mac's screen edge

https://getflyout.app/
2•gorkemyildirim•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I made a self-built catalogue of education Simulation games

https://cloudsims.online
1•zameermfm•17m ago•0 comments

How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026

https://phoboslab.org/log/2026/08/xibalba64-making-of
1•atan2•17m ago•0 comments

I switched from Firefox to Vivaldi for browsing

https://michaelharley.net/posts/2026/08/04/why-i-switched-from-firefox-to-vivaldi-for-browsing/
1•ExMachina73•17m ago•0 comments

Plan 9 from Bell Labs, the little OS that could

https://weeraman.com/plan-9-from-bell-labs-the-little-os-that-could/
4•aweeraman•17m ago•0 comments

We let models localize into 16 languages. How we made it read native.

https://reelang.com/open-startup/blog/llm-localization-context-beats-translator
1•stuess•17m ago•1 comments

At least 37 people arrested in 2026 so far for protesting against data centers

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/at-least-37-people-arrested-in-2026-so-fa...
2•speckx•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Listen to audiobooks like you read, at your own pace

https://listendock.com/sentence-mode
2•janpmz•19m ago•0 comments

Being a Luddite Is Fun Again

https://www.404media.co/luddite-events-nyc-off-tech-summer-of-ludd/
3•surprisetalk•19m ago•0 comments