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FTL: A new operating system for clouds

202 points · 77 comments · romac

  1. comboy · · focus · HN ↗
    I just make agents generate assembly for my app and my hardware and boot directly into that.
    1. rfgplk · · focus · HN ↗
      Is this written in jest? Because it&#x27;s very likely where the future of computing is heading. See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=kZRE7HIO3vk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=kZRE7HIO3vk; a lot of people were nagging on Casey because he implied that software was more efficient back when everyone &quot;wrote their own kernel&quot; and how &quot;impossible it would be today&quot;. He even mentions how awesome it could be if every game came with it&#x27;s own bootable USB. Now back then it truly was unthinkable, but today we&#x27;re edging ever closer to that reality.

      For instance, I have a working microkernel written in a Lisp dialect for embedded devices. Compiled to native machine code. 100% LLM generated. ~70k loc. In benchmarks it outperforms most other embedded kernel projects by a significant margin. And it only took around ~$1500 in tokens (API costs all included).

      1. teddyh · · focus · HN ↗
        &gt; He even mentions how awesome it could be if every game came with it&#x27;s own bootable USB. Now back then it truly was unthinkable,

        Not only was it thinkable, it was common: &lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;w&#x2F;index.php?title=List_of_self-booting_IBM_PC_compatible_games&amp;oldid=1367389021" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;w&#x2F;index.php?title=List_of_self-boot...&gt;

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