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Litterbox
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Gerharddc / Litterbox

Litterbox

Somewhat Isolated Development Environments

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10Mentions
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Somewhat Isolated Development Environments

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 10:01:16 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by month10 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2025-11-27 11:44:30 UTC to 2026-08-10 10:02:45 UTC.

01232025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 2 submissions, 0 commentsNov 20252025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsMar 20262026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsAug 2026

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Nov 20252025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC220
Dec 20252025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20262026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC303
Feb 20262026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Mar 20262026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20262026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC101
May 20262026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC110
Jun 20262026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20262026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20262026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Gerharddc·Nov 28, 2025Submission

Show HN: Litterbox – Defend Against Supply Chain Attacks

Are you worried about a supply chain attack (or even a rogue AI agent perhaps) compromising your entire development system? To minimise damage in such a scenario, I've built https://litterbox.work/ (https://github.com/Gerharddc/litterbox). Litterbox leverages Podman on Linux to create reproducible and somewhat isolated development environments (these environments are isolated from each other and from your host machine). These are similar to VSCode's DevContainers but take the concept a step further by putting the editor itself inside the container too. This helps to protect against exploits inside the editor (from rogue extensions perhaps) but more importantly, it eliminates the need for editor integration (i.e. the editor needs no knowledge of or support for Litterbox). Furthermore, Litterbox comes with a specialised SSH agent for exposi
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ng SSH keys in a more secure way where each request to the agent needs to be approved in a pop-up dialog. This project is still in the very early stages with plenty of rough edges so any contributions or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
1 points · Open discussion
Gerharddc·Nov 27, 2025Submission

Show HN: Litterbox – Somewhat Isolated Development Environments

Have you ever worried about supply chain attacks (or even rogue AI agents) possibly compromising your entire development system? To minimise damage in such a scenario, I've built https://litterbox.work/ (https://github.com/Gerharddc/litterbox) as a way to have somewhat isolated Linux development environments without sacrificing too much convenience. It's still in the very early stages with plenty of rough edges so any contributions or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
2 points · Open discussion

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