machine0
Infrastructure
virtual machine hosting
SHOW HN2026
How HN took it
8 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 12 comments about the project. Thread score +0.53.
Idea: 6 for, 0 againstExecution: 2 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Great product, easy to use with Claude Code
From 1 comment
I’ve been using machine0 for hosting openclaw and a couple of web apps i’ve been working on. Great product super easy to use with claude code.
nc on HN
Nix-based reproducibility is a good fit for VMs
From 1 comment
I'm happy to see this, and I have lots of thoughts about this. Building declarative services on Nix is a far superior way of distributing Linux to VMs than most any other way…
EnigmaCurry on HN
Good explanation and useful for homelab and GPU experiments
From 2 comments
Great product, with great explanation
n3mo-dev on HNVery cool! I'll definitely check this out for auto-research like experiments, esp. with GPUs
GeoffNN on HN
Objections
NixOS learning curve is steep and docs are poor
From 2 comments
I tried out NixOS a few years ago but recently transitioned back to Rocky Linux and Ansible. I know that Nix is treasured by some but it always came across as an esoteric tool…
OhSoHumble on HNI do think the community recognizes this to be an issue and is steadily working on improving beginner-friendly docs. I am about seven years into using Nix for various things, and…
mplanchard on HN
Atomic distros with Ansible can achieve similar results
From 1 comment
I could say the same about Atomic distros and reproducible builds. Nix no longer has an exclusivity here. I find Ansible w/ Alma 10 Atomic (there's an rpm-ostree driver, cargo,…
astralkraft on HN
Requests
Support for other clouds
From 1 comment
Looks cool. Can I run on other clouds.
dmmalam on HN
Ability to share golden snapshots with a team
From 1 comment
This looks really good. NixOS is a great operating system for reproducibility. I like also that you can spin up VMs via the CLI just as a convenience part too. This looks great…
lavaman131 on HN
Proxmox support
From 1 comment
I made this (minus NixOS support, I should add that) for proxmox VE using their API a few weeks ago. I mean it's not this extensive, but it works: https://github.com/cdevr/dtt I…
cdevr on HN
Questions
How static IPs work with per-minute pricing
From 1 comment
> Every VM gets its own static IP How does this interact with per-minute pricing? If I have a machine that's on for 1 minute per month, do I retain an IPv4 address for the whole…
farfatched on HN
Whether it is available as a nixpkg
From 1 comment
Excellent idea. Is there a nixpkg available for it?
nightfuryg on HN
Alternatives named
exe.dev
From 2 comments
Big fan of exe.dev so the added Nix seems like a solid value add. exe.dev is great but lurking in my mind is: "how will I replicate this if I ever need to move to AWS etc.." for…
setheron on HN> Every VM gets its own static IP How does this interact with per-minute pricing? If I have a machine that's on for 1 minute per month, do I retain an IPv4 address for the whole…
farfatched on HN
Proxmox VE
From 1 comment
I made this (minus NixOS support, I should add that) for proxmox VE using their API a few weeks ago. I mean it's not this extensive, but it works: https://github.com/cdevr/dtt I…
cdevr on HN
Incus containers
From 1 comment
Very cool. I have something similar set up for my homelab where I launch nixos incus containers. Been great for offloading stuff from the my agents
Bnjoroge on HN