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Re:Show HN: 2.7KB Zig WASM – live globe showing executions a... by flohofwoe on Sunday March 29, 2026 @10:32AM (#47563490)
Plus 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.

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Re:Show HN: 2.7KB Zig WASM – live globe showing executions a... by wolfejam on Sunday March 29, 2026 @10:46AM (#47563626)
Fair 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.

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Re:Show HN: 2.7KB Zig WASM – live globe showing executions a... by flohofwoe on Sunday March 29, 2026 @11:15AM (#47563877)
Ah ok, might have made more sense to link to the about page tbh, but that probably would have looked too obviously like an advertisement ;)
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Re:Show HN: 2.7KB Zig WASM – live globe showing executions a... by wolfejam on Sunday March 29, 2026 @11:23AM (#47563932)
just trying to show the zig-wasm binary and CF edge :)
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Re:Show HN: 2.7KB Zig WASM – live globe showing executions a... by eknkc on Sunday March 29, 2026 @10:46AM (#47563622)
This 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.
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Re:Show HN: 2.7KB Zig WASM – live globe showing executions a... by wolfejam on Sunday March 29, 2026 @11:03AM (#47563773)
The 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.
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Re:Show HN: 2.7KB Zig WASM – live globe showing executions a... by ivanjermakov on Sunday March 29, 2026 @10:43AM (#47563591)
Three.js alone is ~400KB uncompressed.
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Re:Show HN: 2.7KB Zig WASM – live globe showing executions a... by wolfejam on Sunday March 29, 2026 @11:06AM (#47563808)
Yep — Three.js renders the globe client-side. The 2.7KB scores server-side at the edge. Separate concerns.
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