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  • NixOS 25.11 was EOL a month and a half ago. Where's NixOS 26.05?
    by kam
  • Does this internally use AWS or is this your own self-hosted environment?
    by rvz
  • This looks useful. The per-minute billing on persistent VMs solves a real gap between serverless and reserved instances.

    One question on the agent fleet pattern you described: when a pilot agent delegates to dozens of sub-agents across separate VMs, how do you track what the whole job actually cost? The VM minutes are visible, but the API calls each agent makes to OpenAI, Anthropic, Serper, Firecrawl, those are spread across processes and vendors.

    We ran into this running our own agent fleets. Token counts only come back with the response, so per-key limits and vendor dashboards always arrive too late. focxle sits inside each agent process, attributes every call to a named agent, and prints a consolidated report showing per-agent and per-vendor spend plus the projected monthly at the current rate. That projected number is the one that gets budget attention.

    Free to observe, no account, no card, two lines:

    ```python pip install focxle

    import focxle focxle.init()

    by focxle
  • Basic question:

    What are you doing here that my agent couldn't do with: AWS, GCP, Hetzner, DigitialOcean?

    Quick read is this is some simple api abstraction? or you're even brokering that compute? Which i would want, why?

    by prodtorok
  • > People run a pilot agent that scopes work and delegates it to sub-agents, each on its own VM: shape a project with the pilot, and the workers implement it and open PRs. One customer runs hundreds of machines at once, spun up and torn down from the CLI.

    Are people spawning VMs for every tool call? If so, would love to understand why so, and why containers are not a good fit?

    by atechboy
  • >machine0 provides on-demand cloud virtual machines accessible via a command-line interface and web dashboard. VMs run on DigitalOcean infrastructure.

    Well, given DigitalOceans already inflated prices, this certainly won't be cheap.

    by sparkling
  • When you say suspendible, do you mean that I could make a VM, configure it by installing packages and libraries, then pause it?

    And resume it later with the full disk ready to go? No billing during the inbetween time?

    That’d be huge, but seems wild. How can you economically keep the storage between active sessions?

    by averylostnomad
  • Does snapshot/suspend/resume keep processes/RAM alive - or do you need to re-start processes/reload stuff into RAM? How does that work under the hood (CRIU?) and how fast is it?
    by zodiac

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