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Agoric / SES

SES

MOVED to @agoric/ses-shim. SES (Secure EcmaScript) is a secure runtime for running third-party code safely

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362GitHub stars
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What it is

MOVED to @agoric/ses-shim. SES (Secure EcmaScript) is a secure runtime for running third-party code safely

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 2:59:58 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month8 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-12-03 23:46:11 UTC to 2020-01-05 16:16:15 UTC.

0122018-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsDec 20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsJun 20192019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 commentsJan 2020

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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Dec 20182018-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Jan 20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20192019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20192019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20192019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20192019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20192019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20192019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Aug 20192019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Sep 20192019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20192019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC110
Nov 20192019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20192019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-02-01 00:00:00 UTC211

What Hacker News says

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Thanks. The "with(proxy)" part specifically would be mine. The old Google Caja, from the EcmaScript-5 days preceding Proxies, did something similar: https://github.com/google/caja/blob/master/src/com/google/ca... The full new pattern, combining "with(proxy)" with a clever use of direct "eval", is from Caridy Patino of Salesforce. The modern Realms Shim https://github.com/Agoric/realms-shim , and the SES Shim which builds on it https://github.com/Agoric/SES , is a collaboration of Agoric and Salesforce, especially JF Paradis of Salesforce. We have come to refer to the fragment of code with the "with(proxy)" and the direct "eval" as the "Eight magic lines of code" and "The heart of the shim". It is explained at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Snbss_tawI&list=PLKr-mvz8uv... and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSNxsn0pK74&list=PLKr-mvz8uv..
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In How to build a plugin system on the web and also sleep well at night
(Author here) There is material on the internet that are relevant to the topic, but it's quite hard to piece together. After all, there are only a handful of players right now who need to build an API that isn't a REST API. Among big names, I can think of Zendesk (uses iframes), Coda (runs third-party code on their servers IIRC, isolated via server mechanisms), Salesforce (not sure exactly what they do, but I think they also use Realms as a component to their system). https://medium.com/zendesk-engineering/sandboxing-javascript... https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/content/learn/modules/le... There's a couple of academic papers on JavaScript isolation, but you'll have to do a lot of work to figure out how relevant they are. Be sure to check the publication date. The folks at Agoric are probably the leading experts actively working on unt
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rusted code isolation in a browser environment right now. I would follow them if you want to hear about the latest new tech: https://github.com/Agoric/SES
In How to build a plugin system on the web and also sleep well at night

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