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lstoddlast Friday at 6:37 PM1 replyview on HN

Hm. I think a dedicated 16-core box with 64 ram can be had for under $1000/year.

It being dedicated there are no limits on session lifetime and it'd run 16 those sessions no problem, so the real price should be around ~$70/year for that load.


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lelanthranyesterday at 8:43 AM

It looks like, to me, that someone spent a long back-and-forth with an LLM refining a design - everything they wrote screams "over-engineered, lots of moving parts, creating tiny little sub-problems that need to then be solved".

I find it very hard to believe that a human designed their process around a "Daytona Sandbox" (whatever the fuck that is) at 100x markup over simply renting a VPS (a DO droplet is what, $6/m? $5/m?) and either containerising it or using FreeBSD with jails.

I'm looking at their entire design and thinking that, if I needed to do some stuff like this, I'd either go with a FUSE-based design or (more flexible) perform interceptions using LD_PRELOAD to catch exec, spawn, open, etc.

What sort of human engineer comes up with this sort of approach?

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