41 pointsby tuananha year ago4 comments
  • digdugdirka year ago
    Is there a list of these "code sandboxes" floating around somewhere? It seems like it's going to be more and more important with LLMs playing more of a factor in development moving forward.
    • sudba year ago
      I know of https://modal.com/, which I believe is used by Codegen and Cognition.

      Anecdotally-speaking, I hear that many companies in the LLM agent space roll their own sandbox solutions - I've heard of both Firecracker- and Kubernetes-based implementations.

    • benno128a year ago
      I've got one that uses WebAssembly to run Python, Ruby, C/C++, JS: https://runno.dev/articles/sandbox/
      • apitmana year ago
        You should repost that article on HN. WASI in the browser is awesome and I would love to see some discussion about it.
      • aitchnyua year ago
        Is there a better way to sandbox Python other than using a webassembly build?
        • benno128a year ago
          Yeah for sure: run it inside a virtual machine, or do some sort of docker magic.

          You kind of need to pretend you are a whole computer for a programming language to be happy. There's built in assumptions they're running on a "real" computer. They assume they've got full access to network and disk. Installing packages often requires compiling C extensions, or running native binaries. All that stuff means the best way to sandbox is to virtualise a whole computer.

          It's fun to do it with WebAssembly though, you get a lot of guarantees and it's quite light weight.

    • someguy101010a year ago
      https://github.com/r33drichards/mcp-js mcp for running javascript locally and safely using v8
    • ushakova year ago
      i work on E2B, we are open-source sandbox runtime used by Perplexity, Manus, Hugging Face among others.

      check it out: https://e2b.dev

  • ubermonkeya year ago
    I cannot be the only GenX nerd who reads that and thinks "Master Control Program" from Tron.
  • apignottia year ago
    Does anyone know if there is work on the idea of letting MCP-like "servers" run on the client-side? I.e. in the same browser tab as ChatGPT or Claude?

    This specific example would make much more sense if it could run sandboxed client-side.

    • nilslicea year ago
      all of the servers deployed to mcp.run[0] are Wasm modules, and can run client side. they run in our cloud too, but you could use mcpx to pull them locally instead.

      you can also get the raw wasm via our API and run them anywhere you can run Extism[1], the open source wasm runtime & framework that underpins it all. (Including this hyper-mcp project!)

      [0]: https://mcp.run [1]: https://github.com/extism/extism

    • TZubiria year ago
      Sounds cool. We already have browser use though!

      You can also roll your own with selenium and c vision or selectors.

  • TZubiria year ago
    Or just use Chatgpt.