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Show HN: Toothless – containerized desktop apps launched from the browser

• fiatjaf 12y ago
  How?
  • wwwtyro 12y ago
    In a nutshell, Toothless is a daemon that downloads, installs, and launches Docker containers when it is queried over http.
    • brockrockman 12y ago
      so can XSS start/stop/install/uninstall toothless apps?
• dominotw 12y ago
  is .rocks the new .io ?
  • api 12y ago
    I want .sucks
  • indium21 12y ago
    .rocks doesn't really sound that great. To say "look, I rock!" is a bit .. I don't know. (that said, not to be OT, this app looks interesting though)
    • CmonDev 12y ago
      Anything goes in a war against squatters.
• api 12y ago
  This could be unbelievably useful for some areas you might not have considered much: - Academic stuff, like distributing applications that do advanced modeling or heavy math. - Beta testing to select groups of beta users - GUI rapid iteration with customers! (Big OMG here!)
  • wwwtyro 12y ago
    Great points, thanks for the counsel!
    • api 12y ago
      The academic math niche was one of the only areas Java applets got traction.
  • CmonDev 12y ago
    - not having to deal with HTML quirks; - not having to deal with CSS quirks; - not having to deal with JS quirks;