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▲You can now run a full Linux operating system inside a 6mb PDF (twitter.com)
51 points by matthewsinclair 4 days ago | 10 comments
eslaught 2 hours ago [-]
Post is new but the original PDF is from 2025:

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42959775

nialv7 33 minutes ago [-]
seems like an account reposting stuff to get attention to advertise his AI stuff.
matthewsinclair 4 days ago [-]
And here's the PDF: https://linux.doompdf.dev/linux.pdf
ge96 7 minutes ago [-]
Is there a writeup somewhere on how it works?

Is it turing complete, runs actual linux binary through wasm or something

karel-3d 15 minutes ago [-]
This is a low effort blogspam. (Twitterspam?)
robinsonb5 4 days ago [-]
Just like Doom-in-a-PDF, this is in equal measure incredibly impressive and utterly horrifying that it's possible.
RajT88 1 hours ago [-]
butwhy.gif
layer8 1 hours ago [-]
People keep being amazed that Turing-complete mechanisms can run any program. ;)
tombert 1 hours ago [-]
Why climb Mount Everest? Because it's there.
cyanydeez 1 hours ago [-]
Can we use it as an AI sandbox!
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