Hacker News: messh

New comment by messh in "Turn And Face The Strange"

messh — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 06:27:12 +0000

Try https://shellbox.dev for a less expensive solution, real linux boxes that sping up in seconds and suspend resume as needed. Pay only for what you use

New comment by messh in "John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement"

messh — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 07:36:17 +0000

The videos work because they deliver also some entertainment. The signal that Louis really cares is strong in them

New comment by messh in "Costco is the anti-Amazon"

messh — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 11:39:33 +0000

The argument is that people driving will each buy a lot though, not a single toothbrush. So 100 people driving will deliver as many trucks and would drive much less overall

New comment by messh in "Claude Science"

messh — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:26:10 +0000

They're gonna worsen it

New comment by messh in "Lore – Give your coding agent the decisions your team made"

messh — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 07:20:10 +0000

Seems a bit similar to spec driven development. How does it differ?

New comment by messh in "Herdr: Agent multiplexer that lives in your terminal"

messh — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 07:17:12 +0000

One way is to use something like https://shellbox.dev - you start new boxes and manage it all through ssh, icl agent running inside

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

messh — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 22:34:55 +0000

Checkout https://shellbox.dev for exactly thisnusecase: boxes can be stopped, they are snapshotted to disk then cost just $0.5/month. They wakeup with the same state (memory and processes too) on ssh connections, or web endpoint activity, or just just a cron schedule. When you dont need the box... Just delete it and stop paying. No subscription, managed via ssh

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

messh — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 22:29:51 +0000

An interesting alternative: https://shellbox.dev - manage linux vms via ssh, pay only for what you use. It is much cheaper, no subscription is needed, supports nested virt, docker, custom images, duplication of boxes, gives an ipv6, auto-stop on optional auto stop on disconnect, wakeup on web endpoint hit, email endpoint, exposed ipv6, and more. Parked boxes are just $0.5/month. Create small or large boxes up to 16vcpu with 32gb ram and 400gb hdd

New comment by messh in "How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s"

messh — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:51:20 +0000

Cheaper by a factor of 2-5 depending on your usage. Read here: https://shellbox.dev/#post-race-to-the-bottom

Startup is fast, less than 2 seconds if you pool connections.

Also, what do you mean by optimized environment for chrome. You can use whatever image you want, use an optimized one if there is such thing

New comment by messh in "How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s"

messh — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:20:18 +0000

Just use something like https://shellbox.dev instead of FireCracker inside ec2. Much simpler, boxes are up in a couple of seconds, and it is way cheaper.

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

messh — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:55:57 +0000

Ohh a typo :) it is https://shellbox.dev

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

messh — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 01:53:05 +0000

https://shellnox.dev - instant linux vms via an ssh api. Svales to zero, pay only for what you use

New comment by messh in "Emacs appearances in pop culture"

messh — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:58:13 +0000

now someone do a "VIM appearances in pop culture" :)

New comment by messh in "Software Is Made Between Commits"

messh — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:22:27 +0000

Technically, this is true

New comment by messh in "Aws.com and google.com don't have DNSSEC enabled"

messh — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:31:46 +0000

I have it enabled for an ssh interface for managing linux vms: https://shellbox.dev

Even supports post quantum encryption :)

New comment by messh in "India's surprise baby bust"

messh — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 23:01:38 +0000

We're becoming people that care only about money and career, and kids are not exactly helping...

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.