Xiaomi MiMo Reasoning Model (github.com)

Before long you'll have a different LLM embedded in each of a series of cells, and they'll each have an opinion on what you are doing elsewhere in the sheet, and your One True Trusted Overview LLM (named OTTO) will survey them and take a vote and get back to you.

nogajun · 6h ago

Linux can run on Excel, but not Excel on Linux.

grishka · 3h ago

Excel, at least old versions, does run on Linux using Wine.

Aardwolf · 1h ago

Then it may be possible to run Excel on Linux in Excel

xattt · 19m ago

I’d like to see bare-metal Excel.

tinktank · 7h ago

This is the insanity that I miss.

goodboyjojo · 1h ago

linux and the hit game doom are the things hackers always put on something first. any eletronic

dmitrygr · 7h ago

“ The emulator is built as a seperate dll which is loaded by the VBA macro. The VBA macro calls the emulator in the dll and gets the output and writes it into the cells in the spreadsheet. ”

Not really in excel. Excel is just the console. Emulator is a native DLL

yesco · 10m ago

I still think this is pretty neat even if it's just acting like the console.

qwertox · 1h ago

I was expecting something like the cells being used as registers and the computer being implemented in the spreadsheet itself. Loading an emulator via a DLL and using the spreadsheet as a line oriented display feels like cheating.

zipping1549 · 5h ago

Still funny

AshamedCaptain · 2h ago

By the same logic I can also put a crappy emulator in a dll and make notepad load it via a hook. Linux on notepad.exe. should I make that into a HN post too?

Now that I mention it, I think someone already posted that on HN...

Wowfunhappy · 1h ago

It's not Linux, but here's DOOM in Notepad:

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/10/how-to-get-doom-runni...

padjo · 1h ago

Coulda shoulda woulda…

qwertox · 1h ago

We've seen better on HN. Much better.

anthk · 1h ago

Ditto with a ZMachine being called from a VIM plugin...

A native one would be emulating a DOS 8086 PC with PostScript (some people already did a ZMachine emulator).

jayd16 · 6h ago

Excshell

ChocolateGod · 5h ago

Execell

ivolimmen · 2h ago

Question remains: can you run Windows in LibreOffice under Linux?

zombot · 26m ago

I was about to say, "If it can run Doom...", but actually the deamons in Windows are worse and even more hellish than those in Doom.

valorzard · 6h ago

Would this same trick work on LibreOffice Calc?

shakna · 5h ago

Probably not. It calls out to a DLL library for most of the work. One that, unfortunately, is 32bit.

Libre Calc can load 64bit Excel plugins, but not 32bit (at the moment).

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padde · 5h ago

Any practical use cases come to mind? Could you actually interact from Excel cells with Linux userspace, e.g. running a cell's value through a bash script as if applying a formula?

necovek · 8h ago

It runs on neither MacOS nor Excel cloud though, as it depends on a Windows DLL.

pjmlp · 4h ago

Microsoft 365 is the reason why the new add-in model is focused on Web technologies, and mostly deprecated going forward for new forward.

p_ing · 23m ago

It's focused on web tech as COM add-ins are a huge source of security and instability in Office apps. It's also more flexible for developers as they can modify the backend without having to update the client and the deployment model is significantly easier for admins.

jeroenhd · 4h ago

On the other hand, if you can get it to work in the new O365 architecture using whatever JS API they're exposing now, you can call it "cloud-based" or maybe even "serverless".

yjftsjthsd-h · 7h ago

Wouldn't help with cloud of course, but there's WINE for macOS, isn't there? Or does that version of Excel not allow loading binary libraries such that you could hand it a DLL if WINE translated it?

nxobject · 7h ago

mini-rv32ima is incredibly compact -- I imagine a translation to VBA might not be too hard.

tolien · 3h ago

Next step is to get Doom working on it :-)

userbinator · 8h ago

Unfortunately it doesn't seem possible to run WINE in it, and thus another Excel inside that.

notpushkin · 3h ago

Can it run Lotus 1-2-3, though? https://github.com/taviso/123elf

anthk · 1h ago

qemu-i386->export X with serial->SLIP->TCPIP->wine with X exported->Excel

Dog slow, but Turing complete.

apexalpha · 2h ago

Wow! We are in awe that you managed to run Linux on a database tool designed to query Bigdata tables sharded over 72 sheets.
Very impressive.
Greetings,

Deloitte.

ngcazz · 4h ago

I thought for a second this would be about the use of a spreadsheet as a general computation device.

aussieguy1234 · 5h ago

Excel > Linux > Wine > Excel...to infinity?

nailer · 8h ago

I just posted the ‘doom on a lightning adapter’ story, and saw this in submissions. I’ll have to tip my hat to the better bizarre ‘X on Y’ post. You win this time, radeeyate.

dheatov · 1h ago

I support you to one up them with `Lightning adapter on Excel`