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alexboehm

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    Comment #49152048

    Interesting, I've been building the inverse of this project, to enable running Linux binaries on macOS, as that's not something I've seen in an active project. It works an a very s…

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    Comment #48340705

    It's already sort of possible. https://codeberg.org/fellowtraveler/flux here is my Zig DAW. It has been amazing for the audio engine, but the ui is currently using imgui.

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    Comment #48164783

    I think this period of false positives is ending, https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/04/22/high-quality-chaos/ that's according to the curl maintainer that initially blew the lid on …

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    Show HN: Bitrpc – a Rust RPC library using bitcode, HTTP3, and io_uring

    I've loved the ergonomics of using tarpc for Rust projects, but I wanted a higher performance RPC library that could take advantage of bitcode's serialization speed and size https:…

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    Comment #43793738

    I have been playing with it, it's very cool to be able to run anywhere. Do you have plans to implement wasi-http? One of my concerns is the free tier only offers Compute as a trial…

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    Comment #43793329

    The difference is Wasm provides the security boundary so it can be multi tenanted. The real magic is that wasi will be hostable anywhere much like Docker containers are today, but …

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    Comment #43793242

    Well at that point you'll obviously start having to think about it. The point is you can easily move to self-hosting without rewriting everything.

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    Comment #43792773

    A more descriptive word would been self-hostable function as a service, that's why faas is in the name! The point of serverless is you don't have to think about hosting, and ideall…

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    Comment #43792017

    Thanks for the feedback, I've added the URL to about, I originally supported path prefix and subdomains, but I found it slightly more confusing to communicate to users. I'm definit…

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    Comment #43791959

    The plan is for it to be an opensource project, currently the cli and interface crates are MIT, I have been considering a copyleft license for the server, or a dual licensing strat…

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    Comment #43791000

    I'm not discounting WASIX or what you guys are doing I'd love to just use wasm today for everything instead of waiting, I started this project by trying to use WASIX, I just found …

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    Comment #43790549

    For self hosted, if you use porkbun for DNS it will automatically pull a wildcard SSL cert using the API at startup. I plan to also support multiple custom domain certs on a multi …

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    Comment #43790358

    After delving into this, it seems Wasmer tried, but as they weren't standards compliant, adoption/ecosystem support never followed. The Bytecode alliance is taking their time stabi…

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    Show HN: Faasta – A self-hosted Serverless platform for WASM-wasi-HTTP in Rust

    I've just released an early version off my project I've been working on for a few months now and would love some feedback. https://github.com/fourlexboehm/faasta I was surprised th…