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A Windows Kernel in a Browser Tab, Part I: Cold Boot, Fast Boot, and Four Megabytes

Lobsters Hottest · 2026-07-03 Cached

The article describes nanokrnl, a 64-bit Windows kernel written in Rust, and nanox, a 65KB WebAssembly emulator that boots it directly in long mode in a browser, achieving a running OS in about four megabytes.

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LibreCAD in the Browser

Hacker News Top · 2026-07-02 Cached

A developer ports the open-source 2D CAD application LibreCAD to run in the browser using WebAssembly and Qt's WebAssembly support, leveraging a large language model for assistance.

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A complete ClickHouse OLAP engine, compiled to WebAssembly

Hacker News Top · 2026-07-01 Cached

chDB is a complete ClickHouse OLAP engine compiled to WebAssembly, enabling SQL queries directly in the browser via a SQL shell at wasm.chdb.io.

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I ported Kubernetes to the browser

Hacker News Top · 2026-06-30 Cached

Sam Rose from ngrok demonstrates how they ported Kubernetes to run entirely in the browser using WebAssembly, allowing developers to simulate a local cluster without needing a remote server or complex setup.

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@LangChain: Giving agents the ability to write code makes them dramatically more capable. It also makes security a lot harder. At L…

X AI KOLs Following · 2026-06-30 Cached

LangChain's Deep Agents allow untrusted agent-written code to run securely using WebAssembly-based code interpreters, providing execution and capability isolation without a traditional sandbox.

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WATaBoy: JIT-ing Game Boy Instructions to Wasm Beats a Native Interpreter

Lobsters Hottest · 2026-06-29 Cached

The article describes WATaBoy, a Game Boy emulator that uses just-in-time compilation to WebAssembly to achieve performance exceeding that of a native interpreter, serving as a proof-of-concept for JIT-to-Wasm in emulation.

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@CycleDecoded: Apple's vaunted App Store "moat" has been directly "breached" by the open-source community in an extremely hardcore way. Previously, to install apps on iOS outside the store, you either had to endure the pain of signing certificates expiring at any time, or rely on extremely rare system vulnerabilities. But the recently explosive open-source project AssppWe...

X AI KOLs Timeline · 2026-06-26 Cached

AssppWeb is an open-source project that uses WebAssembly to simulate Apple ID authentication in a browser, allowing users to bypass the App Store and install genuine applications directly on iOS devices, employing a zero-trust architecture to protect credential security.

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@tom_doerr: Installs iOS apps directly to devices without the App Store https://github.com/Lakr233/AssppWeb…

X AI KOLs Timeline · 2026-06-25 Cached

AssppWeb is an open-source web-based tool that allows installing iOS apps directly to devices without the App Store, using a zero-trust architecture where credentials are handled client-side via WebAssembly.

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Half-Life 2 in a Browser

Hacker News Top · 2026-06-25 Cached

Half-Life 2 has been ported to run directly in a web browser via WebAssembly, allowing play without installation.

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LaTeX.wasm: LaTeX Engines in Browsers

Hacker News Top · 2026-06-23 Cached

SwiftLaTeX enables LaTeX compilation directly in the browser using WebAssembly, allowing users to create and edit LaTeX documents without a server-side LaTeX installation.

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OPFS + Pyodide test harness

Simon Willison's Blog · 2026-06-23 Cached

A test harness for experimenting with the Origin Private File System (OPFS) in browsers using Pyodide, built to explore persistent SQLite storage for Datasette Lite.

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Show HN: peerd – AI agent harness that runs entirely in your browser

Hacker News Top · 2026-06-23 Cached

peerd is an open-source browser extension that serves as an AI agent harness, enabling agents to run entirely within the browser without a backend, using WebAssembly for sandboxed compute and WebRTC for peer-to-peer agent communication.

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Performance of WebAssembly runtimes in 2026

Lobsters Hottest · 2026-06-23 Cached

This article benchmarks the performance of various WebAssembly runtimes (WAVM, WasmEdge, WAMR, wasm2c, Wasmer, Wasmtime, Wazero, Node, Bun) using the libsodium crypto library, comparing versions from 2024, 2025, and 2026. Results show that WAVM, WasmEdge (with AOT), WAMR (AOT), wasm2c, Wasmer, and Wasmtime achieve near-native performance for CPU-bound crypto, while wide_arithmetic instructions benefit crypto code.

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What are you doing this weekend?

Lobsters Hottest · 2026-06-19 Cached

A developer shares their weekend project of building a low-level infix language that compiles to WebAssembly, and offers a personal ranking of AI coding tools from contextual autocomplete to frontier models.

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@Modular: Two paths feed the game's fields. One precomputes the fields with SIMD. The other compiles a Mojo kernel to WebAssembly…

X AI KOLs Following · 2026-06-15

Modular demonstrates two approaches for computing game fields: using SIMD precomputation or compiling a Mojo kernel to WebAssembly for live browser rendering.

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Publishing WASM wheels to PyPI for use with Pyodide

Simon Willison's Blog · 2026-06-13 Cached

PyPI now supports publishing WebAssembly wheels for Pyodide, allowing package maintainers to distribute their own WASM packages directly. The article demonstrates this with the luau-wasm package.

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luau-wasm 0.1a0

Simon Willison's Blog · 2026-06-13 Cached

luau-wasm 0.1a0, a WebAssembly build of the Luau scripting language, has been released.

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WASI 0.3 Launched

Lobsters Hottest · 2026-06-12 Cached

The article announces the launch of WASI 0.3, which integrates async primitives natively into WebAssembly components via the Component Model, simplifying APIs and enabling better component composition.

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WASI 0.3.0 Released

Hacker News Top · 2026-06-12 Cached

WASI 0.3.0 (Preview 3) has been released, replacing earlier explicit streams and polling interfaces with native async functionality via the component model's future and stream types.

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Pyodide 314.0: Python packages can now publish WebAssembly wheels to PyPI

Hacker News Top · 2026-06-09 Cached

Pyodide 314.0 release marks a milestone with the acceptance of PEP 783, enabling Python packages to publish WebAssembly wheels directly to PyPI, reducing maintainer burden and simplifying distribution for the Python-in-the-browser ecosystem.

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