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New comment by messh in "The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon"

messh — Wed, 27 May 2026 04:57:23 +0000

what's this glorious "do whatever you want" era???

New comment by messh in "Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust"

messh — Sun, 17 May 2026 00:05:43 +0000

The memory footprint is great, it allows finally running these coding agents in extra small instances -- say x1 on shellbox.dev

New comment by messh in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

messh — Thu, 14 May 2026 03:50:07 +0000

In exe.dev you have a subscription and you get some constant compute, paid whether used or not. that compute is shared between the vms. In shellbox every box has its own dedicated compute and if you don't use any, you don't pay.

Shellbox also gives an ipv6, an email endpoint, wakeup on the web endpoint, it supports nested virtualization, docker, etc. And... it is much cheaper even if you use it 24/7. Ahh and also you can send ssh exec commands, ssh forwarding, and more. It is "real" linux, like you get on classical vps providers

New comment by messh in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

messh — Sun, 10 May 2026 20:59:18 +0000

Instant linux boxes via ssh that suspend on disconnect. Checkout https://shellbox.dev

The idea is to have "real" linux, exposing ipv6, supporting nested virtualization, docker, etc.

New comment by messh in "Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem"

messh — Wed, 06 May 2026 22:08:00 +0000

Sadly this is what sells. Standing out in this regard checkout https://shellbox.dev maybe swinging too far though?

New comment by messh in "Show HN: OSS Agent I built topped the TerminalBench on Gemini-3-flash-preview"

messh — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:07:29 +0000

ohh this is really nice :) testing it

New comment by messh in "Show HN: OSS Agent I built topped the TerminalBench on Gemini-3-flash-preview"

messh — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:47:11 +0000

Anchor based editing requires injecting new anchors to the context, and dirac does so via a diff. So how is this more efficient (token-wise) than search and replace?? Even at a single token per hash. Also, code is read more than written so these just add up. I experimented once with stable anchors, albeit longer than a single token, and found it a downgrade.

My conclusion is that the efficiency dirac sees comes mainly from showing file skeleton by default

New comment by messh in "Show HN: OSS Agent I built topped the TerminalBench on Gemini-3-flash-preview"

messh — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:47:51 +0000

re. bash type tooling-- it doesnt mean an agent cannot use ast: using treesitter cli this should be perfect possible

New comment by messh in "I am building a cloud"

messh — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 02:28:09 +0000

Yes, keep a box running regardless of connections using `ssh shellbox.dev keepalive mybox`

New comment by messh in "Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines"

messh — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:50:39 +0000

The scalability is in the number of instances: create, duplicate and destroy down to zero. Each instance size is fixed.

New comment by messh in "I am building a cloud"

messh — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:48:57 +0000

Thanks for the feedback. Ill improve it. In the meanwhile, there are more technical details on this blog post: https://shellbox.dev/blog/race-to-the-bottom.html

New comment by messh in "I am building a cloud"

messh — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:29:23 +0000

Vms hosted in Hetzner auction instances is exactly how shellbox works. I published more details in here: https://shellbox.dev/blog/race-to-the-bottom.html

New comment by messh in "I am building a cloud"

messh — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:12:35 +0000

There are plenty of alternatives out there. I built https://shellbox.dev, which gives you instant vms via ssh where unlike exe you pay only for what you use-- scale to zero. It is also regular linux, supporting vscode and zed remote, Nested virtualization, etc.

If you're looking to invest im fine with only $5M :)

New comment by messh in "Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines"

messh — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:35:47 +0000

https://shellbox.dev is a hosted version of something very similar

New comment by messh in "Cloudflare's AI Platform: an inference layer designed for agents"

messh — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:25:16 +0000

So, is this similar to openrouter?

New comment by messh in "Codex for almost everything"

messh — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:16:45 +0000

SSH to devboxes is the exact usecase for services like https://shellbox.dev: create a box using ssh... and ssh into it. Now web, no subs. Codex can create it's own boxes via ssh

New comment by messh in "Show HN: Libretto – Making AI browser automations deterministic"

messh — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:20:19 +0000

how does it differ from playwright-cli?

New comment by messh in "Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times"

messh — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:39:50 +0000

It doesn't solve recording and uploading later... say a movie. So how does it even make sense?

New comment by messh in "Show HN: Eve – Managed OpenClaw for work"

messh — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:43:12 +0000

you can spin similar instances very cheaply and billed only for the time openclaw actually runs in https://shellbox.dev ($0.02 for 2vcpu, 4gb ram, 50gb hdd, real linux with headless chrome etc)

New comment by messh in "Launch HN: Freestyle – Sandboxes for Coding Agents"

messh — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:53:50 +0000

Checkout shellbox.dev, you can do pretty much the same, automating it all bia ssh