Hacker News: syrusakbary

GigaToken: ~1000x faster Language model tokenization

syrusakbary — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 17:20:38 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/marcelroed/gigatoken/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49010167

Points: 399

# Comments: 79

New comment by syrusakbary in "Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem"

syrusakbary — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 02:28:57 +0000

It's refreshing to see more self-made JS runtimes.

I'd love to see if I can integrate it onto Edge.js for full Node.js support ( https://edgejs.org )

New comment by syrusakbary in "Wasmer: Fast, secure, lightweight containers based on WebAssembly"

syrusakbary — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 01:58:30 +0000

Fixed!

New comment by syrusakbary in "Wasmer: Fast, secure, lightweight containers based on WebAssembly"

syrusakbary — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 05:14:44 +0000

Yeah, we create Wasm Containers from your application and deploy it to the edge so it can scale serverlessly :)

New comment by syrusakbary in "A complete ClickHouse OLAP engine, compiled to WebAssembly"

syrusakbary — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:16:19 +0000

Excited on what this brings to the server-side :)

New comment by syrusakbary in "Deno Desktop"

syrusakbary — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:21:28 +0000

We have created Edge.js that can run Node.js apps fully using your preferred JS runtime: V8 or QuickJS.

https://edgejs.org/

New comment by syrusakbary in "WASI 0.3"

syrusakbary — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:48:55 +0000

If you are looking for a Systems Interface, I don't think the Component Model will be a good fit

New comment by syrusakbary in "WASI 0.3"

syrusakbary — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:48:56 +0000

Congrats on the release to the WASI team.

TL;DR: WASI 0.3.0 is the Component Model-based WASI proposal. It adds async/await-style capabilities such as actors and streams, and today is runnable in only one server-side Wasm runtime (it is not supported natively by browsers). Unfortunately it still breaks compatibility with the original WASI proposal and runtimes that supported it.

If your goal is to compile existing, unmodified C/C++ programs and libraries to WebAssembly, WASIX may be a more practical option today ( https://wasix.org/ ). Disclosure: I’m part of Wasmer, the company behind WASIX.

Porting Wasmer Django backend to Rust improved the infra usage by 90%

syrusakbary — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:54:41 +0000

Article URL: https://wasmer.io/posts/ported-wasmer-backend-django-to-rust

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48403037

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

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

syrusakbary — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:39:01 +0000

This is a fork of Chicory, a bit more context of the relationship between the projects can be found here:

https://github.com/dylibso/chicory/issues/1296

New comment by syrusakbary in "Deno 2.8"

syrusakbary — Fri, 22 May 2026 23:29:51 +0000

It's great to see that since the release of Edge.js [1], they started to take Node.js compatibility more seriously (they went from ~40% to about 75% in just 2 months, so either coincidental or not this is clearly a step on the right direction).

Good work to everyone on the Deno team!

[1] https://edgejs.org/

New comment by syrusakbary in "Retrofitting JIT Compilers into C Interpreters"

syrusakbary — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:12:03 +0000

Yeah, the strategy is literally the same

New comment by syrusakbary in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2026)"

syrusakbary — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:54:28 +0000

Wasmer (YC S19) | https://wasmer.io/ | Multiple Roles | Remote (EU) or Office (US) | Full-time

We are building the next generation of infrastructure for AI without Docker containers, but with a better container technology based on WebAssembly!

We are hiring for:

  * Rust Engineer (Remote, EU timezone)
  * Rust Distributed Engineer (Remote, EU timezone)
  * Developer Education Engineer (Office, San Francisco)

https://www.workatastartup.com/companies/wasmer

Nanobrew: The fastest macOS package manager compatible with brew

syrusakbary — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:40:21 +0000

Article URL: https://nanobrew.trilok.ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47501211

Points: 225

# Comments: 146

New comment by syrusakbary in "Node.js needs a virtual file system"

syrusakbary — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:35:47 +0000

Well, with the help of AI now you can have Fast, Affordable, and Correct.

New comment by syrusakbary in "Edge.js: Run Node apps inside a WebAssembly sandbox"

syrusakbary — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:46:15 +0000

Just set it to MIT :)

New comment by syrusakbary in "Edge.js: Run Node apps inside a WebAssembly sandbox"

syrusakbary — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:45:34 +0000

Thanks Yuri. Keep up the good work

New comment by syrusakbary in "Edge.js: Run Node apps inside a WebAssembly sandbox"

syrusakbary — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 22:12:25 +0000

Actually agree with you here. It will be a good idea to add docs for the CLI and the WebAssembly sandboxing

New comment by syrusakbary in "Edge.js: Run Node apps inside a WebAssembly sandbox"

syrusakbary — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 22:11:43 +0000

Yet... stay tuned!

New comment by syrusakbary in "Edge.js: Run Node apps inside a WebAssembly sandbox"

syrusakbary — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:08:28 +0000

Thanks Ben! Took us a bit to figure out the best architecture for it, but once it became clear then it was just a matter of implementing the missing bits.

I think the fact that WASIX is much more mature now have helped to increase development speeds quite a bit!