To be honest a bit true, I use exe.dev and it prefers to use ssh or or just directly within the browser itself and that certainly helps with the trust (also exe.dev is awesome, +1 to it using since day 1)
Also the repository itself doesn't exist anymore as it shows me a 404, I haven't run any code or anything but it would definitely be nice if keepamovin talks more about it as the idea itself is nice but yeah.
Thanks, I know exactly something which has been in my mind to build which can be made possible with this.
Basically any golang/any language cli application preferably-static can be dropped and ran in ghostbox plus xterm in browser (and additionally cloudflare tunnels) or perhaps directly to give a web link.
Anyone can then click on that web link to then try out the cli application. Think jujutsu and others too and they can do this upto 90 minutes.
Feel free to pick up on this idea as more importantly than not, I would personally love to see an idea like this, even something with asciinema to finally show how an app feels and looks.
Can you please tell me more about what is the structure behind Ghostbox and on what service does it run upon? Hetzner/OVH or something else? I would be interested to know more about the infrastructural decisions behind it and does it run on firecrackers, quite so many questions!
This is a really cool project, thanks for making this and have a nice day!
Thanks, bud. Right now it just uses spins up an ephemeral machine from GitHub Actions. I mostly used GH myself so have not added any more providers yet - but the Global Free Tier is trending up. Will add more in future.
(ran this on arena.ai direct chat and also tried to write this gist inspired by how simon writes his gists about pelicans)
Edit: just realized that I made pelican riding a bike instead of bicycle, which now makes sense as to why it hardened the bicycle to look tankier, going to compare this with pelican riding a bicycle if anybody else shares the pelican riding a bicycle.
Personal opinion but the beaver one looks especially bad as compared to pelicans. Can we be for sure that this model of grok-4.3 hasn't been trained on pelican. Simonw in blog-post says that he will try with other creatures so I hope he does that but it does feel to me as the model/xAI is trying to cheat, Hope Simonw tests it out more.
Edit: Also added turtle riding a scooter, something which literally has images online or heck even teenage mutant ninja turtles and I thought that it would be able to pass this but it wasn't even able to generate this: https://gist.github.com/SerJaimeLannister/f6de26bd0d0817e056...
This literally looks more avocado than turtle. Perhaps this could be a bug from arena.ai or something else too, not sure but at this point waiting for simon's analysis.
I sort of agree with you but for me, I prefer golang because I believe that for most use cases, Golang fits perfectly (I run a 500mb 7$/yr vps with debian and use golang binaries)
Cross portability and compilation and its very few dependency/stdlib approach with simplicity, I just really love golang.
I had built[0] a cuckoo.org alternative at https://fossbox.cloud which has only one dependency of gorilla web sockets aside from stdlib
If I were to rewrite it in rust, I couldn't say the same. Golang's stdlib is that good.
My point is, although I understand Rust can have some advantages in other areas, the advantages of golang outweigh rust for me by a very high margin. There is also the factor that I just feel more comfortable reading golang code and picking through it than rust.
It is my opinion that you can go a very very long way with a garbage collector than people imagine even on constrained systems. Unless absolutely necessary, thinking about GC feels like it might be a premature optimization in many instances which is worth thinking about.
[0]: More like (vibecoded?) as this is just a single file main.go which I had prompted on gemini 3.1 pro sometime ago. It was just a prototype which works surprisingly well that I had made because I was using the cuckoo website with friends but it kept on lagging.
Well I almost have the same story, my agent harness is a 5mb rust binary that runs as systemd service and occupy 10mb of memory after days. This handles all communciations between 100+ agents.
Now I think go will come close to this number, so in reality, there might not be a real difference. But a leak somewhere is far more likely especially as these are mostly vibe coded (my binary has multiple functionality).
The biggest advantage that go have over rust is the stdlib and ecosystem that doesn't depend on 100 packages. And maybe that will be the deciding factor in the future or someone (I'm getting increasingly itchy for it) will need to reinvent the ecosystem to be less like npm.
(Archive.is doesn't work for economist.com, so what I did was log in with a free account, use single page and then uploaded it to archive.org using Htmlpipe which is an open source project I have made)
Hope this helps, Now I am going back to reading the article as I haven't read it.
I wish if more SSG could be made digital public goods as well like hugo, eleventty[0] etc. A lot of such products can really benefit from the funding and in some sense, yes one can use these static site generators eternally and use the same version but I do feel like these tools still fall in a digital public good category.
From my understanding of digital public good, the process seems to have benefits of UN and other nations contributing but the process seems immensely bureaucratic so I hope that UN could cut down on its bureaucracy hopefully just a bit too.
Also the repository itself doesn't exist anymore as it shows me a 404, I haven't run any code or anything but it would definitely be nice if keepamovin talks more about it as the idea itself is nice but yeah.
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