Aurion OS, A 1.8MB OS with a browser, try it live (C/x86 ASM)
Details
- External ID
- 47628336
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- Aurion OS, A 1.8MB OS with a browser, try it live (C/x86 ASM)
- Website domain
- vercel.app
- Launched
- April 3, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.11182519280205655
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
I posted Aurion OS a few weeks ago on HN.Since then, the OS has gone from Beta to v1.0 Release with a lot of improvements:Blaze Browser: HTML/CSS/JS rendering with tabs and a developer console (local only, no full http/https support for now) Installer with user account setup and app selection Multi-resolution support (800x600 to 2560x1440, I plan to add 4096x2160 pixels in next versions) Unix-style luka@aurion prompt Serbian keyboard layout Python interpreter and Make build system 50+ terminal commands Window manager improvements and bug fixes1.8MB ISO (entire OS including the browser and GUI) Supports QEMU, VirtualBox, VMware, and v86You can try it live in the link above, or grab the ISO from GitHub: https://github.com/Luka12-dev/AurionOSBuilt solo as a hobby/learning project. I'm 13. I'd love any feedback, suggestions!
Enrichment
- Theme
- lightweight and on-device AI runtimes
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- minimal operating system with browser
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Developing an entire custom operating system in C and x86 Assembly with a self-contained HTML/CSS/JS engine is a massive systems engineering feat.
What it would actually take: Requires expert-level knowledge of x86 protected/long mode, bootloader design (real mode to protected mode), kernel primitives (memory paging, interrupt handling, task schedulers), device drivers, and a from-scratch rendering and lexing engine for web markup and script interpretation.
Discussion
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Competitors
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Attention rank: #54 of 56 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 137 days after the earliest competitor.
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- mksawk · github · 2026-09-24 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.36
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- No other launches for this product.
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