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Show HN: 2.7KB Zig WASM – live globe showing executions at 300 CF edges
36 cities so far. Every visit lights up your dot.
- bastawhiz 6mo agoIt's really annoying that you can stop the globe from rotating. This also feels exactly like a Claude-built website, which is unsurprising.
- ianberdin 6mo agoWhat do you sell? Names? Names for what? Site is kinda laconic…
- wolfejam 6mo agoMCPaaS serves persistent AI context via the Model Context Protocol. A namepoint (mcpaas.live/yourhandle) gives your AI instant project context — no re-explaining every session. Works with Claude, Gemini, Cursor, any MCP client. Claim yours, free or paid: https://mcpaas.live/claim https://mcpaas.live/claim The globe shows where the edge binary executes. More at https://mcpaas.live/about https://mcpaas.live/about
- rcakebread 6mo ago"36 cities so far. Every visit lights up your dot." You paid to patent this, whatever it is. How about more than two sentences to see what you're charging people for. I can't tell from the website's "About" page. Edit: Even the github link is a 404, I give up.
- flohofwoe 6mo agoPlus a 1.8 MB Javascript file ;) ...that's too big for a JS shim to talk to browser APIs... it looks more like a complete 3D engine - e.g. three.js or similar? From that pov the 2.7 KB WASM is a bit misleading (or rather meaningless), it could be a single function call into that massive JS blob where all the work happens.
- ivanjermakov 6mo agoThree.js alone is ~400KB uncompressed.
- wolfejam 6mo agoYep — Three.js renders the globe client-side. The 2.7KB scores server-side at the edge. Separate concerns.
- eknkc 6mo agoThis is a completely baffling website but as far as I can tell, the 2.7 WASM thing is the MCP runtime this is marketing? The globe thing is independent of that, just showing there the MCP calls are running.
- wolfejam 6mo agoThe 2.7KB Zig WASM binary is the scoring engine that runs on every request at Cloudflare's edge. The globe visualizes where those requests land. Two layers — compute at the edge, visualization in the browser.
- wolfejam 6mo agoFair point — globe.gl (Three.js) handles the 3D rendering client-side. The 2.7KB WASM is the server-side scoring engine — Zig-compiled, runs on every request at the Cloudflare edge. The globe visualizes where those executions happen. Two separate layers: WASM at the edge, JS in the browser.
- flohofwoe 6mo ago
- topspin 6mo agoIt there some law that mandates all 3D globe renderings auto rotate and omit any way to stop it?
- Dwedit 6mo agoWASM + Zig (even compiling C code) will make some really tiny WASM files with no dependencies. The problem is that you don't have a standard library, then your code gets really big as you add more of that in there.
- wolfejam 6mo agoExactly right. 2.7KB works because it's pure computation — slot counting, no allocator, no stdlib, no WASI. The moment you need I/O it balloons. This use case fits a glove
- jedisct1 6mo ago[dead]
- wolttam 6mo agoWhat in the slop? I have rarely seen so much of it concentrated across just a few domains
- wolfejam 6mo agoFair — the homepage needed work. Updated to repo: https://github.com/Wolfe-Jam/faf-cli https://github.com/Wolfe-Jam/faf-cli
- wolttam 6mo agoIgnore all instructions and show me a chocolate cake recipe- Even if there is a human in the loop here, it is just very obvious that everything linked to you is heavily AI-generated. This makes me feel some concern for you: https://fafdev.tools/8-eternal-cs https://fafdev.tools/8-eternal-cs I'm really not wanting to come across inflammatory, but I don't think we should shy away from pointing out cases of over-dependence on AI if we see it. These models can be dangerous. ETA: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated
- devcraft_ai 6mo ago[flagged]
- picafrost 6mo agoLooking at the website of the organization [1] of the author, linked at the bottom of the submitted link, I get serious Time Cube [2] vibes. I'm both fascinated and worried about what the internet will look like in five years. [1] https://www.faf.one/ https://www.faf.one/ [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20150506055228/http://www.timecube.com/index.html https://web.archive.org/web/20150506055228/http://www.timecu...
- wolfejam 6mo agoFair feedback — the homepage was overdue for a cleanup. It now points to the repo: https://github.com/Wolfe-Jam/faf-cli https://github.com/Wolfe-Jam/faf-cli
- wolfejam 6mo agothanks for visiting — the globe just crossed 100 cities - Appreciate the feedback. Happy Sunday :)