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Serenity OS: Interview

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Resurfaced independently across 2 calendar years, with breakout response in 2 of them.

submissions
4
submitters
4
observed span
2022–2024
peak thread · 176 comments
275 pts
latest 20+ return · 2024-02-07
266 pts

Submission timeline

2007–2026

One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.

First comments on top threads

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Host here. Serenity is amazing. But also big props to Andreas for speaking so candidly about the back story of Serenity. I feel like there are certain things we don't talk about in tech and that can change. I love the idea that programming, esp side projects, can be a therapeutic thing.

Some quotes I like: Andreas: Everything is just a piece of code that somebody writes. And if we just make all those pieces of code and stack them up, it’s going to work. I had no illusions about how an operating system looks once it is put together and works. Now I didn’t know how to get there, but I reasoned that if you just start building these components one by one, eventually you’ll have the full stack and it…

The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.

Breakout years
2

100+ points or 50+ comments

Total points
551

reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking

Total comments
231

reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking

Every submission

DateTitle as submittedByPointsComments
2022-02-02Corecursive: Serenity OS with Andreas Kling [audio]type083
2022-02-03Serenity OS with Andreas Kling – CoRecursive Podcastsigna1120
2022-02-04Serenity OS: InterviewFirst breakout · Best threadwhack27552
2024-02-07Interview with Andreas Kling of Serenity OS (2022)Latest 20+ point returntosh266176