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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.
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3 mo on HN"NTFS really isn't that bad" - Robert Collins (LCA 2020)
linux.conf.au
5 HN recommender · 2020–2025
2 mo on HNThe Unix Chainsaw - Gary Bernhardt
timmonta
2 HN recommender · 2016–2022
2 mo on HNHackfest 2015: Theo de Raadt presented "Pledge: A new security technology in openbsd"
Hackfest Communication
2 HN recommender · 2015–2022
2 mo on HNPart 1 - Training Video for Bell Labs' Holmdel Computing Center - AT&T Archives
AT&T Tech Channel
2 HN recommender · 2018–2024
2 mo on HNBringing the Unix Philosophy to Big Data by Bryan Cantrill: FutureStack13
New Relic
2 HN recommender · 2014–2022
2 mo on HNillumos day 2014: The Dream is Alive! Running Linux containers on an illumos kernel
illumos
2 HN recommender · 2014–2019
2 mo on HNThe Origins of Linux—Linus Torvalds
Computer History Museum
2 HN recommender · 2008–2014
2 mo on HNSymbOS MP3MSX Demostration
karloch
2 HN recommender · 2014–2018
2 mo on HNOral History of Dave Cutler Part 1
Computer History Museum
2 HN recommender · 2020–2024
2 mo on HNFreeBSD optimizations used by Netflix serving at 800Gb/s - Drew Gallatin - EuroBSDcon 2022
EuroBSDCon
2 HN recommender · 2022–2025
2 mo on HNNeWS: A Networked and Extensible Window System, lecture by James Gosling
Computer History Museum
2 HN recommender · 2020–2024
2 mo on HNOxide and Friends 7/3/2023 -- Shipping the first Oxide rack: Your questions answered!
Oxide Computer Company
2 HN recommender · 2023–2025
2 mo on HNDtrace Review
Google TechTalks
2 HN recommender · 2011–2021
2 mo on HNFlorian Grunow, Niklaus Schiess: Lifting the Fog on Red Star OS
media.ccc.de
3 HN recommender · 2020–2022
2 mo on HNBlueHat IL 2023 - David Weston - Default Security
Microsoft Israel R&D Center
3 HN recommender · 2023–2025
2 mo on HNBeOS DEMO VIDEO
koyhoge
2 HN recommender · 2012–2022
2 mo on HNRustConf 2017 - Closing Keynote: Safe Systems Software and the Future of Computing by Joe Duffy
Confreaks
2 HN recommender · 2017–2025
2 mo on HNXFS: Recent and Future Adventures in Filesystem Scalability - Dave Chinner
Linux.conf.au 2012 -- Ballarat, Australia
2 HN recommender · 2012–2023
2 mo on HNBloat: How and Why UNIX Grew Up (and Out) - Rusty Russell,Matt Evans
Linux.conf.au 2012 -- Ballarat, Australia
2 HN recommender · 2014–2015
2 mo on HNEFI and Linux: the future is here, and it's awful - Matthew Garrett
Linux.conf.au 2012 -- Ballarat, Australia
2 HN recommender · 2012–2017
2 mo on HN27c3 - Desktop on the Linux... (and BSD, of course) - Wolfgang Draxinger (+ Lennart Poettering)
SirPumpkin
2 HN recommender · 2011–2023
2 mo on HN[Linux.conf.au 2013] - The real story behind Wayland and X
HackersOnBoard
2 HN recommender · 2016–2023
2 mo on HNContainer Hacks and Fun Images
Jessie Frazelle
2 HN recommender · 2019–2022
2 mo on HNQubes OS: The Operating System That Can Protect You Even If You Get Hacked
Micah Lee
2 HN recommender · 2019–2022
2 mo on HNGeo Carncross: How to program computers (kos)
Justin Cormack
2 HN recommender · 2015–2020
2 mo on HNThe new Windows subsystem for Linux architecture: a deep dive - BRK3068
Microsoft Developer
2 HN recommender · 2019–2023
2 mo on HNQuick Start, Episode 7: Crimes... And Felonies.
Cathode Ray Dude - CRD
2 HN recommender · 2024–2026
2 mo on HNChain of Fools : Upgrading through every version of windows (HQ)
TheRasteri
2 HN recommender · 2011–2021
2 mo on HNThe future of Linux Containers
dotcloudtv
2 HN recommender · 2013–2025
2 mo on HNJune 2021 FreeBSD Developer Summit: Raid-Z Expansion
FreeBSD
2 HN recommender · 2021–2023
1 mo on HNLeaping the chasm from proprietary to open: A survivor's guide
Bryan Cantrill
1 HN recommend · 2020–2024
1 mo on HNA Brief History of the BSD Fast Filesystem by Marshall Kirk McKusick
EuroBSDCon
1 HN recommend · 2020–2023
1 mo on HNSpeakeasy JS - Redbean: Actually Portable Executable Web Server (Justine Tunney)
Feross
1 HN recommend · 2021–2023
1 mo on HNOffensiveCon19 - Alex Ionescu - Keynote - Reversing Without Reversing
OffensiveCon
1 HN recommend · 2019–2021
1 mo on HN36C3 - A systematic evaluation of OpenBSD's mitigations
media.ccc.de
1 HN recommend · 2020–2024
1 mo on HNPlan 9: Not dead, Just Resting, by Ori Bernstein
BSDTV
1 HN recommend · 2019–2024