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

tomComb — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:52:42 +0000

But it wouldn’t be non paying customers. That was from the on demand section. I just want to pay for what I use without getting into a subscription.

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

tomComb — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:49:03 +0000

? You say 'yes' but you seem to be answering a different question. Docker desktop only makes me choose a max ram - it dynamically scales RAM usage. I don't need fully automatic like that, but the ability to vertically scale RAM for an existing instance is really important, particularly given the cost of RAM these days.

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

tomComb — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:47:04 +0000

But your pricing page suggests that that is not available without a subscription: in the on-demand pricing section "persistent Snapshots" and "Persistent VM's" have an 'x'.

New comment by tomComb in "Launch HN: Freestyle: Sandboxes for AI Coding Agents"

tomComb — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:04:34 +0000

Can your service scale ram? like the way docker desktop does. Manual is fine.

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

tomComb — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:20:39 +0000

And fly.io sprites

New comment by tomComb in "We replaced RAG with a virtual filesystem for our AI documentation assistant"

tomComb — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:17:59 +0000

And Turso has built a Virtual Filesystem on top of their SQLite.

AgentFS https://agentfs.ai/ https://github.com/tursodatabase/agentfs

Which sounds like a great idea, except that is uses NFS instead of FUSE (note that macFUSE now has a FSKit backend so FUSE seems like the best solution for both Mac and Linux).

New comment by tomComb in "Nanobrew: The fastest macOS package manager compatible with brew"

tomComb — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:30:38 +0000

And zerobrew, like the original Homebrew, is compatible with Linux.

It appears that Nanobrew is not.

I care about the light-weight efficiency of these new native code variants much more when I want to use brew on some little Linux container or VM or CI, than I do for my macOS development machine.

New comment by tomComb in "My Journey to a reliable and enjoyable locally hosted voice assistant (2025)"

tomComb — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:16:01 +0000

The pebble index seems like the optimal form for this.

https://repebble.com/index

Could be pressed even if your hands were busy.

New comment by tomComb in "Your phone is an entire computer"

tomComb — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:42:27 +0000

The pixels all ship with unlocked bootloaders.

New comment by tomComb in "Google Workspace CLI"

tomComb — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:29:27 +0000

Yikes, I wrote that? I hate it when people write cryptic replies like that.

What I meant was 'yes', Google Workspace CLI appears to quite similar to 'gogcli', the CLI written for OpenClaw. Both provide CLI access to a broad range of Google services for both workspace and regular gmail accounts.

GAM, on the other hand, is an admin tool, and strictly for Google Workspace accounts.

New comment by tomComb in "Google Workspace CLI"

tomComb — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 03:15:07 +0000

This - gog - yes. But I think it is different than GAM which is an admin tool. reply

New comment by tomComb in "Google Workspace CLI"

tomComb — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 03:13:21 +0000

I think it is unrelated.

New comment by tomComb in "Switch to Claude without starting over"

tomComb — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 17:02:06 +0000

I felt that way too, until I noticed how different their schemes are for discovering these files, e.g. Claude will pick up context files in parent folders, and Codex doesn’t.

Maybe it’s better that they maintain different names to prevent people from assuming that they work the same

New comment by tomComb in "Setting up OpenClaw on a cloud VM"

tomComb — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 18:29:48 +0000

I think nanoclaw is actually designed to be run that way.

New comment by tomComb in "Deno Sandbox"

tomComb — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 23:44:32 +0000

Yes, sprites looks great too – would certainly be interested in a comparison.

New comment by tomComb in "Anthropic invests $1.5M in the Python Software Foundation"

tomComb — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:27:11 +0000

You are right, it is. But it would be a mistake for us to use this opportunity to attack them for it.

We should applaud their donation today, and at another time assess the meager contributions of many companies that should be shamed.

New comment by tomComb in "ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests"

tomComb — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 13:06:50 +0000

You can see a chat timestamp when it shows up as a search result.

I’m not suggesting this is sufficient, I’m just noting there is somewhere in the user interface that it is displayed.

New comment by tomComb in "I'm returning my Framework 16"

tomComb — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 21:48:11 +0000

Yes, that does sound good, but if someone wants an inexpensive laptop that is also “actually designed for Linux”, they should keep in mind Chromebooks. I don’t think of these as competitors to the framework, but as a lower end alternative that is usually overlooked.

New comment by tomComb in "Comparing AWS Lambda ARM64 vs. x86_64 Performance Across Runtimes in Late 2025"

tomComb — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 16:24:31 +0000

So then one solution might be to buy a Chromebook, and put regular Linux on it? I don’t think the Chromebook are locked down.

New comment by tomComb in "Comparing AWS Lambda ARM64 vs. x86_64 Performance Across Runtimes in Late 2025"

tomComb — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 13:41:42 +0000

Yikes, Node.js did really badly. If this holds up, my take-away would be ...

If I want to use TypeScript for Functions, I should write to the v8 runtimes (Deno, Cloudflare, Supabase, etc) which are much faster due to being much more lightweight.