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65 titles from 64 authors in the last 30 days, with 61 distinct links and 22 Show HN.

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• Show HN: Red Alert 2 Runtime in the Browser – With Yuri's and Multiplayer · score 8.3

  RA2 VM runs the original Red Alert 2 and Yuri's Revenge executables directly in the browser using v86 x86 emulation, custom firmware, and a Win32/DirectX compatibility layer, without booting Windows. It supports campaigns, skirmish, save/load, multiplayer via a WebSocket relay, and even experimental AI agent control. This is a technically ambitious project that bypasses engine reimplementation by emulating the original game binaries, enabling niche features like Mental Omega support while raising legal distribution questions.

• Show HN: Cross-platform embeddable UI runtime using QuickJS and Skia · score 8.0

  JSUI is a cross-platform embeddable UI runtime that lets you write React Native code and render it via QuickJS, Yoga, and Skia directly inside game engines or as standalone apps. It stands out by targeting game UI specifically, offering GPU-accelerated rendering, native data binding, and WebAssembly support, which fills a gap between heavyweight webviews and inflexible engine UI tools.

• Show HN: Submilli – runtime with semantic permissions for agents that write code · score 7.8

  Submilli is a Rust-based runtime that executes agent-generated TypeScript code in WebAssembly with a semantic permission model called Blueprints. It enforces fine-grained, per-operation rules (e.g., refund limits per customer tier) outside the model's control, with built-in packages, audit trails, and resource limits. This fills a critical security gap for business agents that generate code.

• Show HN: Kiri – a tiny container runtime for macOS, Windows and Rust · score 7.3

  Kiri is a lightweight container runtime for macOS, Windows, and Linux written in Rust that replaces Docker Desktop and OrbStack by running containers in a small Linux VM (or directly on the kernel for Linux) and exposing the Docker Engine API. It claims dramatically faster container startup (~2.5 ms), low memory footprint (~15 MB daemon), and compatibility with Docker CLI, Compose, and buildx, plus extras like local domains and a one-command Kubernetes cluster.

Recent titles

1. The 5BSD OS introduces explicit capability-oriented runtime to the Unix family
   2026-11-04 · pretalx.com · HN discussion
2. Show HN: Agent server with framework, IDE, runtime, router and state management
   2026-11-03 · search2o.com · HN discussion
3. Show HN: Kiri – a tiny container runtime for macOS, Windows and Rust
   2026-11-03 · github.com · HN discussion
4. Show HN: Traccia – Vendor-neutral runtime control for AI agents
   2026-11-03 · github.com · HN discussion
5. Show HN: Kiri – an open-source container runtime in Rust, Docker run in 18 ms
   2026-11-03 · HN discussion
6. ChatGPT Web as an Agent Runtime
   2026-11-03 · akshith.io · HN discussion
7. Show HN: A battery runtime calculator for camping and off-grid loads
   2026-11-02 · camppowercalc.com · HN discussion
8. Show HN: Othismo, a Runtime for Sandboxed Objects
   2026-10-31 · othismo.com · HN discussion
9. Show HN: Maclet – A native macOS container runtime written from scratch in Rust
   2026-10-31 · github.com · HN discussion
10. The modern TypeScript runtime for serious developers
    2026-10-31 · ende.sh · HN discussion
11. The Web Can't Afford a JavaScript Runtime Monoculture
    2026-10-30 · redmonk.com · HN discussion
12. Show HN: phpClaw – AI agent runtime for PHP with tools, memory and guards
    2026-10-29 · github.com · HN discussion
13. Show HN: TaintWall – a runtime firewall against injected runbook steps
    2026-10-29 · github.com · HN discussion
14. Nono: Agent Runtime Security
    2026-10-29 · nono.sh · HN discussion
15. Show HN: Cross-platform embeddable UI runtime using QuickJS and Skia
    2026-10-28 · orktes.github.io · HN discussion
16. I gave coding agents runtime vision so they stop guessing from static source
    2026-10-27 · hypersetai.com · HN discussion
17. Static reasoning can't prove runtime behavior: benchmark of AI PR reviewers
    2026-10-27 · heal.dev · HN discussion
18. Infinity: A runtime for extreme agent concurrency
    2026-10-24 · aws.amazon.com · HN discussion
19. Ritmo: Type-safe ECS runtime for TypeScript
    2026-10-23 · ritmo.typeonce.dev · HN discussion
20. Show HN: Distributed, deterministically secure agentic swarm runtime. Enclawed
    2026-10-23 · zenodo.org · HN discussion
21. Anyctr – container runtime CLI gateway, use any container runtime in any project
    2026-10-23 · github.com · HN discussion
22. Nvidia Sentry: Secure AI Agents at Runtime
    2026-10-23 · developer.nvidia.com · HN discussion
23. Babashka – Fast native Clojure scripting runtime
    2026-10-23 · babashka.org · HN discussion
24. I wrote a Windows runtime from scratch to run PC VR games on Apple Silicon
    2026-10-22 · github.com · HN discussion
25. Databricks launches AI Runtime for managed GPU training on enterprise data
    2026-10-22 · databricks.com · HN discussion
26. Acquiring TLS Certificates at Runtime
    2026-10-21 · dushed.com · HN discussion
27. Archestra 1.4: OpenAPPA and Self Hosted Runtime for Claude Code and Codex
    2026-10-21 · github.com · HN discussion
28. Maxwell gives sub-optimal code a runtime glow-up
    2026-10-21 · theregister.com · HN discussion
29. SoloMCN – Claude Code as the runtime for a one-person video studio
    2026-10-20 · github.com · HN discussion
30. Show HN: Yana – A local-first, human-governed AI runtime and IDE in Rust
    2026-10-20 · github.com · HN discussion

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