lachlan-sneff

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by lachlan-sneff 8y ago
That's very interesting. Could you share more of how you envision this system working?
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by lachlan-sneff 8y ago
In rust, integer overflows are defined to be wrapping, which is how it works automatically on essentially every architecture Rust supports.
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Ask HN: What's the most difficult part of learning to program?
18 points by lachlan-sneff 8y ago|22 comments
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The End of the Beginning for Nebulet(lsneff.me)
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Nebulet – More answers to questions that you may or may not have asked(lsneff.me)
1 points by lachlan-sneff 8y ago|0 comments
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by lachlan-sneff 8y ago
As someone who is a student, I'm working on writing a new-kind of operating system this summer for GSoC. I find it pretty interesting :)
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by lachlan-sneff 8y ago
Yep, almost done though!
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by lachlan-sneff 8y ago
An earlier version of nebulet was named "Metal OS".
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by lachlan-sneff 8y ago
WebAssembly is inherently simpler to compile and there is no complex interaction between the runtime and the SIP once compiled, like there is in v8.
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by lachlan-sneff 8y ago
The great thing about using a transparently compiled isa is that there is no way you can get arbitary code execution. The only things exposed to the outside will be SIPs and if you exploit one of those, the most you can do with it is make i
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by lachlan-sneff 8y ago
Yeah, no, we don't. I just find time for the things I love.
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Nebulet: A microkernel that runs WebAssembly in Ring 0(github.com)
248 points by lachlan-sneff 8y ago|125 comments
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Why Nebulet?(lsneff.me)
3 points by lachlan-sneff 8y ago|0 comments
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by lachlan-sneff 8y ago
People use electric skateboards for transportation, not to do tricks.
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A microkernel that implements a WebAssembly “usermode” that runs in Ring 0(github.com)
4 points by lachlan-sneff 9y ago|0 comments