Numax
a portable runtime for distributed apps
Details
- External ID
- 48563070
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- Numax
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- June 16, 2026
- Cohort
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- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.31420765027322406
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Hi, over the past few months I've been working on this project: Numax is a small Rust runtime that does three things: it runs WebAssembly modules in a sandbox, has a built-in local key-value store, and syncs everything across nodes with CRDTs and gossip. Basically, you write a wasm module, run it on two machines, and they converge (I hope !). It's a decentralized system... I hope someone finds it interesting! There's a whitepaper I've put a lot into, and I think the code isn't bad either! I believe there's still room in this world for software that's fun and well made, and while building Numax I had a great time! I love Numax and I love software. Thanks to anyone who'll spend a bit of their time even just to open the repo and take a look!
Enrichment
- Theme
- lightweight and on-device AI runtimes
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- runtime for distributed applications
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Numax is a distributed systems runtime in Rust integrating a WASM sandbox, embedded key-value storage, and CRDTs over a peer-to-peer gossip network.
What it would actually take: The system requires Rust, Wasmtime/Wasmer runtime embedding, a storage engine (like RocksDB or Sled), and custom implementations of gossip protocols (like PlumTree or SWIM) combined with state-based or operation-based CRDTs. The hard challenge is ensuring deterministic WASM execution, formal convergence guarantees in asynchronous networks under partition, and memory safety at low-level runtime boundaries.
Discussion
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