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Puter.js – Turn the Web into an OS: An Alternative to the Cloud
- SahAssar 2y agoLooks like this was what was supposed to be there: https://web.archive.org/web/20240524233434/https://nj.puter.site/web-os/ https://web.archive.org/web/20240524233434/https://nj.puter.... Sounds very suspect to me... About their GPT-4 api: > No need to sign up for an API key, no need to worry about rate limits, and no need to worry about security. Who is paying for the compute? I'm pretty sure that cannot run locally on my device. What is the security model that makes it so you can say I don't need to worry about it? The same goes for the filesystem and key-value storage they mentioned. If they are just local to the device then how is it an alternative to the cloud? > That's it! No servers, no DevOps, no API keys, no security issues. Saying "no security issues" is ridiculously overconfident and I would like to see the security model that makes them so confident. I tried to run their chat example and just got server errors from the puter app.
- exe34 2y agohow many puters can you nest? I got bored around three, but I think you can keep going. it has a browser capable of hosting itself!
- SahAssar 2y agoWell, the browser runs in a cloud service and streams video back. So it just comes down to when you run out of screenspace or the quality degrades too much: https://imgur.com/a/ypqHcO9 https://imgur.com/a/ypqHcO9
- exe34 2y agooh that makes so much more sense, I thought it was all running in the browser, and wondered how it made socket connections.
- gnabgib 2y agoRelated Show HN: 3 years and 1M users later, I just open-sourced my "Internet OS" [0] (1274 points, 81 days ago, 325 comments) [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39597030 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39597030