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by netcoyote 7mo ago
> What's stopping your agent from overwriting an arbitrary source file (e.g. index.js) with arbitrary code and running it? You're absolutely right :) And even if it could be sandboxed at the source code level, what's to pr
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by netcoyote 7mo ago
As binwiederhier mentioned, we're all solving the same problems in different ways. There are now enough AI sandboxing projects (including mine: sandvault and clodpod) that I started a list: https://github.com/webcoyote&
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by netcoyote 7mo ago
For RTS games I wish we could blame bit flips, but more typically it is uninitialized memory, incorrectly-not-reinitialized static variables, memory overwrites, use-after-free, non-deterministic functions (eg time), and pointer comparisons.
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by netcoyote 7mo ago
Oh yeah, those were some good times. It was great getting early feedback from you & the other alpha testers, which really changed the course of our efforts. I remember in the earlier builds we only had a “heal area” spell, which would a
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by netcoyote 7mo ago
It is huge , but real (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47258500 ) Browsers, videogames, and Microsoft Excel push computers really hard compared to regular applications, so I expect they're more likely to cause
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by netcoyote 7mo ago
I've told this story before on HN, but my biz partner at ArenaNet, Mike O'Brien (creator of battle.net) wrote a system in Guild Wars circa 2004 that detected bitflips as part of our bug triage process, because we'd regularly
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by netcoyote 8mo ago
Sandvault author here: thanks for the shout-out! I would add that in addition to Unix permissions, sandvault also utilizes macOS sandbox-exec to further limit the blast radius.
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by netcoyote 9mo ago
- https://github.com/webcoyote/sandvault : sandboxes AI agents in a MacOS limited user account, and also uses sandbox-exec to limit access, though fence has more strict limitations - https://github.com/w
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by netcoyote 9mo ago
This is the solution I chose for sandvault [0], which works well on my Mac since agents can run OSX-specific tools. It just got added to Homebrew: brew install sandvault Or clodpod [1] for a VM-based solution 0: https://
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by netcoyote 9mo ago
> I left my Mac on top of my car in San Francisco once and the next day when I came back it was still there. Not the latest model, huh? That’s certainly a passive-aggressive way to suggest you upgrade…
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by netcoyote 9mo ago
Here are my open-source (MIT) solutions for Mac development: SandVault [0]: Run AI agents isolated in a sandboxed macOS user account ClodPod [1]: Run AI agents isolated inside an OSX virtual machine 0: https://github.com/web
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by netcoyote 10mo ago
I use a Mac, and wanted to be able to run MacOS programs like Xcode and iOS simulator, so I wrote a couple of different sandbox projects: - SandVault ( https://github.com/webcoyote/sandvault ) runs the AI agent in a low-
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by netcoyote 10mo ago
After reading an article about doing 10,000 pushups in a year ( https://wjgilmore.com/articles/10000-pushups ), I created "push10k", an iOS app to help me keep track and stay motivated. It's free (no money
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by netcoyote 10mo ago
The Vorkosigan Series, by Louise McMasters Bujold. She’s won six (!!!) Hugo awards for her writing, and as Anne McCaffery says, “Boy, can she write”. Space opera with warfare, intrigue, politics, drama, and world building.
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by netcoyote 11mo ago
Here are a couple of (open-source Apache license) projects I wrote to sandbox on Mac, which I use to run my agents, while still being able to build/run macOS apps: Limited user account: https://github.com/webcoyote&#x2F
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by netcoyote 11mo ago
Hey, I got to see this code! Back when Blizzard was still Silicon & Synapse, we got Rebecca's source code to Another World SNES from Interplay to use for a game we would develop, and they would publish, and I was the engine program
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by netcoyote 11mo ago
> is there a concise theory of game design that properly explains why cutscenes are fucking stupid? Yes. In general it's because they're made by a different team, with different incentives, working to a different schedule. They
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by netcoyote 1y ago
There's also an app, MenuWhere, that enables you to configure different keys to walk the menu bar. It's free (but nagware). https://manytricks.com/menuwhere/
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by netcoyote 1y ago
Yes; the ClodPod project uses tart to build & run the VM. My project is a lot of scripts to make the whole thing turnkey.
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by netcoyote 1y ago
Yes, I've used docker and podman. They're great. But I wanted to be able to run Xcode and IOS simulator, which requires macOS, so developed these solutions.
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by netcoyote 1y ago
I'm playing around with sandboxing techniques on Mac so I can isolate AI tools and prevent them from interacting with files they shouldn't have access to -- like all my dotfiles, AWS credentials, and such. I've created two op
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by netcoyote 1y ago
> When you use Claude Code, we collect feedback When they ask "How is Claude doing this session?", that appears to be a sneaky way for them to harvest the current conversation based on the terms-of-service clause you pointed ou
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Show HN: ClodPod – Run Claude Code safely in a macOS VM(github.com)
2 points by netcoyote 1y ago|0 comments
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by netcoyote 1y ago
I joke about this with other folks: - artist: look at my pictures - sound engineer: listen to this intro - UI engineer: check out this screenshot Me (a backend engineer): look at these numbers. See how the one one the left goes up faster th
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by netcoyote 1y ago
> Recently they released a chat bot on their app and so I asked it to close the account and the bot did it for me! Have you filed a support ticket for that? It's clearly a bug. It should have forced you to call an agent so they coul
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by netcoyote 2y ago
> My point is that most of the cheating comes from structuring the game around pro-play I wanted to address the same point txpl did. As someone who's made multiplayer games, I'm stunned that so many players cheat, even when the
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by netcoyote 2y ago
> This could have gone unnoticed for years as so many cloud provider gaffes do. I think that Microsoft is getting away easy here with Oasis publishing the vulnerability report. If Microsoft published the report it would be incumbent upon
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by netcoyote 2y ago
I managed to land my first programming job in DBase for the UCLA admissions office while still a student. On the first day the departing “engineer” (a graduating senior) showed me the application. It was essential for the department to func
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by netcoyote 2y ago
You've done a lot of work, and this seems like an excellent way to ensure events run smoothly! Great work in building a useful service for festivals & vendors and reduce the transaction fees to ... well ... as low as they can reali
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by netcoyote 2y ago
William Gibson: You are an adequate but drug-addled hacker, navigating dangerous, high-tech worlds where blurred realities, conspiracies, and corporate power struggles force you to uncover hidden truths, survive against powerful forces, and

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