Hackernews posts about WebAssembly

WebAssembly is a binary instruction format that allows developers to compile code written in languages like C and C++ into a form that can be run directly in web browsers without the need for an interpreter or runtime environment.

1. Pokemon Emerald Ported to WebAssembly (100k FPS) (pokeemerald.com)
   363 points by tripplyons 26 days ago | 103 comments
2. Pyodide 314.0: Python packages can now publish WebAssembly wheels to PyPI (blog.pyodide.org)
   175 points by agriyakhetarpal 23 days ago | 36 comments
3. A complete ClickHouse OLAP engine, compiled to WebAssembly (wasm.chdb.io)
   62 points by porridgeraisin about 22 hours ago | 14 comments
4. Fable 5 Ported the Ladybird Browser to WebAssembly in One Shot and It Cost $552 (twitter.com)
   26 points by ent101 21 days ago | 10 comments
5. Wasi: WebGPU – A Proposed WebAssembly System Interface API (github.com)
   23 points by giancarlostoro 20 days ago | 3 comments
6. WebAssembly 3.0 (webassembly.github.io)
   20 points by tosh 22 days ago | 1 comments
7. Endive 1.0: WebAssembly on the JVM, Now a Bytecode Alliance Project (endive.run)
   17 points by dustingetz 6 days ago | 1 comments
8. Performance of WebAssembly Runtimes in 2026 (00f.net)
   8 points by jedisct1 9 days ago | discuss
9. Apple Lisa Emulator in Rust/WebAssembly (old.reddit.com)
   4 points by adam_jesion 19 days ago | discuss
10. Show HN: ChDB-WASM – ClickHouse running in the browser via WebAssembly (wasm.chdb.io)
    3 points by auxten 1 day ago | discuss
11. Performance of WebAssembly Runtimes in 2026 (00f.net)
    3 points by theanonymousone 8 days ago | discuss
12. AkiraOS: Embedded OS that runs WebAssembly applications on microcontrollers (github.com)
    3 points by sohkamyung 24 days ago | discuss
13. Lunatic: An Erlang-inspired runtime for WebAssembly (lunatic.solutions)
    2 points by giancarlostoro 14 minutes ago | discuss
14. chDB-WASM: complete ClickHouse OLAP engine, compiled to WebAssembly (twitter.com)
    2 points by tosh 1 day ago | discuss
15. Elasto Mania Ported to WebAssembly (joshumax.github.io)
    2 points by joshumax 7 days ago | discuss
16. WebAssembly Language Tools v0.11.0 is released (github.com)
    1 points by gplane 22 days ago | discuss
17. Show HN: Squish – client-side video compression with WebAssembly (www.usesquish.me)
    1 points by toolmaker_01 23 days ago | discuss
18. WASI 0.3 (bytecodealliance.org)
    260 points by mavdol04 20 days ago | 98 comments
19. Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD (github.com)
    215 points by zachdive 15 days ago | 97 comments
20. Show HN: Talos – Open-source WASM interpreter for Lean (github.com)
    106 points by mfornet 14 days ago | 28 comments
21. Show HN: FFmpeg WebCLI – Full FFmpeg in Browser, Offline PWA, No Uploads(WASM) (github.com)
    86 points by tejaswigowda 28 days ago | 43 comments
22. Show HN: Numax - a portable runtime for distributed apps (github.com)
    6 points by gianiac 16 days ago | 1 comments
23. Show HN: Ziex, a Zig web framework reaching its first release
    5 points by nurulhudaapon 10 days ago | 1 comments
24. Show HN: Quake in the browser, with procedurally generated levels (leereilly.net)
    5 points by lee337 10 days ago | discuss
25. Show HN: Jumpjet – a WASM runtime for game developers (jumpjet.dev)
    4 points by lwansbrough 13 days ago | discuss
26. Show HN: Web-Based FPGA Viewer (edacation.github.io)
    3 points by malmeloo 12 days ago | discuss
27. Show HN: BitVanes – A zero-trust RAG pipeline engine in Rust, WASM, and Arrow (www.bitvanes.com)
    2 points by kodr_pro 9 days ago | discuss
28. Performance of WASM Runtimes in 2026 (00f.net)
    4 points by fanf2 8 days ago | discuss
29. Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web (hacks.mozilla.org)
    664 points by mikece 4 months ago | 271 comments
30. Sqlite3 WebAssembly (sqlite.org)
    647 points by whatever3 over 1 year ago | 192 comments
31. Python on the Edge: Fast, sandboxed, and powered by WebAssembly (wasmer.io)
    399 points by baalimago 9 months ago | 158 comments
32. What happened to WebAssembly (emnudge.dev)
    350 points by enz 6 months ago | 320 comments
33. Show HN: Porting Terraria and Celeste to WebAssembly (velzie.rip)
    338 points by coolelectronics about 1 year ago | 48 comments
34. I Wrote a WebAssembly VM in C (irreducible.io)
    331 points by irreducible over 1 year ago | 96 comments
35. Show HN: HipScript – Run CUDA in the browser with WebAssembly and WebGPU (hipscript.lights0123.com)
    309 points by lights0123 over 1 year ago | 32 comments
36. WebAssembly (WASM) arch support for the Linux kernel (github.com)
    299 points by marcodiego 8 months ago | 65 comments
37. WebAssembly from the Ground Up (wasmgroundup.com)
    258 points by gurjeet 8 months ago | 56 comments
38. We replaced our React front end with Go and WebAssembly (dagger.io)
    250 points by miranda_carter over 1 year ago | 232 comments
39. A WebAssembly compiler that fits in a tweet (wasmgroundup.com)
    244 points by todsacerdoti over 1 year ago | 29 comments
40. Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly (www.spritely.institute)
    235 points by AlexeyBrin 5 months ago | 47 comments
41. Show HN: Execute JavaScript in a WebAssembly QuickJS sandbox (github.com)
    206 points by sebastianwessel almost 2 years ago | 65 comments
42. Go on Embedded Systems and WebAssembly (tinygo.org)
    206 points by uticus 3 months ago | 40 comments
43. A Vision for WebAssembly Support in Swift (forums.swift.org)
    202 points by LucidLynx about 1 year ago | 101 comments
44. Chicory: A JVM native WebAssembly runtime (chicory.dev)
    201 points by 0x54MUR41 over 1 year ago | 95 comments
45. Pyodide: a Python distribution based on WebAssembly (github.com)
    189 points by tosh 4 months ago | 56 comments
46. When Is WebAssembly Going to Get DOM Support? (queue.acm.org)
    186 points by jazzypants 11 months ago | 208 comments
47. Nova: A JavaScript and WebAssembly engine written in Rust (trynova.dev)
    181 points by AbuAssar about 1 year ago | 66 comments
48. Show HN: Compiling C in the browser using WebAssembly (wasmer.io)
    174 points by syrusakbary over 1 year ago | 71 comments
49. Edge.js: Run Node apps inside a WebAssembly sandbox (wasmer.io)
    173 points by syrusakbary 4 months ago | 45 comments
50. The WebRacket language is a subset of Racket that compiles to WebAssembly (github.com)
    157 points by mfru 6 months ago | 38 comments
51. Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024: WebAssembly SDK (docs.flightsimulator.com)
    152 points by breve 11 months ago | 115 comments
52. WASM-4: Build retro games using WebAssembly for a fantasy console (wasm4.org)
    151 points by peutetre over 1 year ago | 40 comments
53. A web-based RDP client built with Go WebAssembly and grdp (github.com)
    145 points by mariuz 2 months ago | 49 comments
54. Web Assembly audio decoders highly optimized for size and performance (github.com)
    145 points by ctoth over 1 year ago | 27 comments
55. Dynamic translation of Smalltalk to WebAssembly (thiscontext.com)
    145 points by lioeters almost 2 years ago | 23 comments
56. Orca: WebAssembly Apps Without the Web (orca-app.dev)
    138 points by todsacerdoti almost 2 years ago | 90 comments
57. Rebuilding Prime Video UI with Rust and WebAssembly (www.infoq.com)
    136 points by 8s2ngy about 1 year ago | 44 comments
58. Mounting tar archives as a filesystem in WebAssembly (jeroen.github.io)
    130 points by datajeroen 2 months ago | 40 comments