Hacker News with Generative AI: Virtual Machines

Webvm: Virtual Machine for the Web (github.com/leaningtech)
This repository hosts the source code for https://webvm.io, a Linux virtual machine that runs in your browser.

Virtual Machines, Web Development, Open Source, Linux, Browsers

198 points by thunderbong 1 day ago | 53 comments

Futexes at Home (specificprotagonist.net)
Writing a toy Java Virtual Machine, as one does, I’ve come across the need to lock objects when a synchronized method or block is run.

Java, Virtual Machines, Programming, Operating Systems

9 points by todsacerdoti 6 days ago | 1 comments

The Poor UX/UI of Major Cloud Providers: ECS/VMs Management (ycombinator.com)
The user experience of major cloud providers is surprisingly poor, especially when it comes to basic VM/instance management.

Cloud Computing, Software Development, Virtual Machines

16 points by Brandon_Chen 7 days ago | 8 comments

VMware Workstation and Fusion are now free for everyone (theverge.com)
VMware made its Fusion and Workstation software that creates and manages virtual machines free for personal use earlier this year. Now, the company announced that as of Monday, it’s free for everyone, including commercial customers. Also, the Fusion (for Macs) and Workstation (for Windows and Linux) Pro versions are no longer available for purchase.

Software, Virtual Machines, Free Software, VMware

5 points by Tomte 9 days ago | 1 comments

Hyperlight: Virtual machine-based security for functions at scale (microsoft.com)
The Microsoft Azure Core Upstream team is excited to announce the Hyperlight project, an open-source Rust library you can use to execute small, embedded functions using hypervisor-based protection for each function call at scale.

Virtual Machines, Security, Rust, Open Source, Cloud Computing

171 points by yoshuaw 14 days ago | 38 comments

Accelerating the Performance of Rosetta in Linux VMs on Apple Silicon (apple.com)

Apple Silicon, Linux, Performance, Virtual Machines

136 points by transpute 14 days ago | 45 comments

Windows infected with backdoored Linux VMs in new phishing attacks (bleepingcomputer.com)
A new phishing campaign dubbed 'CRON#TRAP' infects Windows with a Linux virtual machine that contains a built-in backdoor to give stealthy access to corporate networks.

Cybersecurity, Phishing, Linux, Virtual Machines, Backdoors

15 points by sandwichsphinx 16 days ago | 0 comments

iPod fans evade Apple's DRM to preserve 54 lost clickwheel-era games (arstechnica.com)
Dozens of previously hard-to-access games can now be synced via Virtual Machine.

Gaming, Apple, Virtual Machines

8 points by CharlesW 17 days ago | 0 comments

Claude Computer Use agent spins up another agent in its VM (twitter.com)

AI, Programming, Virtual Machines

1 points by benocodes 29 days ago | 0 comments

Implementing an Intermediate Representation for ArkScript (lexp.lt)
ArkScript is a scripting language, running on a VM. To accomplish this, we had (as of September 2024) a compiler generating bytecode for the virtual machine, receiving an AST from the parser (and a few other passes like name resolution, macro evaluation, name and scope resolution…).

Programming Languages, Compiler Design, Virtual Machines

5 points by jackrabbit_ 33 days ago | 2 comments

Uxn (100r.co)
The Uxn/Varvara ecosystem is a personal computing stack based on a small virtual machine that lies at the heart of our software, and that allows us to run the same application on a variety of systems.

Virtual Machines, Operating Systems, Personal Computing

450 points by tosh 44 days ago | 98 comments

Ask HN: What do you use to backup your VMs? (ycombinator.com)
How do you backup VMs with installed Postgres, MariaDB instances and local files?

Virtual Machines, Backup, Databases, Data Management

74 points by bykof 57 days ago | 57 comments

Mkfs.fat on Linux vs. OS/2 2.1 (uninformativ.de)
I often run VMs with old operating systems in them, like OS/2 2.1. Exchanging data with these VMs is a bit tedious, because there's usually no networking. I can basically only use floppy images or HDD images. For the longest time, I used a 256 MB disk image that I once created manually under MS-DOS. This usually worked, but being confined to a fixed size is not that great.

Operating Systems, Virtual Machines, Data Storage

38 points by zdw 61 days ago | 14 comments

How to Break Out of Hyper-V and Compromise Your Admins (truesec.com)
In this blog post we will explain novel attacks scenarios that affects the widely used protocols PowerShell Remoting and PowerShell Direct. Are you using PowerShell Remoting to manage your environment? Are you using PowerShell Direct to manage virtual machines in your hypervisor platform? Then you need to read this and take action to ensure you are not affected.

Cybersecurity, Hyper-V, PowerShell, Virtual Machines, Admin Security

10 points by truesec 67 days ago | 0 comments

Boost your development environment with Ubuntu Multipass (letsdebug.it)
Ubuntu Multipass is used to quickly launch and manage Linux virtual machines on any workstation.

Ubuntu, Virtual Machines, Development Environment, Linux

48 points by indigodaddy 75 days ago | 27 comments

Kamal: Reason behind choosing Docker instead micro VMs (like firecracker) (github.com/basecamp)

Docker, Virtual Machines, Software, Cloud Computing

15 points by tosh 79 days ago | 6 comments

Set Up a $4/Mo Hetzner VM to Skip the Serverless Tax (shipixen.com)

Cloud Computing, Serverless, Cost Optimization, Virtual Machines, Hetzner

89 points by tosh 81 days ago | 86 comments

The Design and Implementation of the CPython Virtual Machine (codingconfessions.com)

Python, Virtual Machines, Programming Languages

58 points by todsacerdoti 81 days ago | 6 comments

RunCVM: An open-source Docker runtime for launching container images in VMs (github.com/newsnowlabs)