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New comment by theaniketmaurya in "VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare"

theaniketmaurya — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:48:08 +0000

So it's Vue vs Next now?

SkillOpt: Executive Strategy for Self-Evolving Agent Skills

theaniketmaurya — Tue, 26 May 2026 16:59:35 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.23904

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48282461

Points: 4

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Show HN: Automate legacy software on a Windows Sandbox

theaniketmaurya — Tue, 26 May 2026 16:43:29 +0000

The majority of legacy systems run on the Windows operating system.

It is hard to automate with computer-use agents because of weird pop-ups, lack of a DOM like browsers, random clicks, and cost at scale.

We built an agent harness and sandbox to automate any legacy software. Our Windows Sandbox (SmolVM) is open-source and can be used with a Python SDK or CLI - https://github.com/CelestoAI/SmolVM

We will also publish our agent harness benchmark report soon.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48282202

Points: 1

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New comment by theaniketmaurya in "Launch HN: Minicor (YC P26) – Windows desktop automations at scale"

theaniketmaurya — Tue, 26 May 2026 16:25:51 +0000

Congrats on the launch! Legacy system users are also one of the slowest to adopt AI. How do you navigate that?

New comment by theaniketmaurya in "Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability"

theaniketmaurya — Mon, 11 May 2026 21:10:09 +0000

Who is using Mythos to find these things and where do they run it?

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

theaniketmaurya — Mon, 11 May 2026 21:09:19 +0000

Building an execution layer for AI agents so people don't have to use Mac minis to run OpenClaw.

https://docs.celesto.ai

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

theaniketmaurya — Mon, 11 May 2026 21:08:35 +0000

Building the execution layer for AI agents.

https://docs.celesto.ai

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

theaniketmaurya — Thu, 07 May 2026 10:00:26 +0000

This is something solved by a bunch of new sandboxes including ours - SmolVM

https://github.com/CelestoAI/smolVM

Show HN: I'm running parallel Pi agents on a local sandbox

theaniketmaurya — Sun, 03 May 2026 03:07:08 +0000

I've been running Pi using SmolVM to build SmolVM!

SmolVM provides an abstraction over microVMs to easily create sandboxes for coding agents, OpenClaw, or just to build a custom harness.

To use it, install using: curl -sSL https://celesto.ai/install.sh | bash

and then run: smolvm pi start

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47992937

Points: 8

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New comment by theaniketmaurya in "Parallel Pi coding agents in a sandbox"

theaniketmaurya — Fri, 01 May 2026 11:06:37 +0000

you can use it with WSL or using our QEMU backend which supports Windows as well.

`SMOLVM_BACKEND="QEMU" smolvm pi start` should do the job.

New comment by theaniketmaurya in "Parallel Pi coding agents in a sandbox"

theaniketmaurya — Fri, 01 May 2026 11:01:41 +0000

I love using Pi with Codex and running multiple sessions on the same repo. To make my life simpler, added a single command to start a pre-installed Pi sandbox.

`smolvm pi start` is all you need!

Parallel Pi coding agents in a sandbox

theaniketmaurya — Fri, 01 May 2026 11:01:41 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/CelestoAI/SmolVM

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47973320

Points: 3

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New comment by theaniketmaurya in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

theaniketmaurya — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:57:26 +0000

Yeah totally relate to this. I’ve been talking to developers and engineers (~60 in total since last month). Most of them are just running YOLO without any security or safeguards while knowing that it’s dangerous.

One guy who works at a coding agent company just casually mentioned that we ask users consent that it can do damage and don’t apply any sandbox. Listening to this was mind boggling for me.

PS: we’re interviewing people as a part of user research for our sandbox product.

New comment by theaniketmaurya in "Show HN: Run coding agents in a sandbox locally"

theaniketmaurya — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:21:27 +0000

I've been building SmolVM -- an open-source AI sandbox focused on making it easy to run agents securely on laptops and on-prem servers.

Over last few weeks, we've improved speed, cold start, added pause/resume, host directory mounting, and a bunch of features.

You can use it with a CLI to manage sandboxes, run coding agents or use with Python SDK to build custom agent harnesses.

Show HN: Run coding agents in a sandbox locally

theaniketmaurya — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:16:38 +0000

Launching SmolVM -- run claude and codex in sandboxed environment with full permissions worry free.

It sucks to “press enter and accept changes” every few seconds while using coding agents. We made it easy to isolate the agent coding environment from the host (laptops).

With a single command you get a claude/codex pre-installed sandbox ready with git credential to make you build a billion dollar business without making any mistake ;)

To give it a try, head to the open-source repo and install SmolVM then run: "smolvm codex start" or "smolvm claude start --mount ./my-project" for a quick experiment.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47916293

Points: 2

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New comment by theaniketmaurya in "What if database branching was easy?"

theaniketmaurya — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:57:09 +0000

i was using neon and they had some similar feature but now using planetscale. would be curious to know how you all are doing it?

New comment by theaniketmaurya in "Open-source isolated runtime for AI agents"

theaniketmaurya — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 17:04:58 +0000

I've been dogfooding it by running coding agents. I mount my local filesystem and pull the changes back when done.

New comment by theaniketmaurya in "Open-source isolated runtime for AI agents"

theaniketmaurya — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:55:55 +0000

I've been working on an open-source isolated runtime for AI agents. Over a period of time I was able to bring the cold start time in sub-seconds, persistent filesystem, and network control.

I'm looking for feedback and if you're into this field - why or *why not* you would use it.

Open-source isolated runtime for AI agents

theaniketmaurya — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:55:55 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/CelestoAI/SmolVM

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47817395

Points: 4

# Comments: 3

I rewrote network setup for sandboxes in Rust and it sped up by 57x

theaniketmaurya — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:34:53 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/CelestoAI/SmolVM/pull/145

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47771136

Points: 2

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