Alpha preview: expect breaking changes and incomplete functionality. macOS and Linux only; on Windows we suggestWSL. A ghost in your shell.Ante is a self-contained coding agent that lives in your terminal and self-organizes. One ~15MB Rust binary fromAntigma Labs, zero runtime dependencies, built to get the most out of any model. It works like Claude … Devamını oku
Exploiting System Management Mode with a very very very very very very very long interrupt. It turns out that you can break SMM — the secure, ultra privileged execution environment running invisibly in the background of every x86 CPU — with nothing more than an obscenely long-running machine instruction. SMM requires that all cores are … Devamını oku
A 35-year-old Mars Bar has been found during a house clearance – and the discovery has gone viral amid claims it highlights the effect of “shrinkflation”. The chocolate bar with a best-before date of 1991 was found during a clear-out of a house in Scunthorpe. Victoria Gordon, who runs the cleaning service, posted a photo … Devamını oku
These release notes are optimized for viewing inside Squeak, as they contain a lot of interactive examples. On this page, interactive links open in SqueakJS, which is a browser-based Smalltalk VM with some limitations. For the best experience, download Squeak and read the release notes there. *** Squeak 6.1 “Vanessa” Release Notes *** As Squeak … Devamını oku
In the vast ocean of government datasets that I trawl through, I am always on the lookout for moments where people express themselves, leaving behind their own little datum of personality. These tiny expressions of creativity show up all over public datasets. Air traffic controllers choosefunny namesfor airplane navigation waypoints.Rejected vanitylicense plateregistrations turn up in … Devamını oku
Andrew Oram wrote a two-part series for the Linux Professional Institute asking why programming languages rise and fall (partsoneandtwo.) It says, roughly, that C, C++, and JavaScript are immortal (for now!), with Java a maybe; COBOL, FORTRAN, BASIC, and Perl lived respectable lives and got sent upstate to retire on a farm; Pascal, Objective-C, PL/I, … Devamını oku
Actually tail calls in C have not been around forever. The C calling convention has been that the callee does not remove any stuff the caller has put on the stack. The caller could see the declarationint f();, the actual call could have n>0 arguments, and the actual function could have m≤n parameters. That would … Devamını oku
Today, we’re introducing Muse Glimmer, the next model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, and open sourcing the model weights under a permissive Apache 2.0 license. Muse Glimmer is a 30-billion-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows. It’s small enough to run on a Mac or PC with a single consumer GPU, enabling use cases that range from local agents … Devamını oku
Recently, I came acrossthispost about different styles of VM dispatch as I was searching for ways to improve myternaryproject. I had heard of tail-call interpretation, though my original source of inspiration took some time for me to re-find. This post, however, gave an excellent breakdown about several different styles of VM dispatch in Scala. I … Devamını oku
Running Android ARM64 VR APKs on Apple Vision Pro, no JIT required! klepton-ldtranslates Android.solibraries into loadable Apple.dyliband.frameworklibraries, which then link into the Klepton runtime. Klepton currently focuses on Java-thin applications only (no ART, no JVM). For graphics, GLES 3.2 is translated to a vendored ANGLE GLES 3.0 (with its Metal backend), and Vulkan is translated … Devamını oku