alt Hacker NewsI'd like to point Simon and others to 2 more things possible in the browser:
1) webcontainer allows nodejs frontend and backend apps to be run in the browser. this is readily demonstrated to (now sadly unmaintained) bolt.diy project.
2) jslinux and x86 linux examples allow running of complete linux env in wasm, and 2 way communication. A thin extension adds networking support to Linux.
so technically it's theoretically possible to run a pretty full fledged agentic system with the simple UX of visiting a URL.
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curtisblaine • today at 8:56 AM
> 1) webcontainer
Isn't webcontainers.io a proprietary, non-open source solution with paid plans? Mentioning it at the same level of open source, auditable platforms seems really strange to me.
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szundi • today at 9:34 AM
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I have a very minimal v86 experiment here: https://tools.simonwillison.net/v86
My eventual goal with that is to expand it so an LLM can treat it like a filesystem and execution environment and do Claude Code style tricks with it, but it's not particularly easy to programmatically run shell commands via v86 - it seems to be designed more for presenting a Linux environment in an interactive UI in a browser.
It's likely I've not found the right way to run it yet though.