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leaningtech / webvm

webvm

Virtual Machine for the Web

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14Mentions
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17.5KGitHub stars
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Virtual Machine for the Web

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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, 1:03:20 AM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year14 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2022-02-02 02:28:20 UTC to 2025-06-29 10:01:39 UTC.

024682022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 2 submissions, 6 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC826
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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webvm has [Tailscale] sockets-over-WebSockets for networking: https://github.com/leaningtech/webvm and: > runs an unmodified Debian distribution including many native development toolchains. > WebVM is powered by the CheerpX virtualization engine, and enables safe, sandboxed client-side execution of x86 binaries on any browser. CheerpX includes an x86-to-WebAssembly JIT compiler, a virtual block-based file system, and a Linux syscall emulator. How do CheerpX and Cartesi Machine compare?
In Show HN: RISC-V Linux Terminal emulated via WASM
WebVM runs x86 binaries in WASM on any browser w/ ("[CheerpX:] an x86-to-WebAssembly JIT compiler, a virtual block-based file system, and a Linux syscall emulator") and for external sockets there's Tailscale networking. https://webvm.io/ IIUC that means an SSH (and/or MoSH Mobile Shell) client in a WASM WebVM in a browser tab could connect to a (tailscale (wg)) VPN mesh? (And JupyterLite+WebVM could ssh over an in-browser VPN mesh) You'd probably need to compile a userspace wireguard implementation with a fork of the WebVM Dockerfile, or is that redundant because tailscale already wg's the sockets?: https://github.com/leaningtech/webvm/blob/main/dockerfiles/d...
In Tinc, a GPLv2 mesh routing VPN

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