SerenityOS/serenity on Hacker News

…likely stems from the "trans rights are human rights" mantra and is likely is reference to this ( https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/6814 ) where Kling accused a contributor of bringing "personal politics" to the project for…

comment by Defletter · 2026-09-28 · in I switched to Brave

Here's a fun example https://archive.is/ZtQpj Another funny moment from this guy https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/6814#issuecommen...

comment by xgulfie · 2026-09-01 · in Hang on to Your Firefox

I love OSS drama so I found some links: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/6814 https://x.com/LundukeJournal/status/1970907449499484266

comment by liveoneggs · 2026-03-04 · in The Case for Apolitical Tech Spaces

…some interesting things with memory. But perhaps the most novel stuff are things like TRY and MUST: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/blob/master/Documenta... You see this reflected all the way back to the main function. Here is the…

comment by LeFantome · 2026-02-19 · in Closing this as we are no longer pursuing Swift adoption

…[2] but it isn't suitable for daily use (yet) [1] https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95 [2] https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity

comment by lucasoshiro · 2026-01-12 · in Windows 8 Desktop Environment for Linux

> https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity is just that, except it's a whole OS that's Win2k styled. It's a Unix underneath, though. A strange modernised Unix written in C++ but it's definitely Unix-like. It's a Unix-like with a Win2K GUI,…

comment by lproven · 2026-01-06 · in Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux

https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity is just that, except it's a whole OS that's Win2k styled. If it ever gets good hardware support it might have a chance. Or maybe ReactOS - the actual windows clone - gets finished. Rumours put a first…

comment by HeckFeck · 2025-12-30 · in Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux

…media and attracting contributors. Here is what happened to SerenityOS and jakt, for example: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/graphs/commit-activit... https://github.com/SerenityOS/jakt/graphs/commit-activity If Cloudflare wants to…

comment by shadytrees · 2025-09-22 · in Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy

…that you were mentioning, but there's some interesting things going on in their Libraries dir too. https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/blob/master/AK/ https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/blob/master/AK/Result...…

comment by tyrellj · 2025-06-02 · in Writing your own C++ standard library part 2

…has an ARMv8 port: https://github.com/klange/toaruos and Serenity has an ARM and RISC-V ports: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity ; although I think you would call them Unix-like. Haiku has tier-2 ports to ARM, RISC-V, and SPARC:…

comment by mappu · 2025-03-26 · in Recommendation for non-DOS/Unix open source OS outside x86/X64

…shown much skill or merit is arguing against meritocracy. It is in her own interest to do so. [0] https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/6814 [1] https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/941

comment by bheadmaster · 2024-08-24 · in Calling All Hackers

Not anymore https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/24648

comment by jenadine · 2024-08-10 · in Ladybird browser to start using Swift language this fall

There was a big fight on Twitter last month because of a comment he made 3 years ago ( https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/6814 ). I think that's closely related.

comment by ayhanfuat · 2024-08-10 · in Ladybird browser to start using Swift language this fall

…regularly able to create non-trivial hobby OSes from scratch that go from zero to GUI: - Serenity ( https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity ) - not really a small team, but it managed to get to GUI as pretty much a one-man-show - Skift (…

comment by jcelerier · 2024-07-27 · in Managarm: Pragmatic microkernel-based OS with asynchronous I/O

…that ladybird is picking ideological hills to die on, such as "no gender neutral pronouns"[1] [1] https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/6814

comment by ajdude · 2024-07-16 · in For advertising, Firefox now collects user data by default

…they will no longer be able to run `/bin/su`. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40956931 [2] https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/6814

comment by ajdude · 2024-07-14 · in Ad-tech setting 'Privacy-Preserving Attribution' is opt-out in Firefox 128

It happened back when it was all part of Serenity OS: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/6814

comment by PufPufPuf · 2024-07-13 · in Ad-tech setting 'Privacy-Preserving Attribution' is opt-out in Firefox 128

What's SerenityOS's stance? They merged a PR to replace males pronouns https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/24648 If I understand correctly, there was just a social media mob calling the project transphobic over the use of a couple…

comment by jenadine · 2024-07-07 · in Malloc broke Serenity's JPGLoader, or: how to win the lottery (2021)

…images since at least the 90s[1], this isn't something they would have just now discovered. [0] https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/24647 [1] https://youtu.be/yCdwm2vo09I

comment by kmeisthax · 2024-07-07 · in Malloc broke Serenity's JPGLoader, or: how to win the lottery (2021)

…The correct word should actually be "it", which is exactly what the word got recently updated to: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/24648

comment by amatecha · 2024-07-03 · in Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1M from GitHub Founder

Please see https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/6814 If you want to use and/or contribute to such a project that's fine! And if not, that's fine too. But people should know.

comment by arisu · 2024-07-03 · in Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1M from GitHub Founder

…and this comment from awesomekling on their SerenityOS project https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/6814

comment by cratermoon · 2024-07-03 · in Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1M from GitHub Founder

See https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/6814 There's not much grace to find in the response of awesomekling in this PR.

comment by fabrice_d · 2024-07-03 · in Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1M from GitHub Founder

Just remember, https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/6814#issuecommen...

comment by cratermoon · 2024-07-02 · in Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1M from GitHub Founder

…out of the box (at least on Ubuntu in my experience) and the community is nice and welcoming. [1] https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/24480

comment by gaazoh · 2024-06-21 · in Ladybird browser spreads its wings

…of reducing unnecessary code bloat in the kernel. It wasn't a performance optimization. [1] https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/commit/6836091a215229...

comment by boricj · 2024-06-19 · in ExectOS – brand new operating system which derives from NT architecture

…from Unix out to the side even on a Unix-like system, but you can't get rid of it all this way. [1] https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/11229

comment by boricj · 2024-06-19 · in ExectOS – brand new operating system which derives from NT architecture

SerenityOS has (partially) working ports for both ARM and RISC-V already: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/tree/master/Kernel/Ar...

comment by tredre3 · 2024-06-03 · in I'm forking Ladybird and stepping down as SerenityOS BDFL

SerenityOS's browser has never been named Ladybird AFAIK, it's always been just Browser. https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/tree/master/Userland/... Ladybird was the name used for to the cross-platform version of the browser.…

comment by squeek502 · 2024-06-03 · in I'm forking Ladybird and stepping down as SerenityOS BDFL

…SerenityOS project. You can find the answer to that question in their primary project's FAQ[1]. 1. https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/blob/master/Documenta...

comment by devmor · 2024-02-07 · in The Ladybird browser project

If you like this style of UI, check out serenityOS ( https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity ).

comment by asystole · 2024-02-03 · in Ede – An Fltk based desktop environment (2014)

…for work. One large open source project that is using Exception free C++ is SerenityOS for example https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity The best way to write proper exception free C++ is not to use the C++ Standard Library.

comment by pagghiu · 2024-01-28 · in Sane C++ Libraries

…experience with low-level development, and basically got the job due to hobby programming. [0]: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pulls?q=is%3Apr+autho...

comment by trashburger · 2023-12-03 · in Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?

…just the stuff you find on Youtube. The project itself is receiving commits all over the place: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/commits/master Most of the OS advancements have stopped coming from Andreas for a while now, and that's…

comment by jeroenhd · 2023-11-06 · in ReactOS Newsletter 103 – Late 2023 News

Definitely not "literally impossible", just a great deal of work. https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/tree/master/Ladybird

comment by rileyphone · 2023-11-03 · in Bringing garbage collected programming languages efficiently to WebAssembly

SerenityOS is doing exactly that: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/tree/master/Ladybird I also like their Jakt programming language: https://github.com/SerenityOS/jakt Though I'm more enthusiastic about Redox (doing it in Rust):…

comment by cies · 2023-09-27 · in Essence: A desktop OS built from scratch, for control and simplicity

Quick links for the curious: site: https://www.ladybird.dev code: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/tree/master/Ladybird

comment by hu3 · 2023-09-22 · in I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser

…it works fine in a hobby context but it's not 1987 anymore (and don't get me started on select(): https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/11229 ) - signals are a mess - Unix processes have a huge amount of ambient authority, which is…

comment by boricj · 2023-07-25 · in Octox: Unix-like OS in Rust inspired by xv6-riscv

SerenityOS's codebase is extremely clean: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity

comment by thom · 2023-07-13 · in Simpsons Hit and Run source code (2003)

…allow us to, well, run POSIX shell scripts. (This currently requires installing a 3rd party shell.) https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/issues/6847 Where's some variety ? I hope to get into the field myself eventually, so maybe I should…

comment by vacuity · 2023-07-10 · in NixOS and my descent into insanity

…[2] https://github.com/Shopify/javy [3] https://bytecodealliance.org/ [4] https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/tree/master/Userland/...

comment by TachyonicBytes · 2023-06-28 · in Welcoming Shopify as a Ladybird sponsor

There are people still doing this. Example: Serenity OS https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity

comment by pkphilip · 2023-06-23 · in So you want to write a GUI framework (2021)

…is already built right into LibWeb[1]. I spot 851 patterns that get filtered currently [2]. 1: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/blob/master/Userland/... 2: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/blob/master/Base/home...

comment by vkoskiv · 2023-06-18 · in I have received a $100k sponsorship for Ladybird browser

…integrated in Serenity, for a while). There is even a video[2] where Andreas implemented it! [0] https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/blob/master/Ladybird/... [1] https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/blob/master/Userland/... [2]…

comment by DexesTTP · 2023-06-18 · in I have received a $100k sponsorship for Ladybird browser

I guess the library part is LibWeb: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/tree/master/Userland/...

comment by roetlich · 2023-06-18 · in I have received a $100k sponsorship for Ladybird browser

…the Ladybird browser: https://awesomekling.github.io/Ladybird-a-new-cross-platform... Github repo: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/tree/master/Ladybird

comment by thih9 · 2023-06-18 · in I have received a $100k sponsorship for Ladybird browser

…a browser engine from scratch for their browser Ladybird [1], is vastly more impressive. [1] https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/tree/master/Ladybird

comment by jraph · 2023-04-27 · in Every web search result in Brave Search is now served by our own index

Also worth mentioning SerenityOS https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity . It’s a very friendly environment and easy to get involved.

comment by brapru · 2023-04-19 · in Ask HN: How to get into OS/systems programming in 2023?

What we all REALLY care about: they went with C++ and Qt https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/tree/master/Ladybird

comment by ryanjshaw · 2023-04-11 · in We're building a browser when it's supposed to be impossible

…the web. Fourth, the LadyBird browser doesn't try very hard to be fast. Ex. getElementById is O(n): https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/blob/f532f9d27935f508... Similarly LibJS doesn't JIT. Lots of effort in modern browsers is about…

comment by esprehn · 2023-04-09 · in Dooble Web Browser