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Show HN: LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persistent memory

https://github.com/localgpt-app/localgpt
68•yi_wang•2h ago•23 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes (2023)

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
233•valyala•10h ago•45 comments

Haskell for all: Beyond agentic coding

https://haskellforall.com/2026/02/beyond-agentic-coding
26•RebelPotato•2h ago•4 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
144•surprisetalk•10h ago•146 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
177•mellosouls•13h ago•333 comments

Brookhaven Lab's RHIC concludes 25-year run with final collisions

https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/brookhaven-labs-rhic-concludes-25-year-run-with-final-collis...
63•gnufx•9h ago•55 comments

IBM Beam Spring: The Ultimate Retro Keyboard

https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/ibm-beam-spring-the-ultimate-retro-keyboard
19•rbanffy•4d ago•4 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
173•AlexeyBrin•15h ago•32 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
152•vinhnx•13h ago•16 comments

LLMs as the new high level language

https://federicopereiro.com/llm-high/
41•swah•4d ago•91 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
125•samasblack•12h ago•75 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
298•jesperordrup•20h ago•95 comments

Show HN: I saw this cool navigation reveal, so I made a simple HTML+CSS version

https://github.com/Momciloo/fun-with-clip-path
69•momciloo•10h ago•13 comments

FDA intends to take action against non-FDA-approved GLP-1 drugs

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-intends-take-action-against-non-fda-appro...
96•randycupertino•5h ago•212 comments

Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and working with Disney

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
98•thelok•12h ago•21 comments

Show HN: A luma dependent chroma compression algorithm (image compression)

https://www.bitsnbites.eu/a-spatial-domain-variable-block-size-luma-dependent-chroma-compression-...
35•mbitsnbites•3d ago•3 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
566•theblazehen•3d ago•206 comments

Show HN: Axiomeer – An open marketplace for AI agents

https://github.com/ujjwalredd/Axiomeer
7•ujjwalreddyks•5d ago•2 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
286•1vuio0pswjnm7•16h ago•465 comments

Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/windows-locked-me-out-of-notepad-is-the-thin-...
127•josephcsible•8h ago•156 comments

Selection rather than prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
29•languid-photic•4d ago•9 comments

The silent death of good code

https://amit.prasad.me/blog/rip-good-code
81•amitprasad•4h ago•76 comments

I write games in C (yes, C) (2016)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
180•valyala•10h ago•165 comments

OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III

https://openciv3.org/
899•klaussilveira•1d ago•275 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
225•limoce•4d ago•125 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
115•onurkanbkrc•15h ago•5 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
143•videotopia•4d ago•48 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
141•speckx•4d ago•224 comments

Show HN: Look Ma, No Linux: Shell, App Installer, Vi, Cc on ESP32-S3 / BreezyBox

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
299•isitcontent•1d ago•39 comments

Vouch

https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2020252149117313349
34•chwtutha•1h ago•6 comments
Open in hackernews

The Paranoid Guide to Running Copilot CLI in a Secure Docker Sandbox

https://gordonbeeming.com/blog/2025-10-03/taming-the-ai-my-paranoid-guide-to-running-copilot-cli-in-a-secure-docker-sandbox
59•pploug•3mo ago

Comments

jaytaylor•2mo ago
This is a really neat project .

At my company (StrongDM) we recently open-sourced a tool in this space called Leash: https://github.com/strongdm/leash

By default it runs in docker, and also includes an extra sophisticated macOS-native --darwin mode which goes beyond the capabilities and guarantees of the likes of sandbox-exe, bubblewrap, and in some ways docker. Leash provides visibility into and control over every command and network request attempted by the coder agent. Would appreciate any feedback, and will try to get in touch with the author (Gordon).

Now I'll definitely look into automatically supporting pass-through auth for at least gh cli in Leash - always looking for what folks will find useful.

corv•2mo ago
Interesting! The sandboxing space definitely deserves more attention.

On the other side of the spectrum, we're working on a lightweight approach that augments user namespaces with libseccomp to filter syscalls via BPF.

https://github.com/corv89/shannot

jaytaylor•2mo ago
Leash does it via eBPF today. Are you open to a collab?
corv•2mo ago
Absolutely. I’ll send you an email
codazoda•2mo ago
I built a similar container when working on a CTF that didn’t exclude the use of AI tools.

https://github.com/codazoda/llm-jail

udev4096•2mo ago
Docker is not a sandbox, IT'S NOT! If you must, use gvisor or kata runtime for actual sandboxing
pyuser583•2mo ago
Could you expand on this?
NitpickLawyer•2mo ago
Eh. While you're technically correct, there's a lot of nuance here. The threat model of running agents isn't one that needs "actual sandboxing". You're not looking to run malware that is purposefully designed to escape docker/podman. You're mainly looking to prevent the agent running silly rm-f's, or touch files outside its working env, or killing arbitrary processes, or mess up installed software. That's pretty much it. Some network control as well. ALl of these can be achieved with docker.
elaus•2mo ago
It seems plausible that an agentic AI will notice that it's running in a Docker container while debugging some unexpected issues in their task and then tries to break out (only with good "intentions" of course, but screwing things up in the process).

Claude or Gemini CLI absolutely will try crazy things after enough cycles of failed attempts of fixing some issues.

anonzzzies•2mo ago
They absolutely will, but a non-root user inside docker so far, even when asked, did not result in any damage outside the the docker container. With root it managed to break things, but as user it did not find a way. When I asked it to try more 'fishy' things, codes + claude code both refused; after prompting some more 'but we are testing a security tool ' etc, it just tried very meek things that did not manage to do anything.
fulafel•2mo ago
Sounds like the real sandbox in this scenario is the alignment training of the LLMs you tried.
BimJeam•2mo ago
I use incus for these type of things. Comes with advantages as passing through gpu as well.
psidium•2mo ago
I like this. I have crafted a Claude Code docker container to similar effects. My problem is that my env has intranet access all the time (and direct access to our staging environment) and I don’t want a coding agent that could go rogue having access to those systems. I did manage to spin up an iptables based firewall that blocks all requests unless they’re going to the IPs I allowlist on container start (I was inspired by the sandbox docs that Anthropic provides). My problem right now is that some things that my company use are behind Akamai, so a dig lookup + iptables allow does not work. I’ll probably have to figure out some sort of sidecar proxy that would allow requests on the fly instead of dig+iptables.
foreigner•2mo ago
I recently started using Catnip (https://github.com/wandb/catnip) for this. Catnip also automatically manages multiple Git worktrees, and has a responsive UI for mobile.