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Re: Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem

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Post by Imustaskforhelp »

theMackabu wrote: post #20
Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hmm, the ants.land website in general isn't resolving for my desktop but it is resolving for my laptop, a bit strange. It states: Server Not Found, Zen can’t connect to the server at ants.land What can you do about it? Try connecting on a different device. Check your modem or router. Disconnect and reconnect to Wi-Fi. yet my laptop which also uses zen which is also connected to the same Wi-Fi resolves the page so I a…

thats very weird, its hosted on cloudflare workers atm. might be blocked by your isp? ive seen that happen to .land

Oh I think that I might be getting it now but I had an custom nextdns profile set up on my browser using nextdns with some more aggressive setups using typosquatting protection etc.

It seems that changing the dns setting made it resolve and afterwards even going back to the same profile is now (resolving it again?) [Could it be that the domain is now cached not needing to go to the dns provider] but I guess that I wouldn't blame you guys about it so much and just wanted to inform y'all of it :-D

> ive seen that happen to .land

interesting, is there any reason behind DNS/(ISP?) providers blocking .land domains?

Re: Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem

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Post by theMackabu »

egnehots wrote: post #23

You're stating: "delivers near-V8 speeds" But according to zoo.js benchmarks that is far from the case: https://zoo.js.org/ Unless there were major perf gains since 2026-02-10?

many, the engine has basically gone through a full rewrite since feb, that was still mostly interpt and missing many jit ops.

nightly will include benchmarks soon as well

Re: Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem

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Post by tekacs »

I code with AI all day, every day. But I do think that it's worth pointing to this issue (from March).

The author has said that they've redone it since, but the "from-scratch hand-built" framing specifically – for me – somewhat grates given the original heavy lifting from an existing AGPL codebase.

https://github.com/cesanta/elk/issues/75

I want to acknowledge that the original authors don't seem to have minded too much – per that thread – after older versions were dropped.

For context, the current code doesn't look like it is the same shape, the same structure, etc., etc. – it _has_ been rewritten since (the 'since Feb' rewrite mentioned adjacent is related to this, AFAICT).

To the author: I absolutely love what you're doing overall. Keep going! Just be careful, folks.

Re: Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem

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Post by theMackabu »

Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #24
theMackabu wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

thats very weird, its hosted on cloudflare workers atm. might be blocked by your isp? ive seen that happen to .land

Oh I think that I might be getting it now but I had an custom nextdns profile set up on my browser using nextdns with some more aggressive setups using typosquatting protection etc. It seems that changing the dns setting made it resolve and afterwards even going back to the same profile is now (resolving it again?) [Could it be that the domain is now cached not needing to go to the dns provider] but I guess that I wo…

> interesting, is there any reason behind DNS/(ISP?) providers blocking .land domains?

tbh have not seen any reason behind it, just saw my ants.land get blocked a office firewall once while demoing

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