Hacker News: binsquare

New comment by binsquare in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

binsquare — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 19:23:08 +0000

Sony also used to mock digital only approaches.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWSIFh8ICaA

Now at a time when memory and storage prices are at an all time high - they pull a move that directly hurts the customer.

New comment by binsquare in "Ask HN: Secure wrapper for coding agents?"

binsquare — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 18:41:53 +0000

Yep, I needed to go deeper down the stack in order to get to the lightweight optimizations I needed.

New comment by binsquare in "Ask HN: Secure wrapper for coding agents?"

binsquare — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 18:40:42 +0000

I build a local, cross platform virtual machine for this purpose: https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm

New comment by binsquare in "A way to exclude sensitive files issue still open for OpenAI Codex"

binsquare — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 06:29:49 +0000

Fixed and released in v1.3.1: https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm/pull/497

New comment by binsquare in "A way to exclude sensitive files issue still open for OpenAI Codex"

binsquare — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 18:06:44 +0000

smolpi looks great!

and smolvm does clean up ephemeral runs if the machine run exits gracefully. I'll take a deeper look into this edge case and fix it today.

New comment by binsquare in "A way to exclude sensitive files issue still open for OpenAI Codex"

binsquare — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 16:07:11 +0000

I made a lightweight vm specifically for this use case: https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm

New comment by binsquare in "MicroVMs: Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control"

binsquare — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 08:08:20 +0000

Would like to see this! Wonder how you got GUI support working because with vulkan support - you effectively enable running games cross platform

New comment by binsquare in "MicroVMs: Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control"

binsquare — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 07:14:13 +0000

Confirming, I worked directly on fargate.

Fargate does not use firecracker. It was used for some internal workloads but was being migrated off at the end of 2025.

New comment by binsquare in "MicroVMs: Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control"

binsquare — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 19:38:16 +0000

I designed my take to basically eliminate the concept of vm being a rigid box of cpu/memory with CPU oversubscription and virtio-ballooning on memory + sparse ext4.

That way it can be elastic in CPU, memory and somewhat disk.

How far are you on your take?

New comment by binsquare in "MicroVMs: Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control"

binsquare — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:54:53 +0000

check this out https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm

will have a hosted platform soon with GPU support (vulkan)

New comment by binsquare in "Running MicroVMs in Proxmox VE, the Easy Way"

binsquare — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 19:47:11 +0000

author of smolmachines here,

CUDA support is possible based on a cursory dive. I'll keep you posted on it

ref: https://thevirtualhorizon.com/2024/05/31/how-to-configure-th...

New comment by binsquare in "Running MicroVMs in Proxmox VE, the Easy Way"

binsquare — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 17:05:49 +0000

Author of a free open source alternative to slicer, based on a fork of libkrun (not firecracker based) that runs locally across wsl, macOS, and Linux natively.

https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm

New comment by binsquare in "A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer"

binsquare — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:39:23 +0000

Would highly recommend running any repo in an isolated environment like a vm

New comment by binsquare in "GLM 5.2 Is Out"

binsquare — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 18:15:19 +0000

this sentence hurts to read

New comment by binsquare in "Queues Don't Fix Overload (2014)"

binsquare — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:36:43 +0000

I agree with this - queues may not be the end all solution but it is a valuable tool in our kit.

And in the right situations, it can be enough.

New comment by binsquare in "Running Python code in a sandbox with MicroPython and WASM"

binsquare — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:05:51 +0000

It actually supports wsl(windows) and has the ability to persist binaries.

New comment by binsquare in "macOS Container Machines"

binsquare — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:13:54 +0000

Thanks, appreciate your contributions and bug reports

New comment by binsquare in "macOS Container Machines"

binsquare — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:44:03 +0000

I built this tool to solve that exact problem: https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm

New comment by binsquare in "macOS Container Machines"

binsquare — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 05:37:12 +0000

Linux VMs on doesn't have to be expensive!

New comment by binsquare in "macOS Container Machines"

binsquare — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 05:36:15 +0000

Might consider https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm

It's a full vm