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LibreCAD in the Browser - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48755075 - July 2026 (17 comments)
Because it's built on Parasolid, the same geometric kernel as everyone else. With ACIS pretty much out the door, almost all the professional CAD packages are just window dressing on the same CG implementation.
The actual UI still needs a lot of work, but I’ve been focused on the kernel. Fable has helped a lot though Opus was already making great headway.
I’m an OnShape power user going back about ten years, Solidworks before that. I need a CAD system that absolutely works. There is a lot of work to do still, and it still seems impossible to succeed, but I’ve been very happy with where things have been going with it lately.
It’s serverless, local, and browser based. You can load the latest binary from GitHub pages here:
https://sequoia-hope.github.io/waffle-iron/
Click the Assay menu to see the kernel test cases we’ve been using so far. Rapidly closing on 100% support!
Edit: to be precise 'maxed out' means one weekly limit on fable used over those 4 days
I published the actual prompts, and you can see quite clearly that vs Opus which is ok at implementing one big feature, Fable was really able to push through a good chunk of the port. That said it definitely didn't one-shot the port, it also didn't figure out a broken docker sbx sandbox by itself, and also later needed some gaslighting into thinking that the port is not really that hard (by any human measure it was quite hard given the scope of code involved.. The nearly 200MB wasm binary is mostly code afaict..). So there are some clear patterns of how the model was trained and also roughly the scope of task visible in those traces. What I see is that it likes prompts that would take an L4/L5 2-4 weeks to do with Cursor ~2 years ago, more needs some direction and deliberate prompting.
I set up remote tmux access to my phone right at the beginning so I have been advancing it rather continuously during my waking hours. Especially the last few months which have been a very focused push on a new kernel architecture.
uhh what..