WebAssembly

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• 4Hacker News·10/8/2026open_source
  Classic PC demos run natively in the browser

  A project recompiled classic DOS demoscene productions instruction-for-instruction so they can run in the browser with WebAssembly. It emulates the original hardware timing and devices, including the timer, VGA card, and Sound Blaster, and verifies playback against the emulator event by event.

• 7Ars Technica AI·10/7/2026open_source
  AI-powered open source clones take on Adobe

  Artcraft has pivoted from an AI image and video editing tool into a suite of seven open source apps that mimic Adobe products such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Lightroom, After Effects, InDesign, and Acrobat Pro. Developer Brandon Thomas says he used Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 to build clean-room replacements in Rust, including WebAssembly versions for browsers, though the software is still in a very early alpha stage.

• 6Hacker News·10/7/2026open_source
  God of War PSP Game Recompiled to WebAssembly

  A fan project has recompiled God of War: Chains of Olympus, originally built for the PSP, to WebAssembly so it can run in a web browser. The repository and demo highlight efforts to preserve and port console software using recompilation techniques rather than traditional emulation.

• 4Hacker News·9/26/2026open_source
  Browser tool checks whether a Postgres migration is safe

  The item highlights safe-not-safe, a browser-based tool that parses PostgreSQL migrations and flags potentially unsafe changes. It uses libpg_query compiled to WebAssembly and supports checking statements such as ALTER TABLE, concurrent index creation, and foreign key validation.

• 7Hacker News·9/25/2026framework_update
  Go adds experimental portable SIMD APIs

  Go 1.26 and 1.27 introduce experimental SIMD APIs, including architecture-specific support for amd64, arm64, and wasm. The new portable simd package aims to let developers write platform-agnostic vectorized code with near-assembly performance, while also providing emulation on systems without native SIMD support.

• 5InfoQ·9/25/2026research
  Spritely Demo Highlights Decentralized Internet Infrastructure

  Christine Lemmer-Webber and David Thompson describe Spritely’s architecture for building peer-to-peer applications without central servers. They highlight capability-based access control, actor-model messaging, petname systems, and local-first CRDTs as key pieces of the design.

• 7InfoQ·9/25/2026breakthrough
  Vercel Labs Unveils scriptc, a TypeScript-to-Native Compiler

  Vercel Labs has released scriptc, an experimental compiler that turns TypeScript into small native executables without using Node.js, V8, or any JavaScript engine. It uses the TypeScript compiler for type checking and can generate C or WebAssembly, with early tests showing faster startup and lower memory use but slower execution than Node.

• 6Hacker News·9/22/2026product_launch
  FoxPro revived for modern machines with FoxDev Studio

  FoxDev Studio is presented as a modern reimplementation of Visual FoxPro that can open existing FoxPro projects, forms, tables, and libraries without migration or conversion. It aims to preserve original behavior, support 64-bit systems, and run FoxPro applications alongside a rebuilt runtime and IDE features such as debugging and design tools.

• 7InfoQ·9/15/2026framework_update
  Swift 6.4 Released

  Swift 6.4 is now available with updates aimed at improving cross-platform development, interoperability, and performance across apps, servers, embedded devices, and the browser. Key changes include Swift Build becoming the default in Swift Package Manager, Subprocess reaching 1.0, and expanded support for C++, Java, WebAssembly, and embedded targets.

• 6InfoQ·9/11/2026framework_update
  TinyGo 0.42 Adds Recoverable Panics and UEFI Support

  TinyGo 0.42 adds recoverable panics, along with support for Go 1.27 and LLVM 22, improving error handling and compatibility for embedded and Wasm use cases. The release also enables Go programs to run as UEFI applications and highlights the TinyGo Starter Kit with Seeed Studio XIAO for hardware development.

• 7Simon Willison·9/10/2026open_source
  Nix packages can now run in-browser via WebAssembly

  trynix.dev lets users boot an x86_64 Linux virtual machine in the browser through qemu-wasm and load any Nix package from the past 13 years. It also supports URL-addressable environments, enabling interactive shells and browser-based PR builds for code review without servers.

• 6Hacker News·9/9/2026open_source
  GNU Radio Runs in the Browser

  GNU Radio World brings GNU Radio Companion-style flowgraph editing and runtime execution into a browser tab. The stack compiles GNU Radio DSP and Qt GUI sinks to WebAssembly, letting users build and run SDR flowgraphs without Python, local installation, or a server, while supporting example files and WebUSB-connected radios.

• 2Simon Willison·9/7/2026product_launch
  Video compressor built with WebAssembly FFmpeg

  Simon Willison described building a small web tool to compress a phone-recorded demo video for his blog. The tool was created with Claude Code and uses the WebAssembly build of FFmpeg to perform video optimization in the browser or web app environment.

• 4Hacker News·9/6/2026open_source
  Anubis ships WebAssembly support after a year

  Anubis, a proof-of-work anti-scraping system, added WebAssembly support after a year of development. The project uses JavaScript-based challenges and Hashcash-style proof-of-work to make large-scale scraping more costly while trying to preserve access for legitimate users.

• 4Simon Willison·8/16/2026open_source
  Markdown SVG Renderer Adds MP4 Export

  Simon Willison updated his markdown-svg-renderer tool with a new MP4 export tab for animated SVGs. The browser-based feature uses ffmpeg.wasm to convert rendered animation frames into MP4 videos, making SVG animations easier to share on platforms that do not support SVG natively.

• 7Hacker News·8/12/2026product_launch
  Delta launches private beta for multiplayer coding with agents

  Delta is a new multiplayer environment for coding with agents, designed to keep code and conversation connected as work progresses. It uses DeltaDB to replicate the worktree and discussions in real time, supports Git workflows, and can sync threads to the cloud or external agent harnesses such as Claude Code.

• 7Hacker News·8/12/2026open_source
  Woxi open-sources a Rust reimplementation of the Wolfram Language

  Woxi is an open-source interpreter for the Wolfram Language written in Rust, positioned as a Mathematica-like alternative with a GUI, CLI, Jupyter kernel, Python package, npm package, and WASM support. The project emphasizes fast startup, embeddability, and compatibility testing, with tens of thousands of unit and snapshot tests to track conformance.

• 7The New Stack·8/11/2026funding
  Databricks acquires Electric to add per-agent Postgres databases

  Databricks is acquiring Electric, the company behind PGlite and the Electric sync engine, to support agentic applications that create and branch databases more frequently. Electric’s open-source projects will remain open source, but its hosted Electric Cloud service is being wound down and customers will need to self-host or switch providers.

• 8Hacker News·8/6/2026product_launch
  Cloudflare launches Kitesurf, an agent-first browser on Workers

  Cloudflare announced Kitesurf, a new browser designed specifically for AI agents and built to run entirely on Cloudflare Workers. The company says it is more efficient than Chromium for agent tasks like screenshots and HTML extraction, and is available free in beta through Browser Run.