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Comment by saagarjha | Hacker News Reader

Unfortunately a Java applet, but the guide was interesting (click the “Next” near the top).

Try this Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cheerpj-applet-run... [Full disclosure: the extension is made by the company I work for]

I missed that link and was coming here to complain about the lack of example code.

EDIT - how does one actually run a Java applet nowadays? Which browsers still support that integration?

I did the following to run it locally instead:

  cd $(mktemp -d)
  wget http://will.thimbleby.net/misc/misc.jar
  wget http://will.thimbleby.net/misc/bootstrap.misc
  java -jar misc.jar

And then it drops you into a repl. (Add `rlwrap` in front of `java -jar` if cursor movement doesn't work correctly)

It's probably okay with this thing but in general don't do this. "wget totallynotmalware.exe; totallynotmalware.exe".

Note to self: if I wanted to distribute Java malware to the HN crowd this is exactly how I would do it: write a minimalist, nerdy topic that requires an applet to run, knowing that my audience will happily find a work-around, like the above.

Yeah, I'm assuming that people know what they are doing and taking the necessary precautions themselves when running untrusted code. I'm not gonna add "Run this in a virtual machine" every time I mention some software.

But your reminder is good for the newcomers around I guess.

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