I vibecoded an ARM64 operating system that boots on real hardware
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VibeOS is a retro operating system that boots on qemu and Pi Zero 2W. I built this with Claude code in about 4 weeks.
HN · launched Jan 10, 2026 · 24 upvotes (top 32%) · 1 view
Niche: experimental and embedded operating systems · 142 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -60% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 142 launches in experimental and embedded operating systems →
Could you build this?
No Developing an operating system that boots on bare-metal ARM64 hardware (Raspberry Pi Zero 2W) requires low-level bare-metal systems programming, assembly, and hardware architecture expertise.
What it would actually take: Requires writing ARM64 assembly startup routines (vector tables, EL1/EL2 exception level switching), setting up page tables for the MMU, writing a bare-metal UART and GPU/framebuffer driver for the Broadcom BCM2837 SoC, and implementing preemptive scheduling and memory allocators. While an LLM like Claude Code can generate boilerplate snippets, debugging hardware boot hangs, cache coherency, and register timings on real silicon requires deep low-level systems and embedded engineering expertise.
Discussion
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Concerns raised: AI capabilities unpredictable and advancing faster than expected, Product not fully tested, Unclear if output is truly coherent or just trained on source code
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 160 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #70 of 161 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 60 days after the earliest competitor.
- BananaOS, vibecoded operating system that boots on a 486 with ~11MB RAM · hn · 2026-02-27 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Vib-OS, vibecoded a operating system · hn · 2026-01-21 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Fibbe · ph · 2026-10-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Vibe Remote · hn · 2026-03-18 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- picoOS · github · 2026-10-05 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Vibe Buddy · ph · 2026-08-04 · 161 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- VibePulse · ph · 2026-09-19 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- cleanyourtv · github · 2026-10-17 · 17590 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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