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What even is an OS now?
A Hacker News post linking to an essay titled 'What even is an OS now?' is drawing attention with 254 upvotes. The piece appears to question what an operating system means today, when apps, browsers, containers and cloud services blur the traditional boundaries of an OS. Comment threads on Hacker News commonly debate such definitional questions, but the available evidence is only the link itself, so the specific arguments in the post cannot be summarised from the posts collected.
Why now: Readers on Hacker News are upvoting a thought-provoking essay that challenges the traditional definition of an operating system.
Rank over time, top of the chart is #1. 6 snapshots from 1 h ago to 8 min ago.
Evidence
- What even is an OS now? · fratellobigio · 291