Hacker News: metachris

New comment by metachris in "Safe YOLO Mode: Running LLM agents in vms with Libvirt and Virsh"

metachris — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 12:48:56 +0000

Gave your comment a bit more thought and I kind of agree, and removed the image! Thanks for your feedback.

New comment by metachris in "Safe YOLO Mode: Running LLM agents in vms with Libvirt and Virsh"

metachris — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 12:10:29 +0000

Good point! Running in isolation does reduce the amount of sensitive things an LLM has access to though, which typically can be quite a lot (SSH keys, Cloud credentials, communication tools, etc.)

New comment by metachris in "Safe YOLO Mode: Running LLM agents in vms with Libvirt and Virsh"

metachris — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 11:56:56 +0000

I've had LLMs assist me in putting together the comparison. I did edit it, and found the comparison good and wanted to keep it. The rest of the post is all hand written and thoroughly manually tested.

Safe YOLO Mode: Running LLM agents in vms with Libvirt and Virsh

metachris — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 13:44:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.metachris.dev/2026/02/safe-yolo-mode-running-llm-agents-in-vms-with-libvirt-and-virsh/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47002633

Points: 31

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New comment by metachris in "Running Claude Code dangerously (safely)"

metachris — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 21:32:55 +0000

I recently wrote a blog post about just that - how to run LLMs in Lima VMs: https://www.metachris.dev/2025/11/sandbox-your-ai-dev-tools-...

New comment by metachris in "GitLab discovers widespread NPM supply chain attack"

metachris — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 19:22:02 +0000

Absolutely, good old VMs can really provide the needed isolation while still having good UX. I just published a post on setting up dev VMs with Lima: https://www.metachris.dev/2025/11/sandbox-your-ai-dev-tools-...

New comment by metachris in "The AI coding trap"

metachris — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 14:46:29 +0000

Can you work less (maybe for some time)? Getting yourself bigger chunks of free time might help. All the best!

New comment by metachris in "Two undersea cables in Baltic Sea disrupted"

metachris — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 08:06:56 +0000

TLS doesn't help here, because state actors (including China, Russia) own trusted root certificates, which allow them to TLS-terminate for _any_ website they choose and silently decrypt/MITM the traffic.

New comment by metachris in "Stripe's Monorepo Developer Environment"

metachris — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 19:28:22 +0000

You could just rent a beefy server for like $40/month at hetzner or OVH and use VS Code with the remote development extension.

New comment by metachris in "Brazil's Supreme Court decriminalizes marijuana"

metachris — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 06:51:18 +0000

1ox seems like a year's supply for an average person.

A really heavy smoker can consume up to several grams a day. Let's say 5 grams, that'd be 150g per month (5oz per month).

Agree that it's hard to argue for 200 plants being personal use; 20 would be more realistic. For 200 plants, it's a big operation! Also, you can grow them in like 3-month cycles too.

New comment by metachris in "MIT students stole $25M in seconds by exploiting ETH blockchain bug, DOJ says"

metachris — Thu, 16 May 2024 07:39:44 +0000

This was a pretty sophisticated attack and deeply technical execution.

New comment by metachris in "Did grave robbers plunder battlefields?"

metachris — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 15:32:18 +0000

I mean, there were plenty of poor people, and there's free stuff, so...

New comment by metachris in "Satoshi – Sirius emails 2009-2011"

metachris — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 07:20:51 +0000

The Ethereum community still is.

New comment by metachris in "Chili Oil Notes"

metachris — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 06:51:18 +0000

Kürbiskernöl (pumpkin seed oil) should be stored in the fridge, there it lasts pretty long.

New comment by metachris in "Senate Bill to Ban TikTok"

metachris — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 20:32:47 +0000

Well written... sounds like a Dall-E prompt :-)

New comment by metachris in "Principles of Chaos Engineering (2019)"

metachris — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 13:56:52 +0000

It's a versatile tool! Important to note though that nginx will wait for the mirrored requests to complete before it responds to the main request. you can somewhat mitigate this by setting a low mirror timeout.

New comment by metachris in "Challenging algorithms and data structures every programmer should try"

metachris — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 10:36:00 +0000

They are very useful and widely used in blockchains.

New comment by metachris in "Argentina's currency exchange black markets"

metachris — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 11:52:58 +0000

That's a default rpc provider to get Blockchain requests out and data in. aAnd you can change that to any rpc provider in the settings.

New comment by metachris in "Killing invasive species is now a competitive sport"

metachris — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 10:26:39 +0000

It also says that the patrolled areas see a population rebound of native fish species.

New comment by metachris in "Secrets to Great API Design (2019)"

metachris — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 08:18:17 +0000

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/best-pra...