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Self-hosted K8s operator that proves your AI agents never phoned home (open source)
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Self-hosted K8s operator that proves your AI agents never phoned home (open source)

Been running AI agents on my own cluster and kept hitting the same problem: once a run finishes, how do you actually prove, later, that the agent stayed inside the network boundary you set? Logs can be tampered with, and most agent frameworks just trust you configured things right.

Built a small operator that applies default-deny egress per agent workload, seals the run at the network boundary, and emits a signed, hash-chained attestation artifact you can verify offline, even months later, even air-gapped. Apache 2.0 core, gVisor isolation, kagent-compatible if you already run that.

Repo: github.com/Clawdlinux/agentic-operator-core

Curious if this is a real problem for anyone else running agents at home or on-prem, or if I'm solving something nobody else worries about.

u/Useful_Journalist — 2 days ago
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How do you guys optimize your time?

I am struggling to keep up with work, school, raising and 2 year old, and keeping up with my startup cofounders. I don’t want to do less work than them even though they are understanding of my situation.

Please share ways you have optimized your schedule to allow ample time for everything.

I already only sleep 7 hours and use caffeine so there’s no room for improvement there lol

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u/BidnessmanD — 5 days ago
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Is building CRUD projects really the best way to get hired anymore?

We've all heard the same advice:

"Build more projects."

But does another Todo app, Netflix clone, or E-commerce website really help you stand out anymore?

My friend and I don't think so.

That's why we've been building Forke—an open-source platform where developers can gain real-world experience by completing actual startup tasks instead of building projects nobody uses.

The platform isn't fully live yet, but our website is!

If you have 5–10 minutes, we'd love your honest feedback on:

• The landing page

• The "What's Forke?" page

• Developer Levels

• Blogs

• Overall UI/UX

• Whether this is something you'd actually use

We're building this in public, so don't hold back. We'd genuinely appreciate constructive criticism.

🌐 https://www.forke.space/?source=reddit

⭐ https://github.com/forke-org

u/Sudhanshub27 — 8 days ago
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Built APIs for Aussie StartUps , trade contractor rates and PBS drug pricing (plus rental and subscription data)

Been working on this for a while and finally feel like it’s worth sharing.
If you’ve ever tried to get structured, up-to-date Australian data into an app rental prices, drug costs, trade pricing, you know how painful it is. Either you’re scraping PDFs, wrestling with government portals, or paying for enterprise data contracts you can’t afford as a small team.
So I built an API that covers four datasets I kept needing myself:
• Rental prices : median weekly rent by suburb, postcode, and bedroom count across Australia (quarterly data going back to 2000)
• PBS drug pricing: 14,000+ medications with patient copayment costs (what you actually pay at the chemist, not just the benefit price)
• Trade/contractor pricing : what plumbers, electricians, etc. charge across different states
• Subscription pricing: SaaS and streaming prices across AU, US, UK for comparison tools
Single API key, consistent response format across all four. Also ships with an MCP server so you can wire it straight into an AI agent without writing API calls.
Mostly aimed at fintech apps, healthtech, real estate tools, and anyone building something that needs this kind of reference data without standing up their own scraper.
Free tier available — you can register and start hitting endpoints in under a minute.
Docs + free key: https://api.aristocles.com.au/docs
More info: https://aristocles.com.au
Happy to answer questions about the data sources or coverage gaps.

Questions or want to talk enterprise access?
https://aristocles.com.au/contact

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u/Fit_Mango7142 — 11 days ago
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Need for New Identity layer.LinkedIn feels less like identity and more like a feed now. I wanted something simpler.

I  have been thinking a lot about online identity lately.

For most people, LinkedIn has become the default “professional identity” on the internet. But honestly, it kind of sucks for that now. It feels noisy, performative, and optimized more for engagement than for representing who someone actually is.

If I meet someone online and want to quickly understand what they do, what they have built, where they write, what projects they are part of, or how to contact them, there still is not one clean universal identity layer.

Everyone has fragments everywhere:

GitHub for code
Twitter/X for thoughts
LinkedIn for work history
Personal website if they have one
Resume PDF somewhere
Calendly, email, socials, projects, links, all scattered around

So I started building app.endpointme.world as a small experiment around this idea.The thought is simple: what if your online identity had one endpoint?

A page that is not trying to be another social network, not another feed, and not another place to farm attention. Just a structured, public identity layer that you control.

Some things I have been working on:

  • A clean public Api endpoint with all your info
  • Snapshots, so your profile can have versioned states over time (for controlling Identity fraud)
  • Webhooks and subscribe flows, so people or systems can react when your profile changes
  • Integrations with places like GitHub , npm and all.
  • Identity layer for the person with face verification and Any one can request to verify if you're real

I am still figuring out the exact direction, but the bigger idea is that identity on the internet should be more portable and less tied to platforms that own the graph, the audience, and the presentation. It can lead to connecting/ finding/hiring people without scrolling . They can just use api for that instead of scraping.

Curious if others feel this problem too.

Do you still use LinkedIn as your main professional identity, or do you feel like we need something more open and personal?

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u/Difficult-Goal4470 — 10 days ago