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How HN took it

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1 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 7 comments about the project. Thread score -0.07.

Idea: 1 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Makes it easy to try commands without downloading or compiling tools

    From 1 comment
    • Please don't get discouraged, people who are rude are just projecting their own troubles onto others. The documentation/tutorial concept is a great idea in my opinion. Whenever I…
      ranger_danger on HN

Objections

  • Unclear purpose and use case from the post

    From 2 comments
    • By no means am I trying to troll here, I'm genuinely asking: why? What purpose does this serve that I'm missing?
      DemiGuru on HN
    • From my perspective it does not tell me how it works, or the give examples of why you would use it? Is it a actual Linux kernel + filesystem under the hood? Or did you just use…
      dummydummy1234 on HN
  • Seems half-baked, with missing documentation on how it works

    From 2 comments
    • I don't see a point to this. Even the post itself it looks half-complete and somewhat broken and of low quality. In fact it appears that this post was subject to an upvote ring…
      rvz on HN
    • From my perspective it does not tell me how it works, or the give examples of why you would use it? Is it a actual Linux kernel + filesystem under the hood? Or did you just use…
      dummydummy1234 on HN
  • Seems like a gimmick

    From 1 comment
    • I don't think there is much use to it other than fun little gimmick. To that end, I could see it being sort of fun to run like "ls" and see the list of post categories, then do…
      hk1337 on HN
  • Suspected upvote ring

    From 1 comment
    • I don't see a point to this. Even the post itself it looks half-complete and somewhat broken and of low quality. In fact it appears that this post was subject to an upvote ring…
      rvz on HN

Requests

  • Explain how it works and its limits (network, non-wasm programs, interrupts)

    From 1 comment
    • From my perspective it does not tell me how it works, or the give examples of why you would use it? Is it a actual Linux kernel + filesystem under the hood? Or did you just use…
      dummydummy1234 on HN
  • Mock repos and preloaded scenarios for git tutorials

    From 1 comment
    • A few weeks ago, I came across a blog post with 5 git tips. I would have loved having an embedded terminal with some mock repos preloaded with the exact situation. That's the…
      raboukhalil on HN

Questions

  • Is it a real Linux kernel or WASM utilities?

    From 1 comment
    • From my perspective it does not tell me how it works, or the give examples of why you would use it? Is it a actual Linux kernel + filesystem under the hood? Or did you just use…
      dummydummy1234 on HN
  • How does this differ from v86 and can bioinformatics tools be excluded?

    From 1 comment
    • How exactly is this different from something like v86? It's definitely easier to embed but also not as customizable. Like if I don't need bioinformatics stuff, can I just exclude…
      randomblock1 on HN

Alternatives named

  • v86

    From 1 comment
    • How exactly is this different from something like v86? It's definitely easier to embed but also not as customizable. Like if I don't need bioinformatics stuff, can I just exclude…
      randomblock1 on HN

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