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Show HN: GentleOS – A pair of hobby OSes for vintage 32-bit and 16-bit PCs

https://github.com/luke8086/gentleos32
4•luke8086•1h ago
Hello HN,

I've been working on a simple OS for tinkering and running bare metal apps on vintage PCs.

Since I couldn't quite decide whether to target pure 16-bit, or slightly more capable 32-bit machines, I ended up with two separate versions:

- GentleOS/32 (https://github.com/luke8086/gentleos32) works on i386+, requires 4MB of RAM and VGA display supporting 640x480x16 mode or any 256-color VESA mode.

- GentleOS/16 (https://github.com/luke8086/gentleos) works on 80186+, requires less than 192KB of RAM and a CGA display supporting 320x200x4 mode.

You can find more details in the repos.

Powering up a module from the IBM 604: an electronic calculator from 1948

https://www.righto.com/2026/06/ibm-604-thyraton-tube-module.html
1•elpocko•2m ago•0 comments

Cherry Powder as a Natural Antioxidant for Ready-to-Eat Beef Patties

https://www.mdpi.com/2304-8158/15/9/1483
1•PaulHoule•2m ago•0 comments

Fukushima, Japan faces "intelligent" bear

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/05/bear-attacked-four-people-japan-missing-at-large
1•doctor_radium•3m ago•0 comments

fastai: style

https://docs.fast.ai/dev/style.html
1•tosh•5m ago•0 comments

A Mote in AI

https://mvcalder-01701.medium.com/a-mote-in-ai-8c544becc958
1•mvcalder•5m ago•0 comments

Automating my job away

https://austinhenley.com/blog/automatingmyjob.html
1•azhenley•8m ago•0 comments

"Survivor" winners need a raise

https://thehustle.co/newsletters/22-04-2026
1•paulpauper•9m ago•0 comments

The purpose of a system is what it does

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_what_it_does
1•mooreds•9m ago•1 comments

You Can and Should Blame Young People When They Act Like Lazy Cheaters

https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/you-can-and-should-blame-young-people
1•paulpauper•10m ago•0 comments

The Philosophy of the Out-of-Office Email

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/06/out-of-office-email-vacation/687462/
1•paulpauper•10m ago•0 comments

Wispr-Flow-Linux – Wispr Flow via Apt, DNF, AUR, AppImage, or Nix Flake

https://github.com/wispr-flow-linux/wispr-flow-linux
1•aaddrick•11m ago•1 comments

Why Doing More Keeps You Stuck

https://letters.unchartedpathbreakthroughs.com/posts/why-doing-more-keeps-you-stuck
1•mooreds•12m ago•0 comments

Meta's Giant AI Data Center Is Reshaping Rural Louisiana

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2026-meta-facebook-ai-data-center-louisiana/
1•mooreds•13m ago•1 comments

Best Red-Light Therapy for Hair Restoration and Regrowth (2026)

https://www.wired.com/story/best-red-light-therapy-for-hair-growth/
1•joozio•16m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What happened to the guy that invented LLMs?

1•yesitcan•17m ago•2 comments

Show HN: Baseball version of the popular 82-0 game

https://statgm.com/
1•rcar1046•18m ago•0 comments

DeadMRR – Acquisition-Ready SaaS Database

https://deadmrr.netlify.app
1•JimCharles•18m ago•0 comments

Conversation in the Womb – A Parable of Life After Delivery

https://growforhumans.co.uk/uncategorized/conversation-womb-parable-life-delivery/
1•vickychijwani•18m ago•0 comments

An introduction to functional analysis for science and engineering

https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.02539
2•Anon84•19m ago•0 comments

The golden era of K-pop

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4EOmTlEROIU9hz6EbkBxAx
2•mrhappypappy•22m ago•0 comments

Softmax: Why neural networks need non-linearity? life isn't straight-line simple

https://blog.sparsh.dev/softmax-activation-function/
2•sparshrestha•23m ago•1 comments

The J Programming Language (2014)

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/j-language/
4•tosh•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A 178K Neural Net that beats Pokémon Roguelike

https://thiagolira.blot.im/i-got-so-mad-at-poke-rogue-like-that-i-trained-a-rl-agent-to-beat-it-f...
3•farcaster•27m ago•0 comments

Myanmar's civil war is escalating fast. Here's what's happening

https://respublicamgz.substack.com/p/myanmars-civil-war-is-escalating
2•ResPublica•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AgentCrew – a Markdown-first operating system for AI coding agents

https://github.com/mlguyYT/AgentCrew
3•mhjafari92•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Find conversations happening for your product or business

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/community-ninja-signals/id6776220645
2•shashanoid•31m ago•0 comments

Anticonsumerist Repair Cafes urge you to fix it instead of pitch it

https://apnews.com/article/repair-cafes-economy-anticonsumerism-affordability-buy-nothing-d3acac3...
2•rolph•32m ago•1 comments

Ripping a DVD, a federal crime in 1999, requires $22 and free software in 2026

https://ringmast4r.substack.com/p/in-1999-this-was-a-federal-crime
24•akkartik•32m ago•23 comments

Personal Email Salons (1997)

https://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/personalesalons.html
1•greyface-•33m ago•0 comments

I Gave ChatGPT a Body [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S67z2aekBrI
2•lisper•33m ago•0 comments