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Real Linux. In a browser tab. No install. No server. No Docker

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Re: Real Linux. In a browser tab. No install. No server. No Docker

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You've been posting this for awhile can you tell me more about how this works?

Probably a slop of https://bellard.org/jslinux/

This is a pretty harsh critique, while I see the agent related markdown the application seems measured and well applied. Hardly seems like slop; it's might be a one man show+ai agent but the direction and project composition feel like it's something that's logical and manageable.

I personally like the idea even as a p.o.c (inline with bellards work). I'd like to see how nostr & cloudflare workers providing out of band ops on what is effectively a container per tab.

Re: Real Linux. In a browser tab. No install. No server. No Docker

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post #4

You've been posting this for awhile can you tell me more about how this works?

Probably a slop of https://bellard.org/jslinux/

Have to agree. Unsure why the page is comparing with docker/cloud shell instead of jslinux/webvm.

Re: Real Linux. In a browser tab. No install. No server. No Docker

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The entire project is complete low-effort slop. Even the user name of the person is AI and the title says it all.

This account has been posting the same site repeatedly and it makes me think that this is 100% a bot account or AI agent.

I think we need a higher quality bar for posts on HN given that the flood of low quality projects such as this just add additional noise.

The comment that you cannot see at the bottom violates the HN guide-lines of AI-generated text from: [0]

"Don't post generated text or AI-edited text. HN is for conversation between humans."

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Real Linux. In a browser tab. No install. No server. No Docker

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post #5
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably a slop of https://bellard.org/jslinux/

This is a pretty harsh critique, while I see the agent related markdown the application seems measured and well applied. Hardly seems like slop; it's might be a one man show+ai agent but the direction and project composition feel like it's something that's logical and manageable. I personally like the idea even as a p.o.c (inline with bellards work). I'd like to see how nostr & cloudflare workers providing out of ban…

I don't think that guesstimating that something is an AI slop is very harsh these days. It sure has the signs of one:

- HN User created 66 days ago

- In these 66 days it submitted 4 stories about this project

- The heavy lifting is all done by v86 project (not jslinux as initially suspected)

- The project is a "rebrand/fork" from another project by the same author - "traits.build".

- In the original project, the first commits that mention v86 seem to start at around 23rd of April.

To be clear, I don't really mind people vibing & slopping around. I just would want to have a disclosure about it.

Re: Real Linux. In a browser tab. No install. No server. No Docker

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As another commenter pointed out this is similar to our WebVM (https://webvm.io) , although this one is based on v86 so it will be less performant.

Although the x86 virtualization angle is powerful we think that native WebAssembly executables on top of a Linux-compatible kernel are more viable for the execution of full workloads in the browser.

BrowserPod is a newer project of ours that brings to vision to life, we have recently published a deep dive that might be interesting: https://labs.leaningtech.com/blog/browserpod-deep-dive

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