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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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14 mo on HNThe Tragedy of systemd
linux.conf.au
16 HN recommender · 2019–2025
11 mo on HNThe Thirty Million Line Problem
Molly Rocket
11 HN recommender · 2018–2024
10 mo on HNVCF East: Ken Thompson interviewed by Brian Kernighan
Vintage Computer Federation
11 HN recommender · 2019–2025
9 mo on HNLISA11 - Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos
USENIX
9 HN recommender · 2012–2026
9 mo on HNUSENIX 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 HNAT&T Archives: The UNIX Operating System
AT&T Tech Channel
10 HN recommender · 2013–2026
8 mo on HNTempleOS | Down the Rabbit Hole
Fredrik Knudsen
7 HN recommender · 2019–2022
7 mo on HNUnix and Google
FOAM
4 HN recommender · 2016–2023
6 mo on HNBryan Cantrill on Jails and Solaris Zones
PapersWeLove
6 HN recommender · 2016–2025
6 mo on HNContainers From Scratch • Liz Rice • GOTO 2018
GOTO Conferences
6 HN recommender · 2018–2025
6 mo on HNUser-level threads....... with threads. - Paul Turner - Google
Linux Plumbers Conference
6 HN recommender · 2013–2024
5 mo on HNBryan Cantrill from Joyent on Manta: internet-facing object storage facility that features compute
AI Council
4 HN recommender · 2014–2026
5 mo on HNLarry Hastings - Removing Python's GIL: The Gilectomy - PyCon 2016
PyCon 2016
5 HN recommender · 2016–2023
4 mo on HNDtrace Review
GoogleTalksArchive
4 HN recommender · 2013–2026
5 mo on HNUNIX: 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 HNAvie 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 HNThe real story behind Wayland and X
Linux.conf.au 2013 -- Canberra, Australia
4 HN recommender · 2018–2024
5 mo on HNGolang 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 HNReplace Your Exploit-Ridden Firmware with Linux - Ronald Minnich, Google
The Linux Foundation
6 HN recommender · 2017–2023
4 mo on HNToybox vs BusyBox - Rob Landley, hobbyist
The Linux Foundation
5 HN recommender · 2020–2025
4 mo on HNMINIX 3: a Modular, Self-Healing POSIX-compatible Operating System
FOSDEM
4 HN recommender · 2013–2023
4 mo on HNBenno 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 HNUbuntu Slaughters Kittens | BSD Now 103
Jupiter Broadcasting
4 HN recommender · 2015–2024
3 mo on HNCgroups, namespaces, and beyond: what are containers made from?
Docker
4 HN recommender · 2017–2023
3 mo on HNThe REAL Story On Why Space Cadet Pinball Was Removed (ft. Windows on Itanium)
NCommander
4 HN recommender · 2021–2024
3 mo on HNCheerpX: a WebAssembly-based x86 virtual machine in the browser, Yuri Iozzelli
WebAssembly NA
2 HN recommender · 2020–2025
3 mo on HNRun containers on bare metal already!
Bryan Cantrill
3 HN recommender · 2015–2025
3 mo on HNA Narrative History of BSD, Dr. Kirk McKusick
bsdconferences
3 HN recommender · 2013–2017
3 mo on HNBlueHat Seattle 2019 || Guarding Against Physical Attacks: The Xbox One Story
Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC)
2 HN recommender · 2020–2026
3 mo on HNThe 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 HNShared memory parallelism in Julia | Kiran Pamnany | Cambridge Julia Meetup (May 2018)
The Julia Programming Language
4 HN recommender · 2018–2019
3 mo on HNLet's port Diablo to SerenityOS!
Andreas Kling
2 HN recommender · 2021–2022
3 mo on HNNeXTSTEP Release 3 Demo
blatherskyte
3 HN recommender · 2007–2016
3 mo on HNWindows "SUCKS": How I'd Fix it by a retired Microsoft Windows engineer
Dave's Garage
3 HN recommender · 2025–2026