Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderThis is demonstrative of the advantages of the new low-level APIs being added to JavaScript to work efficiently with binary data. Fabrice uses this to implement an x86 interpreter -- it could not be done efficiently without typed arrays. However, it is still slow -- imagine what kind of advances could be made if a common bytecode was established that would be JIT'd by the JavaScript VM, and could be output directly by the emulator. This is why so many…
Out of interest I tried running my Primes benchmark [1] on both the x86_64 and x86 Alpine and the riscv64 Buildroot, both in Chrome on M1 Mac Mini. Both are 2nd run so that all needed code is already cached locally. x86_64: localhost:~# time gcc -O primes.c -o primes real 0m 3.18s user 0m 1.30s sys 0m 1.47s localhost:~# time ./primes Starting run 3713160 primes found in 456995 ms 245 bytes of code in countPrimes() real 7m 37.97s user 7m…
It takes less time to boot Linux in Chrome on my laptop than it takes Reddit to load a discussion on my phone. That's pretty amazing. Not sure which is more amazing: How slow Reddit mobile is or how fast Linux boots in JS.
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 4
- Total points
- 2737
- Total comments
- 487
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-05-17 | Boot a linux kernel right inside your browser. First breakout · Best thread | neopanz | 1820 | 239 |
| 2015-10-07 | Js Linux: A PC Emulator in JavaScript (Booting Linux in the Browser) | as1ndu | 1 | 0 |
| 2017-09-18 | JSLinux – Run Linux or other Operating Systems in your browser | begoon | 312 | 83 |
| 2019-01-15 | Run X Window or Windows 2000 in the browser | colinprince | 3 | 0 |
| 2019-07-12 | JSLinux: Run Linux Inside the BrowserHall induction | pionerkotik | 3 | 0 |
| 2019-11-04 | JSLinux Run Linux or Other Operating Systems in the Browser | type0 | 3 | 0 |
| 2019-11-24 | Jslinux (2018) | pmoriarty | 212 | 28 |
| 2023-03-08 | Boot Alpine Linux/Windows/FreeDOS from the Browser | phneutral26 | 1 | 0 |
| 2023-04-18 | JSLinux – Linux/DOS in the Browser | canbus | 2 | 0 |
| 2026-03-09 | JSLinux Now Supports x86_64Latest 20+ point return | TechTechTech | 380 | 137 |