The post inspects how mobile agent platforms run per-tenant VMs on phones: Claude Code boots a Firecracker microVM with a sealed in-guest control process and read-only harness while inference is served remotely over SSE, and Instinct rents disposable E2B KVM sandboxes running Ubuntu where the agent persists memory as a git-backed Markdown vault pushed to S3 using short-lived STS creds.
Broadcom has removed public downloads of VMware’s Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK), disrupting agentless migration and backup tools used by Microsoft Azure Migrate, Red Hat, Nutanix and others; vendors have updated guidance and customers report Broadcom support confirmed the change while alternatives and workarounds are being investigated.
Application page for Y Combinator's Early Access Network (Fall 26), inviting startups and founders to join a pre-batch program that provides early access to YC resources, mentorship, and network connections.
An interactive timelapse map that visualizes every extant building in Los Angeles County as a box that appears in the year it was built (1880–2026), showing only surviving structures and omitting demolished buildings. It effectively illustrates the county’s growth and built environment over time.