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Hacker News - Sun, 02/08/2026 - 1:58pm

Article URL: https://sive.rs/ti

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46937332

Points: 4

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Show HN: Asterbot – AI agent built from sandboxed WASM components

Hacker News - Sun, 02/08/2026 - 1:55pm

For the past few months, I've been working on a WebAssembly (WASM) component model registry and runtime (built on wasmtime) called asterai. My goal is to help make the WASM component model mainstream, because I think it's a great way to build software. I think the ecosystem is missing a few key things and an open, central registry is one of those things.

Recently I saw how ClawHub had "341 malicious skills", and couldn't help but think how WASM/WASI resolves most of these issues by default, since everything is sandboxed.

So I've spent my weekend building Asterbot, a modular AI agent where every capability is a swappable WASM component.

Want to add web search? That's just another WASM component. Memory? another component. LLM provider? component.

The components are all sandboxed, they only have access to what you explicitly grant, e.g. a single directory like ~/.asterbot (the default). It can't read any other part of the system.

Components are written in any language (Rust, Go, Python, JS), sandboxed via WASI, and pulled from the asterai registry. Publish a component, set an env var to authorise it as a tool, and asterbot discovers and calls it automatically. Asterai provides a lightweight runtime on top of wasmtime that makes it possible to bundle components, configure env vars, and run it.

It's still a proof of concept, but I've tested all functionality in the repo and I'm happy with how it's shaping up.

Happy to answer any questions!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46937297

Points: 1

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Show HN: LM Council Let LLMs argue with each other so you don't have to

Hacker News - Sun, 02/08/2026 - 1:55pm

I built this based on Karpathy's x post from a couple months ago while I was on paternity leave. It's my first product. It's using convex, openrouter, vercel workflows to orchestrate the LLMs.

Prompt multiple LLMs at once, they blindly rank each response and synthesize a final output. Saves time switching back and forth between providers and comparing responses.

In my experience, the synthesized output tends to be more reliable than any single provider

My wife and kid think it's cool. I hope other people find it useful. paid tier lets you use openrouter bring your own key, search and file attachments.

I know this requires a sign up but I didn't know how to let people try it without some way to limit usage.

https://x.com/karpathy/status/1992381094667411768?lang=en

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46937295

Points: 1

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