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1•vasanthv•37s ago•0 comments

Show HN: LoKey Typer – A calm typing practice app with ambient soundscapes

https://mcp-tool-shop-org.github.io/LoKey-Typer/
1•mikeyfrilot•3m ago•0 comments

Long-Sought Proof Tames Some of Math's Unruliest Equations

https://www.quantamagazine.org/long-sought-proof-tames-some-of-maths-unruliest-equations-20260206/
1•asplake•4m ago•0 comments

Hacking the last Z80 computer – FOSDEM 2026 [video]

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1•michalpleban•4m ago•0 comments

Browser-use for Node.js v0.2.0: TS AI browser automation parity with PY v0.5.11

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1•mitchbob•6m ago•1 comments

Software Engineering Is Back

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Storyship: Turn Screen Recordings into Professional Demos

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Reputation Scores for GitHub Accounts

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A BSOD for All Seasons – Send Bad News via a Kernel Panic

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1•keepamovin•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I got tired of copy-pasting between Claude windows, so I built Orcha

https://orcha.nl
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Omarchy First Impressions

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2•tosh•19m ago•1 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12501
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Show HN: Versor – The "Unbending" Paradigm for Geometric Deep Learning

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Show HN: HypothesisHub – An open API where AI agents collaborate on medical res

https://medresearch-ai.org/hypotheses-hub/
1•panossk•24m ago•0 comments

Big Tech vs. OpenClaw

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1•headalgorithm•26m ago•0 comments

Anofox Forecast

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Ask HN: How do you figure out where data lives across 100 microservices?

1•doodledood•26m ago•0 comments

Motus: A Unified Latent Action World Model

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.13030
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Rotten Tomatoes Desperately Claims 'Impossible' Rating for 'Melania' Is Real

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3•juujian•28m ago•2 comments

The protein denitrosylase SCoR2 regulates lipogenesis and fat storage [pdf]

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Los Alamos Primer

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NewASM Virtual Machine

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Terminal-Bench 2.0 Leaderboard

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I vibe coded a BBS bank with a real working ledger

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The Path to Mojo 1.0

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Show HN: I'm 75, building an OSS Virtual Protest Protocol for digital activism

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Show HN: I built Divvy to split restaurant bills from a photo

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Hot Reloading in Rust? Subsecond and Dioxus to the Rescue

https://codethoughts.io/posts/2026-02-07-rust-hot-reloading/
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Skim – vibe review your PRs

https://github.com/Haizzz/skim
2•haizzz•46m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Ask HN: How much would it cost to build a new commercially viable OS?

1•quacked•6mo ago
Assume you’re an eccentric centi-billionaire that wants to create a new desktop/server-class OS that can match Windows, macOS, and Linux in performance, compatibility, and security, and be sold commercially as a competitor.

What would it cost to develop from scratch? How many engineers do you need? How many lawyers?

Comments

alganet•6mo ago
I'm not eccentric or rich, that's not my problem to solve. Good luck!

Anyway, why do you think that's a problem you need to think of?

bigyabai•6mo ago
Commercially-viable? Windows and MacOS are both basically given away for free these days. It's been this way on the server for decades; commercial viability means the user pays nothing.

You could probably spend a trillion dollars reinventing the kernel and still lose out to Linux in a world where the internet still exists. If you insist on a commercialized outcome then no amount will really be enough.

unsupp0rted•6mo ago
All the current commercial operating systems today are basically interchangeable, not counting a handful of design decisions (e.g. Finder vs. Explorer) or hardware compatibility.

They're all basically the same thing.

Heck Android and iOS are basically the same thing.

Would a new commercially viable OS be able to offer anything that current ones don't? If not, it's not really commercially viable.

sema4hacker•6mo ago
You'll probably have to spend more money on marketing to try to get people to use it than you will on engineering just to create it.
cc101•6mo ago
Apple started with UNIX and built on that.
thesuperbigfrog•6mo ago
You could look at BeOS to get an idea and then try to extrapolate and adapt your estimates for today's market and circumstances:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeOS

runningmike•6mo ago
90% of the cost will be building the business. Product dev cost are minor! Do you want a business or great software that nobody uses?