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isolated-web-apps

Repository for explainers and other documents related to the Isolated Web Apps proposal.

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What it is

Repository for explainers and other documents related to the Isolated Web Apps proposal.

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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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, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by month8 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2022-09-26 02:38:14 UTC to 2024-11-02 00:59:55 UTC.

0122022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsSep 20222022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsOct 20232023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2024-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2024-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsNov 2024

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

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Sep 20222022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC110
Oct 20222022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20222022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20222022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20232023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20232023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20232023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20232023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20232023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20232023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Aug 20232023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20232023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20232023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC110
Nov 20232023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20232023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20242024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-03-01 00:00:00 UTC110
Mar 20242024-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20242024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20242024-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20242024-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20242024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-08-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Aug 20242024-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20242024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC110
Oct 20242024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20242024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

8 sources
MzHN·Jul 18, 2024
This may eventually come to life via Isolated Web Apps https://github.com/WICG/isolated-web-apps/issues/1 or for example via webpackage https://github.com/WICG/webpackage/issues/576 The first step along the way though is making actually secure web apps possible. Aren't secure web apps already possible? Well, Signal among others thinks otherwise. See the Isolated Web Apps explainer for a full explanation https://github.com/WICG/isolated-web-apps
In Show HN: I made a privacy-friendly and free image, audio and video converter
tech234a·Jul 11, 2024
Could be cool to see an implementation using Chrome's experimental Direct Sockets API [0]. The API requires using a form of new web packaging known as Isolated Web Apps which have a strict CSP [1] though, so it might not be possible to use it for this since I'd assume it's dynamically executing a lot of code. [0]: https://github.com/WICG/direct-sockets/blob/main/docs/explai... [1]: https://github.com/WICG/isolated-web-apps/blob/main/README.m...
In WebVM is a server-less virtual Linux environment running client-side
jauntywundrkind·Jul 17, 2023
In the Solid webiverse we could all self host tools that work across any range of sites. Anything anyone wanted to share with us? We could use whatever tools we want and do trust to use that data. We could use tools we trust to surf all the web, in the Solid world. And given that we could self host these tools on static websites - since they dont rely on the host to hold data - we could all fork whatever tools we want into our own github pages accounts just fine. I can not think of a more ideal & perfect outcome. Nothing you said in any way seems to hold any muster to this theory. Will it happen like this? Probably not; only if greatness takes root & spreads. But you seem hung up on assuming the world will absolutely remain as shitty as it is now. And you seem to be using that as your ammo to dismiss/ignore/put down. You are hard hard sho
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rting this idea, and to me, that unwillingness to accept possibility, that rejecting based off of only what you are familiar with: that is a big bad. (There's also an even wider range of cross-site systems that use the many trust barrier/sandbox options we have to allow us to weave webs between points of presence, in a trustable fashion. The fediverse has just some early crude steps at this, and it doesn't yet use any filetype handling nor protocol registration capabilities; the door is open.) @ocdtrekkie: I'm rate limited again & cant reply but I don't see a single clash you've made with what I've just said. You've ignored every thesis every word I made & just doubled down on being wrong in exactly the same way. Please show the clash clearly. I've discussed at length how it allows tools to be happened in trusted places, to easily run yourself if nothing else, to statically host. There's even Web specs being proposed for isolated apps, which prevent a tool from dialing home anywhere. https://github.com/WICG/isolated-web-apps/blob/main/README.m... It's sad to see such wrong incorrect & negative persistent disbelief & pettiness used to shade such possibility. It's unclear what possibility you allude to as you crap all over other ideas. What poisonous sad disbelief.
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