system utilities and virtualization tools
Recent window: last 5.3 months (2026-04-28 → 2026-10-06), compared with the prior 5.3 months.
These products provide low-level operating system utilities, lightweight virtualization environments, and desktop tools. They are primarily used by developers, power users, and engineers looking to inspect system processes, manage files, or run isolated microVMs locally. Unlike hosted cloud developer platforms, this cluster centers on local desktop applications and bare-metal system-level software.
Members
| Name | Source | Upvotes ▼ | Launched |
|---|---|---|---|
| elpis | GITHUB | 540 | 2026-09-29 |
| Smol machines | HN | 499 | 2026-04-17 |
| fsearch | GITHUB | 451 | 2026-10-08 |
| DVD-Creator | GITHUB | 407 | 2026-10-02 |
| Auto-identity-remove | HN | 325 | 2026-05-18 |
| Total-Commander | GITHUB | 316 | 2026-10-02 |
| Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone | HN | 312 | 2026-08-03 |
| Sub-millisecond VM sandboxes using CoW memory forking | HN | 311 | 2026-03-17 |
| bootloops | GITHUB | 265 | 2026-10-01 |
| Kakehashi | HN | 255 | 2026-08-02 |
| Copperhead | HN | 249 | 2026-09-08 |
| Auto-Architecture: Karpathy's Loop, pointed at a CPU | HN | 241 | 2026-04-28 |
| TauriKit | GITHUB | 224 | 2026-09-23 |
| ultra-Iso | GITHUB | 215 | 2026-10-02 |
| Local-First Linux MicroVMs for macOS | HN | 213 | 2026-02-22 |
| Microsoft-Office | GITHUB | 207 | 2026-10-02 |
| Sonar | HN | 204 | 2026-03-20 |
| Ashampoo-Uninstaller | GITHUB | 201 | 2026-10-02 |
| OpenCourant | GITHUB | 198 | 2026-10-02 |
| Tiny VM sandbox in C with apps in Rust, C and Zig | HN | 196 | 2025-12-12 |
| The Virtual OS Museum | PH | 196 | 2026-06-08 |
| Telemetron: The Support Platform that Understands Hardware | YC | 193 | 2025-11-05 |
| mysticgsi | GITHUB | 182 | 2026-09-25 |
| WonderBox | GITHUB | 181 | 2026-09-20 |
| Shitty | HN | 173 | 2026-08-02 |
| avdslim | GITHUB | 161 | 2026-09-16 |
| Microsoft-Project | GITHUB | 160 | 2026-10-01 |
| I wrote a BASIC interpreter that boots on UEFI machines | HN | 156 | 2026-08-23 |
| Forkrun | HN | 151 | 2026-03-27 |
| Microsoft-Visio | GITHUB | 149 | 2026-10-01 |
| NetworkOcean: Floating solar data centers | YC | 147 | 2026-09-30 |
| SystemOneHarness | GITHUB | 143 | 2026-09-19 |
| Gova | HN | 143 | 2026-04-24 |
| TinyCity | HN | 142 | 2026-01-15 |
| I wrote a minimal memory allocator in C | HN | 137 | 2025-11-23 |
| ember | GITHUB | 137 | 2026-09-13 |
| dsh-libreoffice-kit | GITHUB | 136 | 2026-09-30 |
| GentleOS | HN | 132 | 2026-06-07 |
| ZeroFS | HN | 128 | 2026-07-02 |
| Tusk for macOS and Gnome | HN | 120 | 2026-04-04 |
| Anos | HN | 115 | 2026-04-04 |
| omarchy-rescue | GITHUB | 113 | 2026-09-27 |
| Wise-Registrity | GITHUB | 111 | 2026-10-02 |
| Kontakt-8 | GITHUB | 109 | 2026-10-02 |
| We built an 8-bit CPU as 2nd year EE students | HN | 108 | 2026-06-15 |
| Modo | HN | 103 | 2026-04-05 |
| GrayKet | GITHUB | 103 | 2026-10-02 |
| Nibble | HN | 102 | 2026-05-14 |
| LossLess-Scaling | GITHUB | 102 | 2026-10-02 |
| Northstar | GITHUB | 101 | 2026-09-20 |