YC Spring 2026 (P26) founder

BinBin He

Founder of smol machines, Ship software faster with portable, self contained virtual machines.

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BinBin He is listed as a founder of smol machines. Smol machines solve the problem of "but app works on my machine" by shipping the machine. Smol machine enables devs to ship a lightweight virtual machine with any software, similar to how Electron ships an entire browser with the web app.

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    You can run linux on a windows* without WSL2 using smol machines.

    You can run linux on a windows* without WSL2 using smol machines. And it takes less than 35MB: https://t.co/ZTVE7qLf5Z WSL is ~250MB as a reference.

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    🤏☁️smol cloud is now live (beta) Get a virtual computer for yourself or your agent in seconds. 1. No need to configure CPU/MEM, it is ...

    🤏☁️smol cloud is now live (beta) Get a virtual computer for yourself or your agent in seconds. 1. No need to configure CPU/MEM, it is dynamically allocated up to a 4cpu/8gb upper limit today. 2. You can integrate with the smol cli to run hundreds of agents in separate cloud...

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    Got a lot of questions on how I spin up linux VM's so quickly Explanation is pretty straight forward.

    Got a lot of questions on how I spin up linux VM's so quickly Explanation is pretty straight forward. Linux was built in the 90s. Hardware improved more than a 1000x. Linux virtual machine startup times stayed relatively the same. Turns out we kept adding junk to the linux

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    in 2016, every start up was using AWS or your startup was considered not technical enough.

    in 2016, every start up was using AWS or your startup was considered not technical enough. in 2026, ~half of startups I talk to in SF weren't using AWS or any of the hyperscalers at all. Interesting trend

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    smol machines is different from other VMM's like firecracker with a focus on ease of use.

    smol machines is different from other VMM's like firecracker with a focus on ease of use. Here's an example: How do you start a VM with networking enabled? 1. smolvm: "smolvm machine run --net -it --image alpine -- /bin/sh" docs -> https://t.co/tGV3kZcdqO 2. firecracker:

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    A new release landed for smol machines with v1.5.0. 1. CUDA support, through api-remoting. This is pretty unique work because I don't th...

    A new release landed for smol machines with v1.5.0. 1. CUDA support, through api-remoting. This is pretty unique work because I don't think any existing options are doing this today. This basically enabled the local <-> remote GPU support meaning you can change and end point...

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    arch btw. on a mac. with smol machines.

    arch btw. on a mac. with smol machines.

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    there was a 60x improvement for smol machines: https://t.co/tGV3kZcdqO Embarrassingly, there's still more I'm tracking.

    there was a 60x improvement for smol machines: https://t.co/tGV3kZcdqO Embarrassingly, there's still more I'm tracking. 🙇

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