A Desktop Made for One
19 points by xngbuilds 2 hours ago | 5 comments

jstanley 2 minutes ago
Why did you choose to have Claude write it in assembly language?

There are big benefits to using a language that has good static analysis with LLMs.

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robotresearcher 21 minutes ago
I’m inspired by the message.

On this software itself: I’d like to know how this feels to use. It’s so very lightweight. Does it feel categorically different to what we are used to?

One of the things I miss about the 1980s home computers is that they booted into a usable command line in a handful of seconds, from a few KB in ROM. Imagine what today’s HW could do if we’d retained that level of efficiency.

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salvesefu 2 minutes ago
we are there now. depending on boot loader/os combination, one can get to the sub 1-5 sec range, if its cli-only.
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cyberpunk 43 minutes ago
Some screenies and the code at 0…

I struggle to understand why, though.

0: https://github.com/isene/chasm

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gbgarbeb 38 minutes ago
Did OP write this by hand? It reads like language written by a human overfitted on GPT 4o or Claude.
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