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Operating systems & kernels Videos Recommended on Hacker News (111)

Operating systems & kernels is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 111 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2007 and 2026 — 279 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.

Operating systems: kernels, scheduling, virtual memory, Unix, BSD, Windows internals, microkernels, virtualization, containers, OS research, system calls, boot process.

Why HN keeps sending people here — on The Tragedy of systemd: “is an interesting talk on this topic from the view of someone (Benno Rice) in BSD land. Highly recommended.” — an HN commenter, 2024.

14 mo on HN

The Tragedy of systemd

linux.conf.au
16 HN recommender · 2019–2025
11 mo on HN

The Thirty Million Line Problem

Molly Rocket
11 HN recommender · 2018–2024
10 mo on HN

VCF East: Ken Thompson interviewed by Brian Kernighan

Vintage Computer Federation
11 HN recommender · 2019–2025
9 mo on HN

LISA11 - Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos

USENIX
9 HN recommender · 2012–2026
9 mo on HN

USENIX ATC '21/OSDI '21 Joint Keynote Address-It's Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware

USENIX
12 HN recommender · 2021–2026
8 mo on HN

AT&T Archives: The UNIX Operating System

AT&T Tech Channel
10 HN recommender · 2013–2026
8 mo on HN

TempleOS | Down the Rabbit Hole

Fredrik Knudsen
7 HN recommender · 2019–2022
7 mo on HN

Unix and Google

FOAM
4 HN recommender · 2016–2023
6 mo on HN

Bryan Cantrill on Jails and Solaris Zones

PapersWeLove
6 HN recommender · 2016–2025
6 mo on HN

Containers From Scratch • Liz Rice • GOTO 2018

GOTO Conferences
6 HN recommender · 2018–2025
6 mo on HN

User-level threads....... with threads. - Paul Turner - Google

Linux Plumbers Conference
6 HN recommender · 2013–2024
5 mo on HN

Bryan Cantrill from Joyent on Manta: internet-facing object storage facility that features compute

AI Council
4 HN recommender · 2014–2026
5 mo on HN

Larry Hastings - Removing Python's GIL: The Gilectomy - PyCon 2016

PyCon 2016
5 HN recommender · 2016–2023
4 mo on HN

Dtrace Review

GoogleTalksArchive
4 HN recommender · 2013–2026
5 mo on HN

UNIX: Making Computers Easier To Use -- AT&T Archives film from 1982, Bell Laboratories

AT&T Tech Channel
6 HN recommender · 2015–2024
5 mo on HN

Avie Tevanian: CMU math whiz goes from Mach to NeXT to Apple Software Chief | Oral History Part 1

Computer History Museum
3 HN recommender · 2017–2024
4 mo on HN

The real story behind Wayland and X

Linux.conf.au 2013 -- Canberra, Australia
4 HN recommender · 2018–2024
5 mo on HN

Golang UK Conf. 2016 - Liz Rice - What is a container, really? Let's write one in Go from scratch

GopherCon UK
3 HN recommender · 2016–2019
4 mo on HN

Replace Your Exploit-Ridden Firmware with Linux - Ronald Minnich, Google

The Linux Foundation
6 HN recommender · 2017–2023
4 mo on HN

Toybox vs BusyBox - Rob Landley, hobbyist

The Linux Foundation
5 HN recommender · 2020–2025
4 mo on HN

MINIX 3: a Modular, Self-Healing POSIX-compatible Operating System

FOSDEM
4 HN recommender · 2013–2023
4 mo on HN

Benno Rice: The Tragedy of systemd -- BSDCan 2018

BSDCan
4 HN recommender · 2018–2024
3 mo on HN

"What UNIX Cost Us" - Benno Rice (LCA 2020)

linux.conf.au
3 HN recommender · 2022–2025
4 mo on HN

Ubuntu Slaughters Kittens | BSD Now 103

Jupiter Broadcasting
4 HN recommender · 2015–2024
3 mo on HN

Cgroups, namespaces, and beyond: what are containers made from?

Docker
4 HN recommender · 2017–2023
3 mo on HN

The REAL Story On Why Space Cadet Pinball Was Removed (ft. Windows on Itanium)

NCommander
4 HN recommender · 2021–2024
3 mo on HN

CheerpX: a WebAssembly-based x86 virtual machine in the browser, Yuri Iozzelli

WebAssembly NA
2 HN recommender · 2020–2025
3 mo on HN

Run containers on bare metal already!

Bryan Cantrill
3 HN recommender · 2015–2025
3 mo on HN

A Narrative History of BSD, Dr. Kirk McKusick

bsdconferences
3 HN recommender · 2013–2017
3 mo on HN

BlueHat Seattle 2019 || Guarding Against Physical Attacks: The Xbox One Story

Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC)
2 HN recommender · 2020–2026
3 mo on HN

The Mind Behind Windows: Dave Cutler

Dave's Garage
4 HN recommender · 2023–2026
3 mo on HN

"Liberating the Smalltalk lurking in C and Unix" by Stephen Kell

Strange Loop Conference
2 HN recommender · 2016–2023
3 mo on HN

Shared memory parallelism in Julia | Kiran Pamnany | Cambridge Julia Meetup (May 2018)

The Julia Programming Language
4 HN recommender · 2018–2019
3 mo on HN

Let's port Diablo to SerenityOS!

Andreas Kling
2 HN recommender · 2021–2022
3 mo on HN

NeXTSTEP Release 3 Demo

blatherskyte
3 HN recommender · 2007–2016
3 mo on HN

Windows "SUCKS": How I'd Fix it by a retired Microsoft Windows engineer

Dave's Garage
3 HN recommender · 2025–2026