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firecracker
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Show HN: Add AI code interpreter to any LLM via SDK
Hi, I'm the CEO of the company that built this SDK.
We're a company called E2B [0]. We're building and open-source [1] secure environments for running untrusted AI-generated code and AI agents. We call these environments sandboxes and they are built on top of micro VM called Firecracker [2].
You can think of us as giving small cloud computers to LLMs.
We recently created a dedicated SDK for building custom code interpreters in Python or JS/TS. We saw this need after a lot of our users have been adding code execution capabilities to their AI apps with our core SDK [3]. These use cases were often centered around AI data analysis so code interpreter-like behavior made sense
The way our code interpret SDK works is by spawning an E2B sandbox with Jupyter Server. We then communicate with this Jupyter server through Jupyter Kernel messaging protocol [4].
We don't do any wrapping around LLM, any prompting, or any agent-like framework. We leave all of that on users. We're really just a boring code execution layer that sats at the bottom that we're building specifically for the future software that will be building another software. We work with any LLM. Here's how we added code interpreter to Claude [5].
Our long-term plan is to build an automated AWS for AI apps and agents.
Happy to answer any questions and hear feedback!
[0] https://e2b.dev/
[1] https://github.com/e2b-dev
[2] https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker
[3] https://e2b.dev/docs
[4] https://jupyter-client.readthedocs.io/en/latest/messaging.ht...
[5] https://github.com/e2b-dev/e2b-cookbook/blob/main/examples/c...
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Fly.it Has GPUs Now
As far as I know, Fly uses Firecracker for their VMs. I've been following Firecracker for a while now (even using it in a project), and they don't support GPUs out of the box (and have no plan to support it [1]).
I'm curious to know how Fly figured their own GPU support with Firecracker. In the past they had some very detailed technical posts on how they achieved certain things, so I'm hoping we'll see one on their GPU support in the future!
[1]: https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/issues/11...
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MotorOS: a Rust-first operating system for x64 VMs
I pass through a GPU and USB hub to a VM running on a machine in the garage. An optical video cable and network compatible USB extender brings the interface to a different room making it my primary “desktop” computer (and an outdated laptop as a backup device). Doesn’t get more silent and cool than this. Another VM on the garage machine gets a bunch of hard drives passed through to it.
That said, hardware passthrough/VFIO is likely out of the current realistic scope for this project. VM boot times can be optimized if you never look for hardware to initialize in the first place. Though they are still likely initializing a network interface of some sort.
“MicroVM” seems to be a term used when as much as possible is stripped from a VM, such as with https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker
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Virtual Machine as a Core Android Primitive
According to their own FAQ it is indeed: https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/blob/main...
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Sandboxing a .NET Script
What about microVMs like firecracker?
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We Replaced Firecracker with QEMU
Dynamic memory management - Firecracker's RAM footprint starts low, but once a workload inside allocates RAM, Firecracker will never return it to the host system. After running several workloads inside, you end up with an idling VM that consumes 32 GB of RAM on the host, even though it doesn't need any of it.
Firecracker has a balloon device you can inflate (ie: acquire as much memory inside the VM as possible) and then deflate... returning the memory to the host.
https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/blob/main...
- I'm looking for a virtual machine that prioritizes privacy and does not include tracking or telemetry.
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Neverflow: Set of C macros that guard against buffer overflows
Very few things in those companies are being written in Rust, and half of those projects chose Rust around ideological reasons rather than technical, with plenty of 'unsafe' thrown in for performance reasons
https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/search?q=...
The fact that 'unsafe' even exists in Rust means it's no better than C with some macros.
Don't get me wrong, Rust has it's place, like all the other languages that came about for various reasons, but it's not going to gain wide adoption.
Future of programming consists of 2 languages - something like C that has a small instruction set for adopting to new hardware, and something that is very high level, higher than Python with LLM in the background. Everything in the middle is fodder.
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Do you use Rust in your professional career?
https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker is the one that comes to mind, but most of these are internal.
- Making save states for any program?
tfjs
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JavaScript Libraries for Implementing Trendy Technologies in Web Apps in 2024
TensorFlow.js
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Deep Learning in JavaScript
Many people seem to be unaware of tensorflow.js, an official JS implementation of TF
https://github.com/tensorflow/tfjs
I'd love to see PyTorch in JS, but I think unless you get it running on the GPU it won't be able to do much.
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Machine Learning in NodeJS || Part 1: TensorflowJS Basics
TensorflowJS GitHub Repository
- PyTorch Primitives in WebGPU for the Browser
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I want to talk about WebGPU
Also, Tensorflow.js WebGPU backend has been in the works for quite some time: https://github.com/tensorflow/tfjs/tree/master/tfjs-backend-...
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WebGPU Fundamentals
It's a pity that tfjs never truly developed any decent ops. E.g. you need lgamma to implement the cap for zero-inflated poisson regression and tfjs simply doesn't have that: https://github.com/tensorflow/tfjs/issues/2011
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Chrome Ships WebGPU
People have been doing it for long with WebGL, see eg https://github.com/tensorflow/tfjs and https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2021/09/02/onnx-...
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How to get rotation (yaw/pitch/roll) from face detection keypoints?
thanks, no not unity, going to show it as a demo with threejs + tensorflow on the web. I found a github request to add face orientation https://github.com/tensorflow/tfjs/issues/3835 looks like they assigned someone to add it but doesn't look like its available yet, but there's some posts about the math I can use to get rotations based on some of the landmarks
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[P] Supporting neural network inference in web browsers
There already exist a wide variety of neural network inference engines that run in web browsers (e.g. TensorFlow.js and, my personal favorite for use with PyTorch models, ONNX Runtime Web), but pre- and post-processing has always required imperative manipulations on flat buffers rather than a clean ndarray interface.
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Tensorflow JS model crashing on mobile
Full docs and code: https://github.com/tensorflow/tfjs/tree/master/e2e/benchmarks/local-benchmark
What are some alternatives?
cloud-hypervisor - A Virtual Machine Monitor for modern Cloud workloads. Features include CPU, memory and device hotplug, support for running Windows and Linux guests, device offload with vhost-user and a minimal compact footprint. Written in Rust with a strong focus on security.
face-api.js - JavaScript API for face detection and face recognition in the browser and nodejs with tensorflow.js
bottlerocket - An operating system designed for hosting containers
webhl - WebHL is a fork of hlviewer.js that uses the File System Access API to load game assets direct from your computer rather than from a server.
gvisor - Application Kernel for Containers
lightweight-human-pose-estimation.pytorch - Fast and accurate human pose estimation in PyTorch. Contains implementation of "Real-time 2D Multi-Person Pose Estimation on CPU: Lightweight OpenPose" paper.
libkrun - A dynamic library providing Virtualization-based process isolation capabilities
BlazePose-tensorflow - A third-party Tensorflow Implementation for paper "BlazePose: On-device Real-time Body Pose tracking".
krunvm - Create microVMs from OCI images
openpose - OpenPose: Real-time multi-person keypoint detection library for body, face, hands, and foot estimation
deno - A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript.
hyperformula - HyperFormula is an open-source headless spreadsheet for business web apps. It comes with over 400 formulas, CRUD operations, undo-redo, clipboard support, and sorting. Built in TypeScript, supported by the Handsontable Team.