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A Product Is a Promise(kuril.in)
4 points by Finbarr 19d ago|0 comments
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AI Chip Architectures(jepeake.com)
163 points by Finbarr 25d ago|50 comments
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Send a SAFE(ycombinator.com)
3 points by Finbarr 28d ago|0 comments
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How safe is your sandbox when executing untrusted code?(twitter.com)
2 points by Finbarr 1mo ago|0 comments
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by Finbarr 2mo ago
A team of brilliant people who work at YC shipping products internally and externally.
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by Finbarr 3mo ago
RubyLLM is very easy to use. Made extensive use of it for a project last year. Drawbacks are it was difficult to instrument for true trace observability and it has a pattern where retries will delete the underlying models so the history you
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Sakana Fugu(sakana.ai)
247 points by Finbarr 3mo ago|127 comments
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by Finbarr 4mo ago
Interesting suggestion, thank you!
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by Finbarr 4mo ago
I wouldn't assume that a VM will give you complete security against a determined AI. yolobox started as a way to prevent accidental `rm -rf ~` and has expanded into a set of tools that make working with CLI agents easier. Personally, I
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by Finbarr 4mo ago
Docker was only exposed later, after I realized that any sufficiently determined AI could break out of the container, and attempts to contain it were a waste of time. Also note that the docker socket is not exposed by default. There's
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by Finbarr 4mo ago
The docker compose stack for the applications is spun up on the host. The agents have access to the docker socket which means they can talk to docker from inside their sandbox and spin up new sibling containers on the host. Yolobox isn’t de
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by Finbarr 4mo ago
Did you read the post? That's exactly the problem I just solved.
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by Finbarr 4mo ago
VMs bring greater isolation but they're a lot heavier and slower. The agents just use github for synchronization here, though I've been considering building some kind of todo list overlay locally.
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by Finbarr 4mo ago
Hard drives are cheap and I haven't approached the limit yet. So I left this as a future optimization.
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by Finbarr 4mo ago
Author here. Three months ago I posted a Show HN for yolobox [1] - a sandbox for running AI coding agents without them being able to nuke your home directory. Since then I've been using it almost every day, which eventually meant wanti
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Treat your coding agents like developers(finbarr.site)
24 points by Finbarr 4mo ago|16 comments
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How I sequenced my genome at home(twitter.com)
18 points by Finbarr 5mo ago|5 comments
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by Finbarr 5mo ago
I think you're making some hasty generalizations here. They don't "uniformly" cover for their colleagues. Do you expect the police service to be perfect and never make mistakes? Can you point me towards a single human-ru
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by Finbarr 5mo ago
County was not a typo. It's awful whenever there's an overuse of force in the USA. I'd recommend watching a few police bodycam videos on youtube before judging them wholesale though. The experience of a police officer in the
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by Finbarr 5mo ago
Agreed. Flock has been a key contributor in solving numerous crimes. I'm happy for Flock to be in my county and would like the police to have more access to technology like this, not less.
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by Finbarr 6mo ago
Who cares that the code is garbage? As the models get bigger and more powerful it will be trivial to fully refactor the whole codebase. It’s coming sooner than you think.
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by Finbarr 6mo ago
MS treatments tend to take 3 forms: - immune reset (sledgehammer that can “cure” diseases like MS but with many side effects and potential complications) - immune suppression (super effective but with increased risk of infections and blunts
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by Finbarr 6mo ago
Awesome to see a bash-only method of solving this problem. Also like that it alerts on attempts to read restricted stuff. I built yolobox to solve this using docker/apple containers: https://github.com/finbarr/yolo
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Trump Responds to Anthropic(twitter.com)
8 points by Finbarr 7mo ago|0 comments
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by Finbarr 7mo ago
I wrote an article about this a few days ago that has been gaining a lot of traction: https://finbarr.site/2026/02/12/in-defense-of-saas.html Point solutions are going to be free. Complex systems with support
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In Defense of SaaS(finbarr.site)
4 points by Finbarr 7mo ago|1 comments
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In Defense of SaaS(twitter.com)
2 points by Finbarr 7mo ago|0 comments
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by Finbarr 7mo ago
The whole idea was a bit of a joke and a reflection on how ridiculous it is that people get in trouble for failing to regurgitate the correct takes when certain events occur. It’s like insurance against getting canceled.
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by Finbarr 7mo ago
AI refusals are fascinating to me. Claude refused to build me a news scraper that would post political hot takes to twitter. But it would happily build a political news scraper. And it would happily build a twitter poster. Side note: I want
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by Finbarr 8mo ago
"maybe even a high production value promo video showcasing happy employees, rare wood office counters and a shoes-off policy." Don't forget surfboards! This was a great post, Alex. Thanks for sharing! Hunger and high agency a

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