Anos
Infrastructure
microkernel operating system
SHOW HN2026
How HN took it
7 positive, 10 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 20 comments about the project. Thread score +0.24.
Idea: 4 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Good learning resource and docs
From 1 comment
Great project. I highly appreciate the docs, great resource for learning. I haven't read through them yet, but I'm curious what forces the minimum requirement of 256MiB RAM?
miuele on HN
Hacker spirit and inspiring hobby OS work
From 2 comments
Oh boy.. this is a perfect Show HN to wake up to :) With the wild pace of everything going on right now. I can’t be alone feeling it truly captures the hacker spirit. Echoes to…
wamatt on HN> I don't know how useful projects like Anos are any more I get pretty excited when project like Anos come out, I love Anos. Long live all Anos.
AbraKdabra on HN
Objections
Accused of being AI-generated slop despite hand-written claim; maker disputes
From 2 comments
Nah, it's just AI slop, despite OP's "hand-written" protestation.
the_biot on HNIt isn’t, actually.
noone_youknow on HN
Non-POSIX design limits practical use without a compatibility layer
From 1 comment
While not basing the OS on POSIX is good, if you ever want to use it for more than a hobby, i.e. if you ever want to use it for your main personal computer, you will also need a…
adrian_b on HN
Requests
Explain why minimum RAM requirement is 256MiB
From 1 comment
Great project. I highly appreciate the docs, great resource for learning. I haven't read through them yet, but I'm curious what forces the minimum requirement of 256MiB RAM?
miuele on HN
Questions
What is the plan after completion?
From 1 comment
Interesting project! When it is finished, what are your plans for it?
hgpuke on HN
Is it inspired by a particular microkernel design?
From 1 comment
Is this inspired by any particular micro-kernel design? Looking at syscalls.h, it looks like it abstracts the platform details, for example. Is SYSTEM for amd64 source-compatible…
avadodin on HN
Alternatives named
seL4
From 1 comment
There's ideas in here from various other kernels - some of the capability stuff is inspired by (but simpler than) seL4, and the message passing IPC and how I'll avoid priority…
noone_youknow on HN
QNX
From 1 comment
There's ideas in here from various other kernels - some of the capability stuff is inspired by (but simpler than) seL4, and the message passing IPC and how I'll avoid priority…
noone_youknow on HN
Linux
From 1 comment
While not basing the OS on POSIX is good, if you ever want to use it for more than a hobby, i.e. if you ever want to use it for your main personal computer, you will also need a…
adrian_b on HN