Blind Upload uses crypto.subtle to encrypt files in the browser, before uploading them to the cloud and displaying the key only in the browser.
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Ask HN: Can you share websites that are pushing the utility of browsers forward?
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#42My site https://james.darpinian.com/satellites/ uses WebGL, Web Workers, WASM, Service Workers, Notifications API, Geolocation API, probably some other web platform features I'm forgetting. The use of workers and WASM is not obvious, but on page load it takes the current orbit parameters for every orbiting satellite that is potentially visible anywhere on Earth and calculates the future position of each satellite eve…
Amazing, minor nitpick it shows the ISS as visible over Ireland at approx 9pm tonight, pretty bright in Ireland at that time at this time of year, will check and report back if it was visible. Great work, you have amazing talent!
Thanks! ISS is very bright; bright enough that it is sometimes even visible before sunset if you know exactly where to look! It's fun to try to spot it in a bright sky although it can be difficult. Let me know if you find it!
Re: Ask HN: Can you share websites that are pushing the utility of browsers forward?
#43https://webvm.io is our public demo of CheerpX, an x86 virtualization technology made with WebAssembly.
At Leaning Technologies we have been using WebAssembly pretty much from day 1 as part of our C++ and Java compilers. CheerpX is our latest product, and we think it really pushes the boundaries of what is possible in the modern browser.
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#44WebGL: Google Maps is arguably the #1 application. It's used to draw the line drawing based maps and to re-draw them with different things emphasized depending on your needs (as well as rotate, scale, zoom, smoothly) But also, of course the fact that it goes 3D. It feels like they've de-emphasized this feature because I suspect few people use or or even know it exists but demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbxYG5Sb…
3D Buildings in Google Map like that was announced a few days ago at Google IO, it's called immersive view. https://blog.google/products/maps/three-maps-updates-io-2022...
I don't think we can actually use it yet though.
Edit: that video might be of a different 3D feature I have no idea of
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#45https://webwormhole.io and https://file.pizza both use WebRTC for p2p file transfer. They differ quite a lot in UX but both are really useful: it's 2022 and sending files to one another still seems to be a pain without tools like these.
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#46We are building https://studio.foxglove.dev/ which is a visualization tool for robotics. Click “Explore sample data” to see a demo. Uses WebGL and some WebAssembly.
Wow - this looks great.
What's the tech-stack for this?
Other than WebGL - what do you use for the UI?
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#47Thank you for giving me the opportunity to showcase my JS canvas library, Scrawl-canvas[0], the aim of which is to help developers build responsive, interactive and more accessible canvas-based demos, infographics, art etc for their websites.
While the library is entirely 2D-canvas oriented and doesn't use any ultra-new tech like WebGL (or even less-new tech like web workers), it does play nicely with WebAssembly-ported tech such as ML models from MediaPipe[1] and TensorFlow...
[0] - https://scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk/
[1] - https://codepen.io/kaliedarik/pen/PopBxBM (Warning: demo will request to use your device's camera)
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#48https://github.com/expenses/mateversum uses all 4 of WebXR, WebGL, WebAssembly and WebRTC.
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#49Polygonjs [1] uses WebGL (via threejs [2]) pretty heavily. It allows you to create interactive WebGL experiences, without coding, only by connecting nodes. So you can set up geometry processing, particle systems, custom shaders or object behaviors.
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#50We are building Construct, an entire game development IDE in the browser: https://editor.construct.net