Show HN: A Unix environment in a single HTML file (420 KB)

6 comments

• $richmans 18 hours ago

  I would not call this a unix environment. It does not run elf binaries. It does not have a kernel. All of the commands are vibecode-reimplementations in typescript.

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  • $cf100clunk 18 hours ago

    Yep, the title of the OP is misleading that way.

• $TekMol 18 hours ago

      P.S. `curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash` works.
      You can run real Claude Code and it can use Shiro's tools
      like a normal Linux system.
  

  Are you sure? I am getting this:

      user@shiro:~$ curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash
      Installing Claude Code...
      Installing packages globally...
  
      Resolved 1 package(s):
        + @anthropic-ai/claude-code@2.1.45
        22 files extracted
      Created 1 bin symlink(s) in /usr/local/bin
  
      Packages installed globally.
  
      Claude Code installed successfully!
      Run: claude
      user@shiro:~$ claude
  

  Now I get what looks like errors:

      anonymous/q2<@https://shiro.computer/ line 991 > AsyncFunction:57:43
      y/<@https://shiro.computer/ line 991 > AsyncFunction:9:688
      ...and some more like this...
  

  And then I am back on the normal command line.
• $nerdralph 18 hours ago

  The gcc stub surprised me:

    user@shiro:/tmp/hn$ cat main.c
    #include <stdio.h>
    int main()
    {
      printf("Hello\n");
    }
  
    user@shiro:/tmp/hn$ cc main.c -o main; ./main
    Hello, World!
  
    user@shiro:/tmp/hn$ cat main
    #!/bin/sh
    echo 'Hello, World!'

• $dTal 18 hours ago

  gcc seems to be a funny stub that generates an "executable" that prints "Hello, World!" if the input file fuzzy-matches a hello world, and otherwise prints nothing.

  Seems to be a few simple regexes: to "compile" you need a "main(" with either int or void before, and to trigger the hello world behavior you need printf( and a "hello" inside quotes. But that seems to be it:

    void main(
    //printf(" hello"

• $reconnecting 18 hours ago

  > I built a browser-native Unix environment

  On GitHub, it says Claude built it.