Hacker News: mendyberger

The Future of wasi-gfx and wasi:webgpu

mendyberger — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:42:58 +0000

Article URL: https://wasi-gfx.dev/blog/posts/future-of-wasi-gfx/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48465634

Points: 43

# Comments: 13

New comment by mendyberger in "Endive: A JVM native WebAssembly runtime"

mendyberger — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:48:44 +0000

Component model can run in any js runtime with jco

Sandboxing AIOps and Agentic AI Security

mendyberger — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:04:20 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.cosmonic.com/engineering/aiops-and-agentic-ai-security-in-a-componentized-world/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48064236

Points: 13

# Comments: 0

OpenAI: WebAssembly and Rust Are Reshaping Data Visualization in BI

mendyberger — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:52:54 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.gopenai.com/dashboard-studio-rs-how-webassembly-and-rust-are-reshaping-data-visualization-in-bi-ef950243f700

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47965214

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mendyberger in "An Update on GitHub Availability"

mendyberger — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:37:48 +0000

I wonder if this mess has anything to do with talent loss resulting from layoffs after the pandemic

New comment by mendyberger in "Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web"

mendyberger — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:17:00 +0000

Wasm is safer since it has a much smaller attack surface.

New comment by mendyberger in "Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web"

mendyberger — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 17:04:01 +0000

Sorry, here's the working link https://github.com/mendyberger/browser.wit

New comment by mendyberger in "Notes on writing Rust-based Wasm"

mendyberger — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:59:49 +0000

It's not just about string performance, it's about making wasm a first class experience on the web. That includes performance improvements - because you don't need to wake up the js engine - but it's a lot more than that. Including much better dev-ex, which is not great as you can see in the OP.

It would also enable combining different languages with high-level interfaces rather than having to drop down to c-style interfaces for everything.

New comment by mendyberger in "Notes on writing Rust-based Wasm"

mendyberger — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 15:08:00 +0000

Things are slowly getting better in wasm world.

The c-style interface of wasm is pretty limiting when designing higher level interfaces, which is why wasn-bindgen is required in the first place.

Luckily, Firefox is pushing an early proposal to expose all the web apis directly to wasm through a higher level interface based on the wasm component-model proposal.

See https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/02/making-webassembly-a-first...

New comment by mendyberger in "System76 on Age Verification Laws"

mendyberger — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 08:06:43 +0000

> Comparing today's internet to the 90s is hardly fair. It has become extremely predatory...

I think you're missing the point they're trying to make. It's not that the problem isn't real, it's that the solution won't work. Kids will find a way around. They have a lot more free time than us.

New comment by mendyberger in "Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web"

mendyberger — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 13:26:22 +0000

There can be an automated way of translating WebIDL to wit.

I've actually tried to do that the past and got pretty far. https://github.com/wasi-gfx/webidl2wit

And here's the generated wit https://github.com/mendyberger/brow

New comment by mendyberger in "Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web"

mendyberger — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:24:29 +0000

> What specific scenarios do you aspire to unlock

Modern languages come with lots of interesting features like better dev ex, null safety, etc. Js is a fine language, but there are other languages that bring unique advantages, the web shouldn't block developers from using better tools. The web is best off when developers have freedom.

New comment by mendyberger in "Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web"

mendyberger — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:31:40 +0000

Is `component {}` valid wit syntax? I've never seen that before

New comment by mendyberger in "One Hack Nearly Took Down the Internet (Veritasium) [video]"

mendyberger — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 03:38:22 +0000

41:08

> it doesn't seem like this should be possible on a Linux server

Some real misconceptions here

New comment by mendyberger in "One Hack Nearly Took Down the Internet (Veritasium) [video]"

mendyberger — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 23:08:34 +0000

18 seconds in:

> at the time just about everyone believed that hacking the system was impossible.

Bit of a nitpick, but I don't think saying things like this to normies is a good idea. Every system is hackable.

New comment by mendyberger in "10 Years of WASM: A Retrospective"

mendyberger — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 20:53:55 +0000

As someone who very interested in wasm, I really loved the post!

New comment by mendyberger in "Show HN: AwsmRenderer, a browser-native WebGPU renderer in Rust"

mendyberger — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 17:54:16 +0000

Fair enough.

For me, having wgpu's rust native api feels so much nicer than having to deal with the unergenomic web_sys api. Tradeoffs.

New comment by mendyberger in "Show HN: AwsmRenderer, a browser-native WebGPU renderer in Rust"

mendyberger — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:54:35 +0000

Curious, why use web-sys directly instead of wgpu?

Reddit Partially Down

mendyberger — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 05:09:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.redditstatus.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46201463

Points: 7

# Comments: 2

New comment by mendyberger in "Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming"

mendyberger — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 04:47:51 +0000

Can happen to corporate projects as well. As one example, look at how many projects Google has killed.