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New comment by apitman in "Podman 6: machine usability improvements (2025)"

apitman — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:01:34 +0000

I actually just found microsandbox this morning and it looks really solid. One thing it's lacking is GPU support. With smolmachines you can use Vulkan through virtio-gpu/Venus which is quite nice. Can you give more details on what you prefer about microsandbox?

Modern GPU Programming in Rust (2024) [video]

apitman — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:29:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9ep8ID_7n8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48445108

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by apitman in "Podman 6: machine usability improvements (2025)"

apitman — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 22:13:05 +0000

One area this is desirable is AI agents. Often you just need to spin them up for quick ephemeral tasks, but you want more isolation than containers give you. I'm still looking for a good solution here. A cool one I've been playing with recently is https://smolmachines.com/

New comment by apitman in "Valve P2P networking broken for more than 2 months"

apitman — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:18:11 +0000

> The fact that neither STUN nor TURN contain any way whatsoever to accomplish any kind of rendezvous without yet another signaling path boggles my mind

Interesting. Can you expound on this a bit? How does ZeroTier do it?

New comment by apitman in "Ask HN: So what happened to Facebook "localhost" tracking?"

apitman — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:39:23 +0000

I've recently been exploring options for allowing web apps to access LAN services. For example, a WebDAV server so you can watch local videos in the app without streaming them through a server.

You can actually achieve a form of discovery if your service registers itself using mDNS for something like `service.local`. Browsers will allow direct navigation/redirection to `http://service.local`, but they'll block any fetch/XHR requests due to mixed content rules, even if you have CORS configured. And of course you can't get a cert for `.local` domains.

Newer things like Chrome's LNA[0] are actually really helpful, because (for now at least) if the user grants the permission, fetch/XHR will go through, but you'll get a bunch of mixed content warnings in the console.

It seems like the only way to fully support this use case currently is with WebRTC, which is pretty sad.

[0]: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/local-network-access

New comment by apitman in "Ask HN: So what happened to Facebook "localhost" tracking?"

apitman — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:31:29 +0000

Any idea if Safari is on board?

New comment by apitman in "ESP32-S31"

apitman — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:13:06 +0000

Dang would love to have both in the same chip.

New comment by apitman in "Show HN: DropLock – E2EE secret sharing web app with no backend"

apitman — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:28:51 +0000

Thanks Ethan!

New comment by apitman in "Show HN: DropLock – E2EE secret sharing web app with no backend"

apitman — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:28:46 +0000

IndexedDB

Show HN: DropLock – E2EE secret sharing web app with no backend

apitman — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:14:57 +0000

Article URL: https://droplock.apitman.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48371360

Points: 24

# Comments: 7

New comment by apitman in "Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC"

apitman — Sun, 31 May 2026 20:54:41 +0000

If your agent has access to the internet at any point it may read something that convinces it to try breaking out of its sandbox.

New comment by apitman in "Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC"

apitman — Sun, 31 May 2026 20:40:21 +0000

Containers are not security boundaries. Vulnerabilities in containers are much more common than in VMs.

New comment by apitman in "The Speed of Prototyping in the Age of AI"

apitman — Sun, 31 May 2026 20:24:18 +0000

Personally I just ask the AI to put everything into index.html.

Show HN: DropLock – E2EE secret sharing web app with no backend

apitman — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:18:30 +0000

Article URL: https://droplock.apitman.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48337871

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by apitman in "Bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding"

apitman — Sat, 30 May 2026 00:13:38 +0000

Perfect, thanks!

New comment by apitman in "I'm Getting into Mesh Networks (Meshtastic, MeshCore, and Reticulum)"

apitman — Fri, 29 May 2026 19:38:57 +0000

I think GP meant that ham is a mesh in the sense that individual operators will communicate and spread information.

New comment by apitman in "Bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding"

apitman — Fri, 29 May 2026 19:16:33 +0000

This reminds me of the varint encoding used by QUIC, but I've never implemented it. Anyone know the differences?

New comment by apitman in "Claude Opus 4.8"

apitman — Fri, 29 May 2026 01:40:04 +0000

Forget GH pages. Indiehosted ftw.

Show HN: DropLock – E2EE sharing with a single HTML file and no back end

apitman — Fri, 29 May 2026 01:06:48 +0000

Article URL: https://droplock.apitman.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48317708

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by apitman in "Claude Opus 4.8"

apitman — Thu, 28 May 2026 19:19:58 +0000

I like that benchmark. You should throw the results up on GitHub pages so people can try out the games.