KERNEL
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we build crazy fast, open source infra for agents to act on the internet. trusted by @cashapp, @framer, @vercel, and 11,000+ teams.

 san francisco
kernel.sh
Joined January 2025
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everything we build is focused on giving agents the internet. safely, efficiently, at scale. this release puts us between the agent and the web, exactly where safety boundaries, runtime guardrails, and sensitive data handling belong.
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how our in-house go proxy rewrite made wakeups 92% faster

agents working in the browser can often sit idle for hours while they wait for human approval or other async outcomes. when agents come back online, they need the same cookie and session state as

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introducing hypeman: our open source sandbox infra

agentic workloads are unpredictable, bursty, and require careful isolation. a single user on KERNEL may start 2,500 browsers in a minute, with each browser running untrusted code from whichever

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building for the internet's trillionth user

by catherine jue introduction: a web built for humans i remember my first experience using the internet: it was at my childhood library. i'd use the public computers to do research for homework.

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how to make firecracker fast(er) to start chromium in < 20ms

kernel provides fast, isolated browsers for ai agents to use the web. we started out by running chromium inside firecracker microvms, which gave us pretty fast cold starts out of the box. still, “good

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lessons learned from scaling chromium on bare metal

by rafael garcia i previously was cto of clever. part of my job as cto was managing our aws bill. and in the back of my mind, i always thought: man, if there were some escape from the death grip that

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bot detection is dead, long live bot detection: reverse-engineering kasada in an afternoon

bot detection has been a central part of our industry. it’s how the internet policed itself. it decided which signups were real, which login attempts were worth a second look, which ad impressions

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