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Gemma 4 in the browser with WebGPU

astlouis44 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:46:00 +0000

Article URL: https://huggingface.co/spaces/webml-community/gemma-4-webgpu-kernels

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48764073

Points: 5

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New comment by astlouis44 in "Fable 5 Is Back"

astlouis44 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 20:22:12 +0000

Try picking a map from the map picker up on the top left drop down section, then click g-23 and you'll be matched against bots.

New comment by astlouis44 in "Fable 5 Is Back"

astlouis44 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 20:21:12 +0000

Wrong, it sure is relevant because it was ported with Fable 5. Did you even read my post?

Also just a suggestion - try not to hate on others so much, it'll make your life more pleasant!

Anthropic says Fable 5 will now flag and route harmless queries to Opus

astlouis44 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 19:44:41 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/claudeai/status/2072402638247968855

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48752130

Points: 6

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New comment by astlouis44 in "Claude Sonnet 5"

astlouis44 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:33:43 +0000

Same

Xonotic (arena FPS) in a web browser

astlouis44 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:25:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.xonotic.gg/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48676603

Points: 4

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New comment by astlouis44 in "Half-Life 2 in a Browser"

astlouis44 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:18:19 +0000

So this port isn't a straight WASM port, you're saying they're running the Windows binary and translating the DirectX8 graphic commands over to WebGL..? Am I understanding correctly?

New comment by astlouis44 in "Half-Life 2 in a Browser"

astlouis44 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:31:52 +0000

Unreal Engine 5 does support the web, albeit as a third party implementation (my company)

We spent the last several years building out a WebGPU RHI for UE5, along with tooling to make games load fast using asset streaming, while using less memory. We were recently featured by Gamesbeat.

You can read more about it below or check out our website:

https://gamesbeat.com/simplystream-unlocks-web-compatibility...

https://simplystream.com/

New comment by astlouis44 in "Half-Life 2 in a Browser"

astlouis44 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:22:11 +0000

Also xonotic! https://www.xonotic.gg/

New comment by astlouis44 in "MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second"

astlouis44 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:17:56 +0000

Interesting. For your occlusion mapping variant, what engine is the game you're making with made with that you're implementing this for? Do you have Claude hooked up to Unity or Unreal?

Show HN: I ported Xonotic to WASM

astlouis44 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:29:54 +0000

Article URL: https://dpgame.xonotic.workers.dev/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48447487

Points: 6

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New comment by astlouis44 in "Major P2P issues in Israel and possibly other Middle East countries"

astlouis44 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 05:41:47 +0000

Totally agreed. I'm building a Steam competitor, that's web-based (WebGPU/WASM) as well as cross-platform. Light on games atm, but the goal is to replicate over time virtually every feature Steam has to offer, as well as more. You can check out a preview of the portal here:

https://gameselect-knvxf8av.manus.space/

New comment by astlouis44 in "Pokemon Emerald Ported to WebAssembly (100k FPS)"

astlouis44 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 22:50:04 +0000

Thanks man, feel free me to DM me on X if you'd like to discuss further, I am planning to push the code to a repo seeing as Xonotic is an OSS game and requires any changes to also be open sourced. And a Playstation recomp implemented in WASM is interesting to think about!

X link: https://x.com/AlexStLouis10

New comment by astlouis44 in "Show HN: I ported Xonotic (arena FPS) to WebAssembly with full P2P multiplayer"

astlouis44 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 22:35:51 +0000

Also if you like it please upvote it, share it, etc!

New comment by astlouis44 in "Show HN: I ported Xonotic (arena FPS) to WebAssembly with full P2P multiplayer"

astlouis44 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 22:35:38 +0000

Thank you! I already added Websocket support actually, along with dedicated client/server, just have to push it as this point.

New comment by astlouis44 in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

astlouis44 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 20:00:37 +0000

Porting Xonotic, an open source arena FPS to the browser with full replicated multiplayer/P2P matchmaking. I did a HN post about it here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48428133

New comment by astlouis44 in "Pokemon Emerald Ported to WebAssembly (100k FPS)"

astlouis44 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 19:38:34 +0000

Really exciting to see more games ported to WASM. For anyone interested, I just did a HN post detailing a port I spent the last 5 days on - Xonotic, an arena FPS. Includes a technical writeup too:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48428133

New comment by astlouis44 in "I ported Xonotic (arena FPS) to WebAssembly"

astlouis44 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 19:29:19 +0000

Hey HN! I've been using Claude Code a lot lately and got curious whether it could port a full open-source game to run in the browser. Xonotic (a fast open-source arena FPS, think Quake III / Unreal Tournament) seemed like a good candidate: it's built on the DarkPlaces engine (real C + OpenGL), ships gigabytes of assets, and has actual multiplayer.

It's fully playable in the browser, no install or plugins. Pick a map like g-23 to drop into a match against bots.

Some of the technical work I wanted to highlight that I/Claude focused on that went into making it actually fast:

- The engine runs off the main thread. DarkPlaces is compiled to WASM/WebGL2, but the whole engine runs on a worker via Emscripten's PROXY_TO_PTHREAD, with the WebGL context owned directly by the worker through an OffscreenCanvas (zero cross-thread GL dispatch). That let me remove Asyncify entirely — the payoff is a steady frame loop (~4 ms/frame, 99.8% of frames under 16 ms in a profiled match).

- GPU texture transcoding. Every texture is Basis Universal / KTX2, transcoded at load time to whatever compressed format your GPU supports (BC7 on desktop, etc). That took the texture set from ~5.3 GB of TGAs down to a few hundred MB on disk and cut GPU memory ~4×. Audio is re-encoded to Ogg Vorbis.

- Streamed on-demand filesystem. Nothing is bundled. The engine reads through a virtual filesystem backed by Cloudflare R2; only a tiny boot set loads upfront, then each map prefetches its working set in parallel and streams the rest as surfaces actually draw. A full map's assets dropped from ~2.3 GB to ~320 MB per session.

- SIMD. Built with -msimd128, so the math and skeletal-animation paths vectorize to wasm128.

- Hosting. Cloudflare R2 (zero egress) behind a Worker, with COOP/COEP headers for SharedArrayBuffer/threads. Assets are immutable-cached and the engine binary revalidates, so reloads are cheap.

Multiplayer is peer-to-peer. Click Host Game and you get a 6-character invite code; a friend enters it and you connect directly browser-to-browser over a WebRTC DataChannel (configured unreliable/unordered to match the engine's UDP netcode).

A tiny Cloudflare Worker only relays the one-time WebRTC handshake — once you're connected, no game traffic touches any server. I tested a real 1v1 between Edmonton and Bangkok and it held up across the Pacific.

Would love feedback, so please report any bugs or glitches here and I'll patch asap.

New comment by astlouis44 in "Theseus: Translating Win32 to WASM"

astlouis44 — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:56:35 +0000

Anyone think this could be used for translating native Windows games over to WASM? Would need to add WebGPU rendering to this

Llamas on the Web

astlouis44 — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:13:06 +0000

Article URL: https://reeselevine.github.io/llamas-on-the-web/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48284498

Points: 5

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