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Google just gave us an accidental first look at Android's PC future

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-aluminium-os-first-look-bug-report-3635801/
23•tambourine_man•2h ago

Comments

Klaster_1•1h ago
I don't want a "PC future" where you can't just install software without OS vendor blessing.
netdevphoenix•1h ago
Neither do I. But with Windows slipping badly, Google could start encroaching on their core tech.
kace91•1h ago
Linux seems to be gaining a lot of traction, both with the fall of windows and gaming being more than feasible.

It makes sense for the tech savvy option to succeed, now that personal computing is disappearing. Average folks won’t use a windows/macbook, they’ll use phones and tablets.

My only concern is ending in a macOS+asahi situation where supporting a single device requires mountains of effort.

direwolf20•1h ago
This is why Valve invested so much in Linux. They saw the writing on the wall of Microsoft becoming Apple (but shittier). Now they have an alternative. If Microsoft charges a 30% tax on all Steam transactions and won't let Steam run unless they do that, Valve can heavily push Linux and Steam Machine sales.
Aldipower•1h ago
No thanks.
daoboy•1h ago
Many years ago I used to play around with CyanogenMod and Linux.

Life with work and a family became too busy to fuss with that stuff, but I'm rapidly approaching the point where abuse from android and Microsoft make using a less polished OS worth the bother.

mhitza•1h ago
You'll be happy to hear then that the experience has improved significantly over the past decade.
GreenVulpine•1h ago
Does it still require wiping your drive and enabling developer mode to install software outside the Play Store like ChromeOS does? DOA if so.
skybrian•15m ago
I believe you can run Linux in a container and use apt-get.

https://chromeos.dev/en/linux/setup

N_Lens•1h ago
Google’s entire business is predicated on collecting as much data on users as possible. This OS will be the worst spyware imaginable.
titzer•26m ago
No, only the 85% or so of it that's accreted since about 2008. Prior to that it actually made money by offering useful search results without infringing on user privacy. That core business model could still work to power a company about 1/8th the size of current Google. Current Google cannot survive on that model. Something went really wrong when it put growthism above all else.
Imustaskforhelp•1h ago
If this allows one to still have (linux terminals?), then its (fine?) but Klaster_1 suggests that installing software would become hard without OS vendor blessing.

I mean, is this OS literally just android with a more desktop like UI?

Didn't Samsung have something like this called (just searched) Samsung Dex?

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Samsung+DeX&t=ffab&ia=images&iax=i...

What I would prefer is a linux device phone being more widespread than Android PC. Linux in PC is mostly pretty good.

We probably need some good linux phones. One of the biggest issues I find is that they are really price-y so even though I don't want much specs, I find it troubling to justify a 2x price increase in such sense.

> Didn't Samsung have something like this called (just searched) Samsung Dex?

realusername•18m ago
Samsung Dex still exists and still sucks. It's probably the best desktop experience available on Android but it's nowhere near usable as a daily driver. It feels a like a lightweight window manager from the 2008 era.
monologue6894•1h ago
Some "first look"

It's just a slightly different showcase of the same UI shown in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzDO-GS-Bm8

That UI is available to test on any Pixel 10 (maybe even any Android 16 device?)

ndr•34m ago
Chrome and Android look like yin and yang: one never knows which one is planned to run inside the other.

ICE and Palantir: US agents using health data to hunt illegal immigrants

https://www.bmj.com/content/392/bmj.s168
109•dberhane•46m ago•21 comments

Show HN: The HN Arcade

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81•yuppiepuppie•2h ago•30 comments

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24•JumpCrisscross•34m ago•23 comments

There's only one Woz, but we can all learn from him

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152•coloneltcb•4d ago•61 comments

Rust at Scale: An Added Layer of Security for WhatsApp

https://engineering.fb.com/2026/01/27/security/rust-at-scale-security-whatsapp/
85•ubj•6h ago•20 comments

Prism

https://openai.com/index/introducing-prism
672•meetpateltech•19h ago•421 comments

SVG Path Editor

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127•gurjeet•5d ago•14 comments

Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Staff Engineer

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/kyber/jobs/GPJkv5v-staff-engineer-tech-lead
1•asontha•1h ago

A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks

https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2015883857489522876
698•bigwheels•1d ago•565 comments

Pandas 3.0

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107•jonbaer•4d ago•23 comments

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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/science/archaeology-neanderthals-tools.html
434•bookofjoe•21h ago•228 comments

Golden Ratio using an equilateral triangle inscribed in a circle

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104•peter_d_sherman•4d ago•30 comments

Make.ts

https://matklad.github.io/2026/01/27/make-ts.html
108•ingve•5h ago•57 comments

ASML staffing changes could result in a net reduction of around 1700 positions

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265•dep_b•5h ago•251 comments

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26•mooreds•2d ago•6 comments

Rust’s Standard Library on the GPU

https://www.vectorware.com/blog/rust-std-on-gpu/
200•justaboutanyone•4d ago•39 comments

Doing the thing is doing the thing

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431•prakhar897•1d ago•140 comments

Parametric CAD in Rust

https://campedersen.com/vcad
184•ecto•16h ago•127 comments

Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company

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312•hornedhob•18h ago•471 comments

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330•pantalaimon•23h ago•257 comments

Time Station Emulator

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192•FriedPickles•16h ago•46 comments

Virtual Boy on TV with Intelligent Systems Video Boy

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Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores

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249•trenning•21h ago•460 comments

Google just gave us an accidental first look at Android's PC future

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-aluminium-os-first-look-bug-report-3635801/
26•tambourine_man•2h ago•15 comments

AI2: Open Coding Agents

https://allenai.org/blog/open-coding-agents
202•publicmatt•19h ago•34 comments

Show HN: One Human + One Agent = One Browser From Scratch in 20K LOC

https://emsh.cat/one-human-one-agent-one-browser/
264•embedding-shape•23h ago•124 comments

I Made a MIT Licensed Mecrisp-Stellaris Language Server

https://mecrisp-stellaris-folkdoc.sourceforge.io/mecrisp-stellaris-lsp.html
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SoundCloud Data Breach Now on HaveIBeenPwned

https://haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/SoundCloud
187•gnabgib•19h ago•100 comments

FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE

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791•duxup•19h ago•1116 comments