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tangle

Radically simple multiplayer / networked WebAssembly

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REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

What to know before exploring

What it is

Radically simple multiplayer / networked WebAssembly

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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Also in these discussions

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by 6-hour interval2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2023-02-17 00:18:56 UTC to 2023-02-23 08:58:25 UTC.

012023-02-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-17 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsFeb 17, 00:002023-02-17 06:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-17 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-02-17 12:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-17 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-02-17 18:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-02-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-18 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-02-18 06:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-18 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-02-18 12:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-18 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-02-18 18:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-02-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-19 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-02-19 06:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-19 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-02-19 12:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-19 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-02-19 18:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-02-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-20 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsFeb 20, 00:002023-02-20 06:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-20 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-02-20 12:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-20 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-02-20 18:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-02-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-21 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-02-21 06:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-21 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-02-21 12:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-21 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-02-21 18:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-02-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-22 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-02-22 06:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-22 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-02-22 12:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-22 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-02-22 18:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-02-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-23 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-02-23 06:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-23 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsFeb 23, 06:00

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

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Feb 17, 00:002023-02-17 00:00:00 UTC2023-02-17 06:00:00 UTC110
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Feb 17, 12:002023-02-17 12:00:00 UTC2023-02-17 18:00:00 UTC000
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Feb 23, 00:002023-02-23 00:00:00 UTC2023-02-23 06:00:00 UTC000
Feb 23, 06:002023-02-23 06:00:00 UTC2023-02-23 12:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

2 sources
whizzter·Feb 23, 2023
This seems like a mostly very well thought out design (I have a qualm about one detail but maybe they're hiding it), I've been rebuilding an old prototype of mine in a very similar way. The DoD ECS pattern should allow for easy state/log shipping to clients, with those 2 parts you can easily build what fighting games terms as "rollback" based netcode. Rollback is often characterized as complicated but clean, the truth is that if you structure your data around rollback capable simulation from day one it becomes easy (and DoD ECS naturally fits there just like shipping to separate CPU parts back on the PS3) This "trick" of fully shipping state images isn't exactly new, some emulators has done memory image shipping in the past and Ian Kettlewell published a WASM-heap shipping experiment(1) recently that works on the same principle. Compared
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to the snapshot/heap shipping of emulators/WASM is that Ambient should allow for server introspection and upgrades of state. Overall I like Ambient, and I'd recommend a look. Only big omission I see right now is audio being missing and it can be a tricky part to synchronize (due to how mixing works). 1: https://github.com/kettle11/tangle
In Ambient: The Multiplayer Game Engine

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