Launch HN: Rivet (YC W23) – Scale and Orchestrate Agents on S3
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Hey HN, this is Nathan and Nicholas from Rivet (https://rivet.dev) – a fast, high-density, and scalable orchestrator for agentic workloads using the actor model. Rather than running a heavyweight sandbox per agent, each agent gets a lightweight actor backed by S3. Actors provide a long-lived process for long agent turns, in-memory state for context, a WebSocket server for multiplayer, durable SQLite storage backed by S3, and hibernation when idle. It's a similar model to Cloudflare Durable…
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Launch HN: Rivet (YC W23) – Scale and Orchestrate Agents on S3 was first seen on Hacker News · Front page on Nov 5, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 89 checks on 2 different days. Its best position was #17 of 30, reached on Nov 6, 08:22 UTC. It dropped off the list after Nov 6, 15:37 UTC. The same link also trended on GitHub, which raises its cross-platform score.
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| Hacker News · Front page | #17 | 2 | 89 | |
| GHGitHub · Trending Rust today rivet-dev/rivet | same link | |||
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> When you write data to an actor’s SQLite database, the write is acknowledged once SSDs in 2 of 3 availability zones have it. Then, the data is batched to S3 in the background. This means that S3 is never on the write path, which lowers latency and cost. When reading data or waking an actor, Rivet reads from SSDs if…
Distributed actors are also good platforms to run graph algorithms. We're evaluating Rivet as a potential substrate to run page rank and clustering algorithms on large graphs, while supporting cypher queries over the result. https://github.com/orgs/Latentpedia/discussions/4 Related work:…
Fascinating architecture—treating agent turns as persistent lightweight actors backed by tiered SQLite/S3 rather than spinning up dedicated VMs makes a lot of sense for latency and cost. For workflows that inevitably require arbitrary shell execution or local compiler tools (like coding agents running tests), do you…
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Is Launch HN: Rivet (YC W23) – Scale and Orchestrate Agents on S3 trending on Hacker News right now?
Not at the moment. It was last on the list on Nov 6, 15:37 UTC, after 2 days of trending.
What is the highest rank Launch HN: Rivet (YC W23) – Scale and Orchestrate Agents on S3 reached?
#17 on Hacker News · Front page, on Nov 6, 08:22 UTC. Trendoday checks this list every 15 minutes.
How long has Launch HN: Rivet (YC W23) – Scale and Orchestrate Agents on S3 been trending?
It was first seen on Nov 5, 2026 and has been on the list on 2 days (89 checks) since.
How much discussion did it get on Hacker News?
86 points and 46 comments; submitted by NathanFlurry on Nov 5, 2026.