Hackernews posts about Firecracker

Firecracker is an open-source virtualization technology that allows running multiple lightweight virtual machines (VMs) on a single host machine, providing isolation and security for applications.

1. The State of MicroVM Isolation in 2026 (Firecracker, Cloud Hypervisor, Rust-Vmm) (emirb.github.io)
   7 points by emirb 6 days ago | discuss
2. Show HN: I built a self-hosted Fly.io engine using Go and Firecracker (github.com)
   5 points by sankalpnarula 7 days ago | 6 comments
3. Vmsan – Manage Firecracker microVMs from the command line (vmsan.dev)
   3 points by angelorc 28 days ago | 1 comments
4. firecracker-containerd (github.com)
   3 points by tosh 20 days ago | discuss
5. BunkerVM – Run AI agents in isolated Firecracker microVM sandboxes (github.com)
   3 points by ashishch111 24 days ago | discuss
6. Show HN: Sub-millisecond VM sandboxes using CoW memory forking (github.com)
   311 points by adammiribyan 21 days ago | 72 comments
7. Show HN: Zerobox – Sandbox any command with file, network, credential controls (github.com)
   139 points by afshinmeh 8 days ago | 92 comments
8. Sandflare – I built a sandbox that launches AI agent VMs in ~300ms
   5 points by ajaysheoran2323 7 days ago | 5 comments
9. Show HN: Docker Alternative for Secure Microvms
   4 points by sankalpnarula 4 days ago | 2 comments
10. Show HN: NumaVM – Low Friction VMs (numavm.com)
    2 points by bilalba 30 days ago | discuss
11. Spawning VMs for unreasonable workloads (2024) (blog.davidv.dev)
    1 points by tlar 11 days ago | discuss
12. Building a Firecracker-Powered Course Platform to Learn Docker and Kubernetes (iximiuz.com)
    153 points by fazkan about 1 year ago | 12 comments
13. Cloud Virtualization: Red Hat, AWS Firecracker, and Ubicloud internals (www.ubicloud.com)
    99 points by umur about 1 year ago | 14 comments
14. Firecracker: Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing (github.com)
    45 points by pykello 7 months ago | 5 comments
15. How to run Firecracker without KVM on cloud VMs (blog.alexellis.io)
    16 points by transpute about 1 year ago | 1 comments
16. Kamal: Reason behind choosing Docker instead micro VMs (like firecracker) (github.com)
    15 points by tosh over 1 year ago | 6 comments
17. Firecracker Entropy for VM Clones (github.com)
    11 points by transpute 12 months ago | discuss
18. The Future of Development: Running Firecracker MicroVMs on Your MacBook Pro M3 (u3n.medium.com)
    9 points by thenaturalist 3 months ago | 5 comments
19. Scaling firecracker: Using OverlayFS to save disk space (e2b.dev)
    8 points by mlejva about 1 year ago | discuss
20. Firecracker vs. QEMU (e2b.dev)
    7 points by jonas_scholz about 1 year ago | 3 comments
21. Show HN: AI Sandbox with Kata, Firecracker, Cloud HV (E2B, Daytona Alternative) (www.cognitora.dev)
    6 points by mikerubini 8 months ago | 4 comments
22. Show HN: Shellmates – Rent bare metal and divide into VMs with firecracker
    4 points by andrewfromx about 1 year ago | 4 comments
23. How to run Firecracker without KVM on cloud VMs (blog.alexellis.io)
    4 points by alexellisuk about 1 year ago | 1 comments
24. Show HN: LobsterHelper – Managed OpenClaw on Firecracker VMs (lobsterhelper.com)
    4 points by alex_trekkoa about 2 months ago | discuss
25. Show HN: New hypervisor for secure sandboxing (replaces Firecracker) (vieews.com)
    4 points by vieews 11 months ago | discuss
26. Ask HN: Customizations to Firecracker/Gvisor?
    4 points by ATechGuy over 1 year ago | discuss
27. Show HN: Nucleus – enforced permission envelopes for AI agents (Firecracker) (github.com)
    3 points by difc 2 months ago | 3 comments
28. Show HN: New hypervisor for secure container isolation (replaces Firecracker) (vieews.com)
    3 points by vieews over 1 year ago | 2 comments
29. Vmsan – firecracker microVMs in one command (github.com)
    3 points by angelorc about 1 month ago | 1 comments
30. FireClaw: Personal OpenClaw assistant in a single binary, built on Firecracker (github.com)
    3 points by Johnson8053 2 months ago | 1 comments
31. Show HN: I'm building an open-source AI agent runtime using Firecracker microVMs (github.com)
    3 points by markoh49 3 months ago | 1 comments
32. Seven Years of Firecracker (brooker.co.za)
    3 points by ashvardanian 6 months ago | discuss
33. Seven Years of Firecracker (brooker.co.za)
    3 points by eatonphil 7 months ago | discuss
34. The loudest mechanical keyboard features relays and firecrackers to make noise (www.tomshardware.com)
    3 points by rbanffy 11 months ago | discuss
35. Firecracker Internals (www.talhoffman.com)
    3 points by supriyo-biswas about 1 year ago | discuss
36. FreeBSD on Firecracker (2023) (www.usenix.org)
    3 points by fanf2 over 1 year ago | discuss
37. Ask HN: Customizations to Firecracker/Gvisor?
    3 points by ATechGuy over 1 year ago | discuss
38. Microarchitectural Security of AWS Firecracker VMM for Serverless Cloud (2023) (arxiv.org)
    3 points by transpute almost 2 years ago | discuss
39. Firecracker "job receipts" for metering and auditing LLM agent runs
    2 points by joshfischer1108 about 2 months ago | discuss
40. How to run Firecracker without KVM on cloud VMs (2025) (blog.alexellis.io)
    2 points by indigodaddy about 2 months ago | discuss
41. Show HN: Mvvmm – Firecracker-like mini virtual machine monitor in ~2000 LoC (github.com)
    2 points by mistivia about 2 months ago | discuss