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57 mentions on Hacker News by 52 people: 5 stories, 52 comments · first 2019-06-01 · latest 2026-08-13

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    WASI 0.3.1
    story by yoshuaw · 2026-08-13 · 0 comments
  2. Ok, I've swapped that link in at the top and put the submitted URL ( https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/releases/tag/v0.3.0 ) in the toptext.
    comment by dang · 2026-06-12 · in WASI 0.3
  3. ….tar.gz I think you can browse the content for this release (.wit interface files) here on GitHub: https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/tree/v0.3.0/proposals
    comment by simonw · 2026-06-12 · in WASI 0.3
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    WASI 0.3
    story by mavdol04 · 2026-06-12 · 98 comments
  5. …possible to run WebAssembly programs from the command line (without any GUI) using WASI (see e.g. https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI ). Thus if the user downloads pdfconverter.wasi , and the user already has e.g. wasmtime installed, they…
    comment by ptspts · 2026-01-19 · in Show HN: Pdfwithlove – PDF tools that run 100% locally (no uploads, no back end)
  6. …APIs preserve the essential sandboxed nature of WebAssembly through a Capability-based API design. https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/blob/main/README.md#wasi...
    comment by jauntywundrkind · 2025-05-11 · in Why not object capability languages?
  7. …don't need to. Take a look at the WASI Proposals page [1] for an overview of all WASI APIs. [1]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/blob/main/Proposals.md
    comment by yoshuaw · 2025-03-26 · in Hyperlight WASM: Fast, secure, and OS-free
  8. …technologies that cannot be simply ported, but the explicit goal is to not require porting. [0]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/tree/main/wasip2
    comment by hardwaresofton · 2025-02-12 · in WASM will replace containers
  9. …that there are no global namespaces at runtime, and no global functions at link time. Source: https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/blob/main/README.md
    comment by mikewarot · 2025-02-12 · in WASM will replace containers
  10. …to host and web application firewall rules will come out of this, similar to how deno does it. [1] https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI
    comment by cookiengineer · 2025-02-12 · in WASM will replace containers
  11. …feature there is async without function coloring), but you can look at the core interfaces: https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/tree/main/wasip2 This is what people are building on, in the upstream, and in the bytecode alliance You're…
    comment by hardwaresofton · 2025-02-12 · in WASM will replace containers
  12. WASI Preview 2: https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/blob/main/wasip2/README.... : > wasi-io, wasi-clocks, wasi-random, wasi-filesystem, wasi-sockets, wasi-cli, wasi-http
    comment by westurner · 2025-02-04 · in I Wrote a WebAssembly VM in C
  13. …starting now, WASI 0.3 is expected to be at least a year away. WebAssembly/WASI > WASI Preview 2: https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/tree/main/wasip2
    comment by westurner · 2024-11-29 · in WasmCloud makes strides with WASM component model
  14. …(WASI). WASI provides operating system integration for wasm applications outside the browser: https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/tree/main In the meantime you can use JavaScript glue code auto-generated by your toolchain to access the…
    comment by peutetre · 2024-11-21 · in Ask HN: What are some unpopular opinions you got?
  15. …across the other runtimes [1]: https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-building-llvm-for-webassemb... [2]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/issues/414
    comment by kylewlacy · 2024-10-07 · in Show HN: Compiling C in the browser using WebAssembly
  16. …someone is interested in putting in the work. Our guide to how to create proposals is found here: https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/blob/main/Contributing.m... .
    comment by phickey · 2024-01-26 · in WASI 0.2.0 and Why It Matters
  17. Sadly, still no Framebuffer API for WASI GUI apps ( https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/issues/174 ).
    comment by niutech · 2024-01-26 · in WASI 0.2.0 and Why It Matters
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    WASI Launching Preview 2
    story by mendyberger · 2024-01-25 · 0 comments
  19. …the underlying messy API it's built on. There are specs to make the API more standardized like https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI But overall, yeah, it feels like a shiny new toy everyone is excited about and wants to use. Some toys can…
    comment by rdtsc · 2024-01-09 · in Missing the Point of WebAssembly
  20. …Preview 1 is the standard all tools are building to right now. The specification is available here: https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/blob/main/legacy/preview... It's pretty unreadable though! Preview 2 looks like it will be a big…
    comment by benno128 · 2023-08-29 · in Running WASI binaries from your HTML using Web Components
  21. …the web) and WASI's disinterest in supporting UTF-16 strings. You can see for yourself in [4]. [0]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/tree/main#wasi-high-leve... [1]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/component-model/blob/main/des... [2]:…
    comment by Philpax · 2023-08-05 · in WASI: WebAssembly System Interface
  22. …yet to see a clear write-up about what WASI is. I click on "docs" folder and there's one file. https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/blob/main/docs/WitInWasi... . WTF is wit? This should be in a CONTRIBUTORS.md not in the docs folder. I…
    comment by SnowProblem · 2023-08-05 · in WASI: WebAssembly System Interface
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    WASI: WebAssembly System Interface
    story by teleforce · 2023-08-05 · 76 comments
  24. …am making a terrible mistake would be appreciated :) [1] https://github.com/hashicorp/go-plugin [2] https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/blob/snapshot-01/phases/...
    comment by migmartri · 2023-07-06 · in Choosing Hashicorp go-plugin in 2023?
  25. …here. The actual latest definition is in "legacy/preview1". Yes that is the latest WASI definition. https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/blob/main/legacy/preview... What do the inputs mean? How should it behave in some extreme conditions?…
    comment by shp0ngle · 2023-05-30 · in WASIX, the Superset of WASI Supporting Threads, Processes and Sockets
  26. …at totally different approaches? Or is Cosmonic overloading the terminology of "capability"? [0] https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI#capability-based-securit... [1] https://cosmonic.com/docs/category/capabilities [2]…
    comment by rapnie · 2023-05-24 · in SQLite builds for WASI since 3.41.0
  27. I've been reading the following repositories. https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/blob/main/Proposals.md https://github.com/WebAssembly/wasi-threads
    comment by samsquire · 2023-03-24 · in The tug-of-war over server-side WebAssembly
  28. …https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/capsicum/ > 1: < https://github.com/NuxiNL/cloudabi > 2: < https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI >
    comment by Findecanor · 2023-01-25 · in HelloSystem – OS with original Mac philosophy with a modern architecture
  29. …it means. Apparently it’s Web Assembly System Interface. But what does that mean? To quote from https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI : > The WebAssembly System Interface is not a monolithic standard system interface, but is instead a…
    comment by alanh · 2023-01-04 · in Ruby 3.2.0 is from another dimension
  30. …[3] https://mnt.io/2021/10/04/i-leave-wasmer/ [4] https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer/issues/956 [5] https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/issues/3
    comment by TobyTheDog123 · 2022-12-02 · in Wasmer takes WebAssembly libraries mainstream with WAI
  31. …appears that all of the specific proposals are still early stage and far from being standardized ( https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/blob/main/Proposals.md ). For the API, Extism provides a C API/ABI that can be called through FFI, but…
    comment by haberman · 2022-12-01 · in Extism: Make all software programmable with WebAssembly
  32. …[2] https://www.assemblyscript.org/standards-objections.html [3] https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/issues/401
    comment by TobyTheDog123 · 2022-11-23 · in Wasmer 3.0
  33. …be super cool (ala webassembly.sh) but the WASI spec is missing a lot of terminal-related things: https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/issues/161 [1]: https://github.com/guregu/trealla-js
    comment by grose · 2022-10-10 · in Show HN: I built a WASI playground for running CLI binaries in the browser
  34. I'm confused. Searching for WASI leads me here https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI Which has no links to any readable docs or specs. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
    comment by pronlover723 · 2022-10-10 · in Show HN: I built a WASI playground for running CLI binaries in the browser
  35. …(which I find a bit easier to skim than the actual specification). Here's the actual WASI spec: https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/blob/main/phases/snapsho... You'll find it matches the file I linked. Search for "POSIX" or "errno".
    comment by IshKebab · 2022-09-20 · in Wasmtime 1.0
  36. …library implementation on top of WASI - which itself is more low-level and less POSIX-like. https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI
    comment by denisw · 2022-09-20 · in Wasmtime 1.0
  37. …Security? Web interop? Multi-language? Professional conduct? Giggles through rose-colored glasses. https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/issues/401 —the AS guy
    comment by dcode · 2022-08-23 · in Assemblyscript Removes WASI Support
  38. old topic: https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/issues/401#issue-8177488... The problem with WASI is that it is a some kind of truncated copy of CloudABI and POSIX. With all the goodies like abbreviated error codes like "fbig", "idrm",…
    comment by maxgraey · 2022-08-23 · in Assemblyscript Removes WASI Support
  39. …and once sockets get standardised you will be able to use the standard library types instead. [0]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/pull/312
    comment by bkolobara · 2022-06-09 · in Rust without the async (hard) part
  40. …harassment, etc.) and you're having a hard time understanding what they are doing and why. [0] https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/issues/3#issuecomment-71...
    comment by slimsag · 2022-03-24 · in Wasmer and Trademarks
  41. …[2]: https://tsdr.uspto.gov/documentviewer?caseId=sn88703780&docI... [3]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/issues/3#issuecomment-71...
    comment by a27a2b · 2022-03-02 · in Show HN: WAPM – WebAssembly Package Manager
  42. …been updated for two months, with prior to that folks asking is the work even happening still [0] https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/issues/370
    comment by playcache · 2022-02-01 · in Pay attention to WebAssembly
  43. …linux binary and converting it to wasm severely downgrades the security of it. * real sockets/TLS - https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/pull/312 && https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/issues/71 ? yes, I understand some people have…
    comment by eyberg · 2022-01-21 · in WebAssembly: The New Kubernetes?
  44. https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/issues/53
    comment by hunterb123 · 2021-10-26 · in Porting WebGL Shaders to WebGPU
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    WASI IPC Module – Issue 49 – WebAssembly/WASI
    story by octopoc · 2021-08-07 · 0 comments
  46. …as imports. That looses the benefit of a standard API, but is fine for custom deployments. [1] https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/pull/312 [2] https://radu-matei.com/blog/towards-sockets-networking-wasi/
    comment by the_duke · 2021-01-05 · in Wasmer 1.0
  47. …the market for Brave, a WASI implementation supporting a SQLite VFS [2] extension has my vote. [1] https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI [2] https://www.sqlite.org/vfs.html
    comment by sradman · 2020-12-16 · in Firefox Was Always Enough
  48. …[1] https://i.imgur.com/TPBH9EH.png [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19515476 [3] https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/issues/3#issuecomment-71...
    comment by reitzensteinm · 2020-10-27 · in Fastly hires entire Wasmtime team from Mozilla
  49. I thought so too until I saw the existing logo... https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/blob/master/WASI.png
    comment by olalonde · 2020-10-26 · in Fastly hires entire Wasmtime team from Mozilla
  50. …were driven by our lawyers” (and what came after that was even more shameless if you ask me): https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/issues/3#issuecomment-71... Given that context, I’d say the gp comment (especially the “personal bias” part)…
    comment by oefrha · 2020-10-26 · in Fastly hires entire Wasmtime team from Mozilla