Hacker News: mkagenius

New comment by mkagenius in "The agent harness belongs outside the sandbox"

mkagenius — Sun, 03 May 2026 16:03:58 +0000

The article misses the point that you can have a third option - harness inside and outside both.

The use cases will evolve so much more in coming weeks and months that the boundaries will blur. You can still contain the agent outside in a sandbox though.

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

mkagenius — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 08:00:24 +0000

With instavm (https://instavm.io), you can provide an OCI image built from a dockerfile.

New comment by mkagenius in "Claude Code Routines"

mkagenius — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:55:29 +0000

I also felt the need for a cloud based cron like automations, so decided to build it myself https://cronbox.sh with:

  1. an ephemeral linux sandbox for each task 
  2. capability to fetch any url
  3. can use tools like ffmpeg to fulfill your scheduled task

New comment by mkagenius in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

mkagenius — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 05:55:08 +0000

Not just sides, the vents are much sharper.

Few years back, I tried to look on reddit for complaints regarding this - barely anything.

New comment by mkagenius in "Research-Driven Agents: When an agent reads before it codes"

mkagenius — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:01:57 +0000

> The biggest problem is the coding agents don't "Fail fast and loud". They fail deceivingly.

GPT 2 and 3 used to fail fast (and loud coz we could easily see it lying)

Show HN: See How You Talk to Claude Code

mkagenius — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:05:44 +0000

I thought it would be fun to see how I have been feeling while talking to claude code.

https://github.com/instavm/claude-cloud

I welcome contributions and suggestions.

p.s. Nothing is uploaded. All local.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47654398

Points: 3

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New comment by mkagenius in "72% of the dollar's purchasing power was destroyed in just four episodes"

mkagenius — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:47:10 +0000

Has to be taken in light of median income too right?

New comment by mkagenius in "Paper Tape Is All You Need – Training a Transformer on a 1976 Minicomputer"

mkagenius — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 20:46:55 +0000

I had the exact same idea but for AI agent harnesses.

I even created an app to explain it - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47381803 (deleted the app as got no traction whatsoever)

Idea was that, the ai models like opus 4.6 and codex 5.4 have become so good at trying new ways to attack a problem, that even just Bash() tool is enough.

Continuing the idea, infact even File() operations are enough.

Again continuing the same line of thought, even just a Tape is enough. Given enough time, codex and opus will achieve your target.

New comment by mkagenius in "AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice"

mkagenius — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 20:37:12 +0000

I think you are absolutely right. (had to)

New comment by mkagenius in "Schedule tasks on the web"

mkagenius — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 06:00:05 +0000

This is a bit restrictive, doesn't take screenshots. So you can't "say take screenshots of my homepage and send it to me via email"

It doesnt allow egress curl, apart from few hardcoded domains.

I have created Cronbox in the cloud which has a better utility than above. Did a "Show HN: Cronbox – Schedule AI Agents" a few days back.

https://cronbox.sh

and a pelican riding a bicycle job -

https://cronbox.sh/jobs/pelican-rides-a-bicycle?variant=term...

New comment by mkagenius in "Local LLM App by Ente"

mkagenius — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:16:47 +0000

Had used cactus before - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44524544

Then moved to pocket pal now for local llm.

New comment by mkagenius in "iPhone 17 Pro Demonstrated Running a 400B LLM"

mkagenius — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:12:28 +0000

Fwiw, my pixel 8 runs Qwen3.5 4B with 2 tok/s speed. Via pocketpal app. Somehow cactus app didn't work.

A retro terminal music player inspired by Winamp

mkagenius — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:42:22 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/bjarneo/cliamp

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47494821

Points: 145

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Show HN: Cronbox – Schedule AI Agents

mkagenius — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 18:59:24 +0000

Cronbox is a cron, where an AI agent wakes up and works on a schedule. We believe a lot of repetitive tasks can benefit a lot from AI agents. And scheduling them in the cloud keeps you hands-free.

You can do things like, taking screenshot of a site, resize it to size 1000 x 1000, and look for price changes on the page and get notified via email.

Or ask it to draw svg of a 'pelican riding a bicyle' whenever a new model is released on openai and mail it to you.

Every job runs in its own linux sandbox, so a lot more things are possible.

While Claude's cloud scheduling is limited by a restrictive sandbox and no screenshot or SVG support, cronbox.sh provides a full power environment with unrestricted libraries, curl, and native web capturing.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47493680

Points: 2

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