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WebAssembly runtimes, tooling, optimization, interoperability, and browser and server applications.

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01 / EXPLORE THROUGH TIME

Timeline

Start with the latest. Scroll back through time, or zoom in for more.

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2026419 stories
It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis↗ anubis.techaro.lol · HN · 199 comments · 362 points · Sep 06, 2026
Pokemon Emerald Ported to WebAssembly (100k FPS)↗ pokeemerald.com · HN · 103 comments · 363 points · Jun 06, 2026
Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning↗ github.com · HN · 227 comments · 430 points · May 10, 2026
Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web↗ hacks.mozilla.org · HN · 271 comments · 664 points · Mar 11, 2026
What happened to WebAssembly↗ emnudge.dev · HN · 320 comments · 350 points · Jan 09, 2026
2025405 stories
Ghostty compiled to WASM with xterm.js API compatibility↗ github.com · HN · 115 comments · 393 points · Dec 01, 2025
GHC now runs in the browser↗ discourse.haskell.org · HN · 126 comments · 358 points · Nov 01, 2025
Python on the Edge: Fast, sandboxed, and powered by WebAssembly↗ wasmer.io · HN · 158 comments · 399 points · Sep 24, 2025
WASM 3.0 Completed↗ webassembly.org · HN · 494 comments · 1086 points · Sep 17, 2025
Show HN: Porting Terraria and Celeste to WebAssembly↗ velzie.rip · HN · 48 comments · 338 points · May 26, 2025
2024448 stories
Show HN: Jaws – a JavaScript to WASM ahead-of-time compiler↗ github.com · HN · 107 comments · 290 points · Nov 09, 2024
Sqlite3 WebAssembly↗ sqlite.org · HN · 192 comments · 647 points · Oct 15, 2024
WebVM is a server-less virtual Linux environment running client-side↗ webvm.io · HN · 127 comments · 632 points · Jul 11, 2024
Google Sheets ported its calculation worker from JavaScript to WasmGC↗ web.dev · HN · 214 comments · 450 points · Jun 27, 2024
3D + 2D: Testing out my cross-platform WASM graphics engine↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 152 comments · 579 points · Apr 02, 2024
2023543 stories
YoWASP aims to distribute up-to-date FOSS FPGA tools compiled to WebAssembly↗ yowasp.org · HN · 5 comments · 32 points · Dec 25, 2023
Understanding every byte in a WASM module↗ danielmangum.com · HN · 37 comments · 206 points · Dec 23, 2023
Wasm3 entering a minimal maintenance phase↗ github.com · HN · 0 comments · 25 points · Dec 18, 2023
Unity announces updates to it's web runtime support↗ blog.unity.com · HN · 5 comments · 24 points · Nov 30, 2023
Perspective 2.0, Open Source WebAssembly-Powered BI↗ perspective.finos.org · HN · 16 comments · 146 points · Apr 05, 2023
2022568 stories
SQLite in the browser with WASM/JS↗ sqlite.org · HN · 198 comments · 547 points · Oct 28, 2022
Wasmtime 1.0↗ bytecodealliance.org · HN · 104 comments · 497 points · Sep 20, 2022
Tell HN: We are trying to get tail calls into the WebAssembly standard↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 290 comments · 625 points · Jul 12, 2022
LibreOffice running natively in the browser via WebAssembly↗ lab.allotropia.de · HN · 208 comments · 571 points · Feb 16, 2022
Prime Video Uses WebAssembly↗ amazon.science · HN · 247 comments · 428 points · Jan 27, 2022
2021342 stories
WebAssembly and Back Again: Fine-Grained Sandboxing in Firefox 95↗ hacks.mozilla.org · HN · 144 comments · 392 points · Dec 06, 2021
14kb WASM game written in D↗ skoppe.github.io · HN · 107 comments · 329 points · Sep 14, 2021
WebAssembly from Scratch: From FizzBuzz to DooM↗ github.com · HN · 89 comments · 527 points · Jul 14, 2021
Is WebAssembly magic performance pixie dust?↗ surma.dev · HN · 248 comments · 347 points · Apr 14, 2021
Wasmer 1.0↗ medium.com · HN · 161 comments · 342 points · Jan 05, 2021
2020491 stories
WebAssembly Studio↗ webassembly.studio · HN · 214 comments · 394 points · Dec 31, 2020
A pure WebAssembly / JavaScript port of FFmpeg↗ ffmpegwasm.github.io · HN · 125 comments · 362 points · Nov 04, 2020
Fastly hires entire Wasmtime team from Mozilla↗ bytecodealliance.org · HN · 135 comments · 813 points · Oct 26, 2020
Workstream: A fast virtual computer you can use for anything↗ workstream.paperspace.com · HN · 252 comments · 390 points · Apr 16, 2020
Firefox's low-latency WebAssembly compiler↗ wingolog.org · HN · 100 comments · 375 points · Mar 26, 2020
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02 / CATCH UP

The conversation now

Popular stories, with attention fading over roughly two weeks.

It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis↗ anubis.techaro.lol · HN · 199 comments · 362 points · Sep 06, 2026
Performance of WebAssembly Runtimes in 2026↗ 00f.net · HN · 25 comments · 102 points · Sep 09, 2026
Engineering of the fastest WebAssembly interpreters↗ wasmi-labs.github.io · HN · 22 comments · 138 points · Sep 01, 2026
Declarative WebGPU with S-Expressions↗ hugodaniel.com · HN · 11 comments · 47 points · Aug 23, 2026
Blink – A 452KB decision model in C/WASM with no token generation↗ github.com · HN · 0 comments · 6 points · Sep 22, 2026

03 / GO DEEPER

Follow your curiosity

Find a particular story, revisit a year, or see what resonated.

Highest rated · the last 30 days

It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis↗ anubis.techaro.lol · HN · 199 comments · 362 points · Sep 06, 2026
Engineering of the fastest WebAssembly interpreters↗ wasmi-labs.github.io · HN · 22 comments · 138 points · Sep 01, 2026
Performance of WebAssembly Runtimes in 2026↗ 00f.net · HN · 25 comments · 102 points · Sep 09, 2026
I was able to reduce size of my WASM app by 29.6%↗ akshy.codeberg.page · HN · 0 comments · 8 points · Sep 07, 2026
Terminal multiplexer and experimental Wayland compositor for browsers↗ blit.sh · HN · 0 comments · 7 points · Sep 13, 2026
Blink – A 452KB decision model in C/WASM with no token generation↗ github.com · HN · 0 comments · 6 points · Sep 22, 2026
WASM to Go Source Code↗ github.com · HN · 0 comments · 5 points · Sep 16, 2026
Node.js sandboxes powered by QuickJS and WebAssembly↗ wasmer.io · HN · 0 comments · 5 points · Aug 31, 2026
FreePascal WebAssembly (WASM)↗ wiki.freepascal.org · HN · 0 comments · 4 points · Sep 26, 2026
iHatePDF – PDF tools that run locally in the browser via WASM↗ ihatepdf.com · HN · 0 comments · 4 points · Sep 19, 2026

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