NIGHTRUN Boots a PC Directly Into an LLM — UEFI-Resident Rust, No Operating System Underneath

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hardrave/NIGHTRUN (created 2026-07-27, 109 stars) is a UEFI-resident Rust runtime that starts an LLM at boot with no OS beneath it, tagged for llama.cpp, Ollama, LLM and VLM workloads. It is a proof of concept — a single push on the creation day and no updates since — but it stakes out the extreme end of the local-inference trend: removing the operating system from the inference path entirely. Single-source and unvalidated by third parties, so treat the performance implications as unproven.