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Cottontail, Electrobun 2.0, and Why I Decided to Jian-Yang Anthropic(blackboard.sh)
2 points by yoav 26d ago|0 comments
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by yoav 2mo ago
Electrobun is still zig and doubling down on it
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by yoav 4mo ago
Better in every way
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by yoav 4mo ago
They want us to believe Mythos was so bad it kept shipping segfaults for the last 6 months. And also that it’s capable and trustworthy enough to rewrite the whole runtime in another language flawlessly such that no human needs to code revie
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by yoav 4mo ago
That explains the massive rise in segfaults since they got acquired. It’s approaching being as buggy as claude code which I’ve had to stop using even though I have 6 months free of max because it just crashes and freezes all the time.
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by yoav 4mo ago
Yes he said multiple times including to me yesterday that humans won’t code review as a matter of practice going forward.
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by yoav 4mo ago
Hi. Electrobun creator here. I am building a new JS runtime called cottontail. It’s just a prototype now but the goal is to have a huge standard library powered by native zig such that you don’t need npm. So you’re right that npm is a disas
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Electrobun and WGPU: high perf games and ML in TypeScript(twitter.com)
1 points by yoav 7mo ago|0 comments
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by yoav 7mo ago
The video demos are wild, but also how many people are already shipping apps with Electrobun.
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Electrobun and WGPU: Tiny, cross-platform games and ML with Bun(blackboard.sh)
10 points by yoav 7mo ago|3 comments
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by yoav 7mo ago
Hey HN, Electrobun creator here. Thanks for posting this. We just hit v1 - stable which means I've locked down the architecture. If you run into any bugs or need specific apis that you miss from Electron or Tauri please open Github iss
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Show HN: My 16MB vibe-coded voice cloning app(github.com)
2 points by yoav 7mo ago|0 comments
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Build tiny, fast desktop apps with Bun(blackboard.sh)
2 points by yoav 7mo ago|1 comments
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by yoav 7mo ago
Electrobun is now v1 stable. Ship full cross platform desktop apps in a few MB, ship often with diff updates as small as 14KB.
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by yoav 8mo ago
Fun marketing experiment, but you basically implemented ralph wiggum in the cloud. Claude code locally in a vm and/or with work trees will 1 shot far better without burning cloud infra cash. I’d bet this ends up wasting more money and
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by yoav 1y ago
Are you kidding me? I heard there’s a whole entire planet of Mercury and it’s right next to the biggest fusion reactor in our solar system. We just have to figure out how to nudge Mercury into the Sun… cheaply.
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by yoav 1y ago
You make some very good points but I would argue that many if not all the people you observe “without introspection” have enough to know they’re getting dummer but they don’t care because they never liked the art of writing code itself or p
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by yoav 1y ago
I have been giving it about the same amount of context as a large github/jira/whatever issue. But i’m giving it a goal with a fairly distant milestone where it needs to hit 5-10 smaller milestones and even for advanced ai mixing t
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by yoav 1y ago
I installed claude code (an agentic ai that runs on your machine and can browse and edit code, run the build, and use unix commands) This has largely taken me out of the loop. I give it detailed task like I would a junior engineer, and we d
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by yoav 1y ago
Maybe that’s because the AI pushers are compensating for already not being as good. What happens when other yous start using ai. I suspect they will obv outperform you just in sheer typing speed.
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by yoav 1y ago
I’m building Electrobun ( https://github.com/blackboardsh/electrobun ) It’s an alternative to Electron/Tauri that uses Bun. It has a bsdiff based update mechanism that lets you ship updates as small as 4KB, a custom
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by yoav 2y ago
I don’t want to be _that_ guy but I want this for zig instead of rust.
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by yoav 2y ago
I’m using bun for the main process. Bun runs a zig binary which can call objc/c methods. So the “main native application thread” is technically the zig process. Then there’s all kinds of fancy rpc between bun and zig and between bun an
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by yoav 2y ago
https://www.eggbun.sh/ is built with Electrobun.
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by yoav 2y ago
Hey hn! Author here: Thanks to whoever submitted. Electrobun is in the very early stages. The roadmap is a bit out of date. Here are some highlights: - it’s like Tauri in that it uses the system webview and does not bundle chromium - it’s l
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by yoav 2y ago
The number 1 request I get from people is to add the ability to optionally bundle chromium. I personally prefer the system webview because you don’t have to rush update your app for every chromium security update. And on the web making thin
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by yoav 2y ago
Originally I had it going via browser -> postmessage -> zig -> bun via named pipes and then bun -> zig via named pipe -> js via evaluate js. I’m building https://colab.sh/ with electrobun and that rpc was pre
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by yoav 2y ago
It’s only been a few months but yes it’s a huge undertaking. I’m only picking up steam though and my whole career has been taking on these kinds of huge projects so it’s just getting started.
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by yoav 2y ago
It’s still early and it’s just me working on it so I’m trying to get to stability and then building for (distribute apps to) windows and linux before making all the cli stuff work to let you dev on other OSes. So “no immediate plans” means
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by yoav 2y ago
Native bindings written in c/objc and a zig binary that bun spawns.

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