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Domains by the Numbers

samwho — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 20:16:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.dotcom.press/archive/domains-by-the-numbers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49128066

Points: 3

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New comment by samwho in "Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber"

samwho — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:50:06 +0000

You are extremely welcome.

New comment by samwho in "Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber"

samwho — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:20:36 +0000

Sam Rose here. Thank you <3

New comment by samwho in "I ported Kubernetes to the browser"

samwho — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:56:48 +0000

I gave my boss every opportunity to stop me.

New comment by samwho in "I ported Kubernetes to the browser"

samwho — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:55:58 +0000

Single browser.

New comment by samwho in "I ported Kubernetes to the browser"

samwho — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 06:53:32 +0000

I learned that etcd wasn’t required while making webernetes! I’d always thought it was, was cool to learn some clusters use other storage backends.

New comment by samwho in "I ported Kubernetes to the browser"

samwho — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 06:52:07 +0000

Completely agree! Wasn’t trying to discourage, hope it doesn’t have that effect.

New comment by samwho in "I ported Kubernetes to the browser"

samwho — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 06:50:23 +0000

Thank you!

To address the earlier comment: I didn’t go down the “implement the OS-level stuff required to get k8s to compile to wasm” path due to bundle size, honestly and truly. My testing indicated it could be over 10Mb, and I didn’t want that if I could avoid it. Turns out, I could avoid it.

Whether it’s a bad idea remains to be seen. It could be! The project will never have full parity with k8s, and as k8s moves forward I probably won’t keep up. But I think the core of k8s is stable enough that that’s okay, and I can make great content about the bits that don’t change.

New comment by samwho in "I ported Kubernetes to the browser"

samwho — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:58:14 +0000

I’d guess that about 90% of the webernetes code is ported directly from the Kubernetes codebase. In that sense it is a port of Kubernetes to the browser. But the CRI and CNI are facsimiles created to work in the browser and for the purpose of making educational content.

The thing I think is most misleading about the title is that I haven’t ported _all_ of Kubernetes. It’s just the slice I needed. I’m hoping to gradually port more of it, though.

New comment by samwho in "I ported Kubernetes to the browser"

samwho — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:54:15 +0000

I’m 100% confident it would be possible to do a worker-per-pod runtime. If you’re serious about trying to make it then slide into my DMs, would love to talk about it. I also think a CRI that supports WASM would be fairly easy.

Volumes are one of those things that I’m quite sure won’t be that difficult to implement but I don’t have a need for them in the near future, so likely won’t support them for a good while.

New comment by samwho in "I ported Kubernetes to the browser"

samwho — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:51:07 +0000

This is it. If you’re building something novel, and you want to rely on LLMs, you need to invest heavily in making tests. You don’t have the luxury of a reference implementation like I did here.

New comment by samwho in "I ported Kubernetes to the browser"

samwho — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:40:52 +0000

I have some potentially bad news for you:

https://samwho.dev/load-balancing https://encore.dev/blog/queueing

New comment by samwho in "I ported Kubernetes to the browser"

samwho — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:39:20 +0000

For some projects I think only reading the tests is probably fine. In this project I didn’t think it was enough purely because it’s a port of existing code, so there was a need to validate the port was as exact as it could be.

Many projects would be just fine if you created a comprehensive-enough set of tests that you understood to be enough.

New comment by samwho in "I ported Kubernetes to the browser"

samwho — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:35:34 +0000

Web workers were on my mind from the start but I never found myself needing them. They were always my ace-in-the-hole if this ended up being too CPU hungry on the main thread but it never happened, so I didn’t bother.

One of the fun things is it shouldn’t be too difficult to create a new RuntimeService that uses web workers and slots in alongside my existing CRI. I’d love a PR along those lines!

New comment by samwho in "I ported Kubernetes to the browser"

samwho — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:33:29 +0000

Sadly Katacoda got paywalled (totally get why they did it, these things have costs). I think some other similar platforms disappeared because they ran out of people willing to fund it. It’s a shame.

I’m hoping this offers an alternative. It has the risk of becoming out of date with reality, but at least even in that case the core should ~always be relevant.

New comment by samwho in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"

samwho — Sat, 16 May 2026 09:39:57 +0000

Looking really good! Great work.

New comment by samwho in "Quantization from the Ground Up"

samwho — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:05:39 +0000

You’re welcome! Thanks so much for the kind words.

New comment by samwho in "Quantization from the Ground Up"

samwho — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:52:59 +0000

Thank you!

New comment by samwho in "Quantization from the Ground Up"

samwho — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:52:29 +0000

“Zero point” is how I saw it referred to in the literature, so that’s what I went with. I personally prefer to think of it as an offset, but I try to stick with terms folks are likely to see in the wild.

New comment by samwho in "Quantization from the Ground Up"

samwho — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:22:55 +0000

Definitely could be, but in the time I spent talking to the 4-bit models in comparison to the 16-bit original it seemed surprisingly capable still. I do recommend benchmarking quantized models at the specific tasks you care about.