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You should try Haiku: https://www.haiku-os.org/ It's actually pretty usable these days, at least on Thinkpads and other \"generic Intel chipset\" machines.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux"}]}, {"label": "BeOS successor", "summary": "BeOS fans recommend it as a usable system based directly on BeOS.", "quotes": [{"id": 760219024, "item_id": 47513689, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47513689", "by": "rebolek", "date": "2026-03-24", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it's very nice and very usable system based directly on BeOS.", "excerpt": "If you like BeOS, take a look at Haiku https://www.haiku-os.org/ , it's very nice and very usable system based directly on BeOS.", "context": "", "use_case": "BeOS-like desktop OS", "switched_from": "", "story": "VitruvianOS \u2013 Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS"}, {"id": 804947328, "item_id": 50309208, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50309208", "by": "renehsz", "date": "2026-10-30", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I really recommend checking out Haiku OS", "excerpt": "To anyone who hasn't already: I really recommend checking out Haiku OS [1], the FOSS successor to BeOS. 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With early support for M1 Macs (https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/my-haiku-arm64-progress/19044/30) and Raspberry Pi 500+ (https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/my-haiku-arm64-progress/19044/83).", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS"}]}, {"label": "Daily driver", "summary": "Some commenters use it as a daily driver for many tasks.", "quotes": [{"id": 801866240, "item_id": 50116640, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50116640", "by": "ErroneousBosh", "date": "2026-10-16", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I've moved back to Haiku as my daily driver for a lot of stuff.", "excerpt": "I've moved back to Haiku as my daily driver for a lot of stuff. 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Congrats to the team!", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Haiku R1/beta6 has been released"}]}, {"label": "Easy install", "summary": "One commenter installed and booted it on a 2008 MacBook Pro without problems.", "quotes": [{"id": 792080608, "item_id": 49505038, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49505038", "by": "yoshamano", "date": "2026-08-31", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it installed and booted without any issues", "excerpt": "I just so happen to have a 2008 Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro doing nothing. I followed the directions at: https://www.haiku-os.org/guides/uefi_booting/ and it installed and booted without any issues.", "context": "", "use_case": "Old Mac install", "switched_from": "", "story": "Haiku R1/beta6 has been released"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "Not daily-drivable", "summary": "Several commenters doubt it is usable as a daily driver, partly because it is still in beta.", "quotes": [{"id": 770943856, "item_id": 48183991, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48183991", "by": "selectodude", "date": "2026-05-18", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "not sure anybody can use Haiku as a daily driver", "excerpt": "I\u2019m not sure anybody can use Haiku as a daily driver, regardless of platform.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now"}, {"id": 770942176, "item_id": 48183886, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48183886", "by": "shevy-java", "date": "2026-05-18", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "is not quite on the same level as daily driver", "excerpt": "Can we use that as daily driver? 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You should try Haiku: https://www.haiku-os.org/ It's actually pretty usable these days, at least on Thinkpads and other \"generic Intel chipset\" machines.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux"}, {"id": 756162273, "item_id": 47260142, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47260142", "by": "LargoLasskhyfv", "date": "2026-03-05", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "the beta isn't usable as daily driver, at least not for me", "excerpt": "Apart from your repeated rants about the trauma you have suffered from early BTRFS, which goes against my (later) experience with it, and therfore against my grain, your comparison of the speeds of various distros triggered me the same way. > If you'd tried BeOS on x86 and you actually remembered,... I did, and I do remember. 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With AI I feel like a lot of these bygone-era OS's could see a whole new ecosystem of modern apps within a very short period of time. 1. https://github.com/machiya-kobo/shiori/tree/main#haiku", "context": "", "use_case": "desktop OS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Infinite Mac: BeOS"}, {"id": 804947328, "item_id": 50309208, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50309208", "by": "renehsz", "date": "2026-10-30", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I really recommend checking out Haiku OS", "excerpt": "To anyone who hasn't already: I really recommend checking out Haiku OS [1], the FOSS successor to BeOS. It's so pleasant to use and supports a surprisingly large catalog of software. 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Unfortunately it doesn't really have a good video editor yet, so I'm stuck with Linux for that at least.", "context": "", "use_case": "daily driver OS", "switched_from": "", "story": "BeBox is a Haiku application that emulates Be Inc.'s BeBox"}, {"id": 800204071, "item_id": 50012754, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50012754", "by": "gregwebs", "date": "2026-10-08", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Haiku also doesn't seem like a competitive price/performance mix.", "excerpt": "I have been using DeepSeek 4.1 flash intensively for over a month. If I run it all day long it costs $1-2. Its fast. Previously I was always quickly running up to my Claude/Codex 5 hour window (on the $20/month plan). The cost savings of DeepSeek is real as shown in this article and I am using subsidized plans. DeepSeek is horrible at grilling sessions (the /grill* skills to make technical decisions). It doesn't know", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?"}, {"id": 800014818, "item_id": 50000926, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000926", "by": "zyk_computer", "date": "2026-10-08", "version": null, "stance": "compare", "quote": "now I want to give it a try", "excerpt": "I used to always use glm or deepseek instead of Haiku, but now I want to give it a try.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Haiku 5.5"}, {"id": 799991168, "item_id": 49999448, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49999448", "by": "jeremyjh", "date": "2026-10-07", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I would mostly use Haiku in task or explorer subagents.", "excerpt": "If you can't get any coding done with 100K context that is either a broken model, a broken harness or a skill issue. I would mostly use Haiku in task or explorer subagents. I'm not saying I stay under that on every task, but I do have quite a few sessions that cap out well below that, so that price difference would be very meaningful. I use Luna for this day in and out and its excellent - if Haiku is that much better", "context": "", "use_case": "subagents", "switched_from": "Luna", "story": "Claude Haiku 5.5"}, {"id": 799944640, "item_id": 49996540, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49996540", "by": "giancarlostoro", "date": "2026-10-07", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "any time I ask Opus to \"try\" letting Haiku do the work, it just falls apart", "excerpt": "I with they'd give Haiku like 400k tokens roughly, I think between 400k or even 600k tokens is a sweet spot, but Haiku is basically designed to be for small edits is my understanding, but it sucks because any time I ask Opus to \"try\" letting Haiku do the work, it just falls apart and Opus comes back and tells me it switched to Sonnet (even before Sonnet finally jumped up to 5.x). I will try the new Haiku, but it woul", "context": "", "use_case": "file editing for Opus/Sonnet", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Haiku 5.5"}, {"id": 799130848, "item_id": 49945678, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49945678", "by": "pjmlp", "date": "2026-10-03", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Haiku has archived what BeOS programming looked like", "excerpt": "You would have had a C++ userspace, and POSIX would likely not be as relevant as it is today. Note that BeOS wasn't POSIX compatible, that came with Haiku rewrite. However without UNIX/POSIX to sell Apple to those frustrated Linux users looking for shinny UNIX laptops, and the management skills from Steve Jobs (vs Gass\u00e9), probably Apple would be no more instead. Haiku has archived what BeOS programming looked like, h", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Forgetful CPU (Linux on M4)"}, {"id": 798340689, "item_id": 49896293, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49896293", "by": "lproven", "date": "2026-09-29", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I run Haiku, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Ubuntu, and Pop OS, and all of them go like stink and are daily-drivable", "excerpt": "Indeed. I know of two \"best laptops ever made\": Drew DeVault says it's the X200: https://drewdevault.com/blog/Fucking-laptops/ \u00ab The best laptop ever made is the ThinkPad X200, and I have two of them. \u00bb He has a very strong case. I own one. It is certainly one of the best ever. On the other hand, Brad Taunt says it is the X220: https://btxx.org/posts/x220/ \u00ab The X220 ThinkPad is the greatest laptop ever made and you\u2019", "context": "owns ThinkPad X200/X220 machines", "use_case": "daily use on ThinkPad X220", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google ending ChromeOS support two years early"}, {"id": 797541088, "item_id": 49846318, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49846318", "by": "qubex", "date": "2026-09-25", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I highly recommend you give Haiku a spin", "excerpt": "I highly recommend you give Haiku a spin\u2026 the remake 25 years in the making and counting (which is several multiples the actual duration of the system it is \u201cinspired by\u201d, but that\u2019s the nature of emulators and reproductions, isn\u2019t it?). At any rate, it really gives the look and feel of the system as it was back then. The design is somehow peak late nineties distilled down into a powerful concentrate. (Make sure you ", "context": "", "use_case": "retro BeOS-like OS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Pentium II at 600Mhz with Voodoo 3 Emulated on 86Box with M6 Mac Mini"}, {"id": 796911824, "item_id": 49806989, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49806989", "by": "jaapz", "date": "2026-09-22", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Only reason I used Haiku was when I made Opus 5 run Haiku agents", "excerpt": "Only reason I used Haiku was when I made Opus 5 run Haiku agents just to rewrite Opus 5's garbage output into something legible", "context": "", "use_case": "rewriting output as subagent", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Opus 5.5"}, {"id": 794771360, "item_id": 49673210, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49673210", "by": "mariocesar", "date": "2026-09-12", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have an 'ask' alias in my shell that just uses Haiku. I use it daily for pretty much everything", "excerpt": "I have an 'ask' alias in my shell that just uses Haiku. I use it daily for pretty much everything For more long work, I now use Fable to create a PLAN.md. I tell it to make a plan that will be executed by other models, and most of the time it ends up choosing Opus or Sonnet. I didn't start doing this recently. Before that, I would just use the top model for everything. Splitting the work across different models depen", "context": "", "use_case": "quick shell queries", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?"}, {"id": 793502833, "item_id": 49593927, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49593927", "by": "dxjxjdjsssb", "date": "2026-09-07", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "a skill/script combo suitable for Haiku to accomplish the task, and now that task happens at minimal cost", "excerpt": "I use skills for offloading work onto subagents. By configuring the skill to use a specific model it gets enforced at the harness instead of depending on the good will of the orchestrating model to actually delegate. This also saves context. Today Fable had to fetch a zip file from a web page with a eula prompt, then get at a file in a disk image in the zip. This is something that will need to happen a lot as part of", "context": "", "use_case": "cheap subagent tasks", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?"}, {"id": 792132945, "item_id": 49508309, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49508309", "by": "gen2brain", "date": "2026-08-31", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I added Haiku because it looks and performs so well", "excerpt": "I am working on the IUP fork (UI toolkit) , with many new drivers/backends and features, and, of course, I added Haiku because it looks and performs so well, it works differently from what I used to see, making it even more interesting. The result: the absolute king in memory usage was the Win32 driver, like 4M for Hello World; in Haiku, that is 3M! For comparison, the GTK4 driver uses 40M; GTK3 and Qt6 ~15. WinUI is", "context": "", "use_case": "IUP backend target", "switched_from": "", "story": "Haiku R1/beta6 has been released"}, {"id": 792102096, "item_id": 49506381, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49506381", "by": "przemub", "date": "2026-08-31", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I understand the policy at least for the main Haiku repo code.", "excerpt": "You can host an alternative repo, with the packaging system it has it's as easy as on any run-of-the-mill Linux distro. The easiest way is just to store your recipes in a repo (I do that: https://github.com/przemub/haikuports-nonfree) but a binary repo can also be easily hosted. In the hybrid architecture Haiku kernel has, drivers can also be loaded at run time. I think it's a good idea, much better than shoehorning ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Haiku R1/beta6 has been released"}, {"id": 792080608, "item_id": 49505038, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49505038", "by": "yoshamano", "date": "2026-08-31", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it installed and booted without any issues", "excerpt": "I just so happen to have a 2008 Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro doing nothing. I followed the directions at: https://www.haiku-os.org/guides/uefi_booting/ and it installed and booted without any issues.", "context": "", "use_case": "Old Mac install", "switched_from": "", "story": "Haiku R1/beta6 has been released"}, {"id": 792052192, "item_id": 49503262, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49503262", "by": "ethin", "date": "2026-08-30", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I would love to give Haiku a try. Indeed, I've looked at it's code before (it's quite good, or was, last time I looked at it).", "excerpt": "I would love to give Haiku a try. Indeed, I've looked at it's code before (it's quite good, or was, last time I looked at it). What prevents me is accessibility. To be fair to Haiku, implementing an actually good accessibility stack is genuinely a nightmare that AI isn't going to help much with, were you to ask it to help you with it. Primarily because many accessibility stacks (UIA, MSAA, IAccessible2, AT-SPI, ...) ", "context": "cares about accessibility, likely screen reader user", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Haiku R1/beta6 has been released"}, {"id": 792050592, "item_id": 49503162, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49503162", "by": "omoikane", "date": "2026-08-30", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Menu that does different things based on modifier keys seems novel to me", "excerpt": "> User interface and user experience improvements https://www.haiku-os.org/get-haiku/r1beta6/release-notes/#:~:text=Live%20updating%20of%20menus%20on%20modifier%20key%20changes Menu that does different things based on modifier keys seems novel to me, is BeOS or Haiku the first interface where menus take modifier keys into account?", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Haiku R1/beta6 has been released"}, {"id": 792035840, "item_id": 49502240, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49502240", "by": "jmmv", "date": "2026-08-30", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "impressed by the speed and the reasonable availability of software", "excerpt": "I tried Haiku recently on a not-super-old PC and was impressed by the speed and the reasonable availability of software. I then wished I could run this on my old Powerbook G4 because nothing else seems to run there anymore with ease, and this seems like the perfect desktop OS for such old machines. And it turns out there is now a fork for PPC: https://github.com/ActionRetro/Tabby-PPC ! (Why a fork? Because it's prima", "context": "has an old Powerbook G4", "use_case": "desktop OS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Haiku R1/beta6 has been released"}, {"id": 792030656, "item_id": 49501916, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49501916", "by": "0x1d7", "date": "2026-08-30", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Looks like a user that was porting to ARM64 disagrees with the Haiku AI stance", "excerpt": "Looks like a user that was porting to ARM64 disagrees with the Haiku AI stance: https://github.com/rcarmo/haiku-arm64-build#haiku-arm64-build-environment", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Haiku R1/beta6 has been released"}, {"id": 792025571, "item_id": 49501598, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49501598", "by": "tikhonj", "date": "2026-08-30", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "", "excerpt": "This is one of the things I like with NixOS: it's easy enough to add new packages and patch existing ones that stuff like this can either live in the core nixpkgs repo or be managed through some community-supported overlay. (Great example of this is [nixos-hardware](https://github.com/nixos/nixos-hardware) which shares settings and fixes for specific laptop models and the like, or [emacs-overlay](https://github.com/n", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Haiku R1/beta6 has been released"}, {"id": 792024384, "item_id": 49501524, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49501524", "by": "accrual", "date": "2026-08-30", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love the UI style of HaikuOS", "excerpt": "I love the UI style of HaikuOS, so cool to see new ports like Firefox and a Go runtime in this release. Congrats to the team!", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Haiku R1/beta6 has been released"}, {"id": 792015216, "item_id": 49500951, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49500951", "by": "LeFantome", "date": "2026-08-30", "version": null, "stance": "compare", "quote": "But honestly Linux felt faster on this machine. The memory usage was about the same", "excerpt": "The problem is, Linux is improving too quickly for Haiku. I have been looking forward to running Haiku as a daily driver for years. And it is almost there. It may even be good enough now for many people. Modern browsers really help. But I was amazed recently when I put Haiku on an old laptop that was already running Linux. I remember Haiku being so lean and fast and multi-tasking so smoothly. But honestly Linux felt ", "context": "long-time Haiku fan", "use_case": "daily driver OS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Haiku R1/beta6 has been released"}, {"id": 790596322, "item_id": 49412270, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49412270", "by": "tonyarkles", "date": "2026-08-23", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Haiku subagents", "excerpt": "Something I\u2019ve found comparing between Fable and Opus is that Fable has impressively good analysis skills, but both of them seem to go way way overboard with \u201cpresent state\u201d comments \u201c# We\u2019re making this change here because of this issue blah blah, here\u2019s what you need to know about np.percentile, blah blah\u201d that I end up significantly pruning before making a PR. I let it do the same style verbose commit messages (be", "context": "", "use_case": "subagents", "switched_from": "", "story": "Fable and the end of the free lunch"}, {"id": 785814161, "item_id": 49113385, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49113385", "by": "baq", "date": "2026-07-30", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "I use sonnet as a smart grep and haiku never", "excerpt": "I use sonnet as a smart grep and haiku never and that\u2019s only when I have to use Anthropic at all", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT\u20115.6"}, {"id": 784642880, "item_id": 49040180, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49040180", "by": "m0do1", "date": "2026-07-24", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "As a long time BeOS fan (and user back in the day) I really enjoy reading about progress on Haiku.", "excerpt": "As a long time BeOS fan (and user back in the day) I really enjoy reading about progress on Haiku. Similarly cool as the Half-Life 2 port is the work on the ARM platform. With early support for M1 Macs (https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/my-haiku-arm64-progress/19044/30) and Raspberry Pi 500+ (https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/my-haiku-arm64-progress/19044/83).", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS"}, {"id": 783961489, "item_id": 48997593, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48997593", "by": "ryanckulp", "date": "2026-07-21", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "the estimate you quoted is based on Haiku when we launched", "excerpt": "we can only estimate token <> cost in our cloud agent, but we also OSS'd the skills and in those cases the cost is ~$0 (part of one's LLM subscription): https://github.com/usetrmnl/trmnl-agent-skills the agent also has a model switcher, and the estimate you quoted is based on Haiku when we launched.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "AI Agent \u2013 TRMNL"}, {"id": 780430743, "item_id": 48776921, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48776921", "by": "jarodrh", "date": "2026-07-03", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "My model/agent pool consists of Sonnet, GPT 5.*, Gemini, Haiku, Composer 2.5", "excerpt": "Orchestration works very well for me, but not in the way most people seem to be pushing for, with middlemen scoring and routing every request. I'm not sure I agree with that direction. For coding agents the routing problem is mostly solved at the config level, the harness already lets you pin models per role (done via subagents), and that covers most of what a per-request router promises. Three things have happened t", "context": "", "use_case": "cheap fast mechanical tasks", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?"}, {"id": 779809697, "item_id": 48738106, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48738106", "by": "ricardobeat", "date": "2026-06-30", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Haiku a lot for agent workflows", "excerpt": "The point is that Sonnet at medium or even low will be smart enough for most daily tasks. You\u2019re defining \u201cworth using\u201d as if you always need the highest performance possible, which is what these benchmarks measure, but most work doesn\u2019t need it. You\u2019ll pay more to get the same result. Sonnet 4.5 is very popular as a main model currently, this is a free upgrade. I use Haiku a lot for agent workflows, if I can get bet", "context": "", "use_case": "agent workflows", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Sonnet 5"}, {"id": 776614320, "item_id": 48538395, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48538395", "by": "mjmas", "date": "2026-06-15", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "For example Haiku OS has a compatibility layer", "excerpt": "It also allows implementing a different display interface. For example Haiku OS has a compatibility layer: https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/xlibe-an-xlib-x11-compatibility-layer-for-haiku/11692", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Yserver: A modern X11 server written in Rust"}, {"id": 774039488, "item_id": 48377468, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48377468", "by": "pkaye", "date": "2026-06-02", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Because the Haiku model is quite cheap but doesn't screw up too often I used it for interactive coding", "excerpt": "Because the Haiku model is quite cheap but doesn't screw up too often I used it for interactive coding for my existing projects on the older copilot plans. For simple features I don't have a full plan worked out. I write a bit of code then tell the model in a short line prompt what it should do. Sometimes I put temporary comments in the code to give it guidance. Generally if the code change is within a file or packag", "context": "", "use_case": "interactive coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft's MAI-Code-1-Flash Scores 51% SWE-Bench Pro with Just 5B Active Params"}, {"id": 771147264, "item_id": 48196704, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48196704", "by": "cccbbbaaa", "date": "2026-05-19", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Going by CVEs, Haiku is more secure than OpenBSD.", "excerpt": "Going by CVEs, Haiku is more secure than OpenBSD. Linux has had strong kernel-level crypto enabled by default on major distributions for years, see AF_ALG or LUKS. On the wiki page you provided, the only thing that really stands out at the kernel level is KARL, which has a dubious utility: https://isopenbsdsecu.re/mitigations/karl/ It is not even up to date: strlcpy(3) and strlcat(3) were implemented in glibc 3 years", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenBSD 7.9 Released"}, {"id": 771056353, "item_id": 48191022, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48191022", "by": "lproven", "date": "2026-05-19", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "", "excerpt": "> Windows 11's UI seems easier on the eyes than Haiku now. I feel the exact reverse. I find modern flat UIs ugly and hard to operate, which makes them more tiring. It is not just me: https://grumpy.website/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now"}, {"id": 770961408, "item_id": 48185088, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48185088", "by": "easeout", "date": "2026-05-18", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It's a delight to use, if a little esoteric at first.", "excerpt": "It's a delight to use, if a little esoteric at first. After the experiment phase, the software ecosystem comes up fairly limited. But I recommend visiting. Here are some more impressions: https://kconner.com/2025/03/09/haiku-os-study-path.html", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now"}, {"id": 770953392, "item_id": 48184587, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48184587", "by": "SyneRyder", "date": "2026-05-18", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "On Intel and for some minimal uses, it probably can be a daily driver.", "excerpt": "Depends on your needs. On Intel and for some minimal uses, it probably can be a daily driver. There's some days where I've used Haiku exclusively. Not many, and probably days when I went without checking my email, but it has happened. But it isn't ready for any kind of real mainstream daily driver use, no.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now"}, {"id": 770949296, "item_id": 48184331, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48184331", "by": "larholm", "date": "2026-05-18", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "You can also try out a demo in your browser at https://distrosea.com/select/haiku/", "excerpt": "You can also try out a demo in your browser at https://distrosea.com/select/haiku/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now"}, {"id": 770943856, "item_id": 48183991, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48183991", "by": "selectodude", "date": "2026-05-18", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "not sure anybody can use Haiku as a daily driver", "excerpt": "I\u2019m not sure anybody can use Haiku as a daily driver, regardless of platform.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now"}, {"id": 770942176, "item_id": 48183886, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48183886", "by": "shevy-java", "date": "2026-05-18", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "is not quite on the same level as daily driver", "excerpt": "Can we use that as daily driver? A clever developer making things work on his or her own hardware, is not quite on the same level as daily driver. (Granted, Linux would also have to run on M1 Macs. But I mean this more on the issue of same-hardware or comparable hardware level.)", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now"}, {"id": 770063040, "item_id": 48128940, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48128940", "by": "Worf", "date": "2026-05-13", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "There's almost nothing written about Haiku's security", "excerpt": "There's almost nothing written about Haiku's security [0]. Am I missing something? I also don't understand this: > Our infrastructure contains sensitive personal user data, and we aggressively keep this information private on a need-to-know basis at all times. What do they mean by \"infrastructure\" here? Do they mean each installation or their site, bug tracker and so on (the usual interpretation of \"infrastructure\")?", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Haiku"}, {"id": 760219024, "item_id": 47513689, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47513689", "by": "rebolek", "date": "2026-03-24", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it's very nice and very usable system based directly on BeOS.", "excerpt": "If you like BeOS, take a look at Haiku https://www.haiku-os.org/ , it's very nice and very usable system based directly on BeOS.", "context": "", "use_case": "BeOS-like desktop OS", "switched_from": "", "story": "VitruvianOS \u2013 Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS"}, {"id": 759981395, "item_id": 47498837, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47498837", "by": "smallstepforman", "date": "2026-03-23", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I do enjoy Haiku the most", "excerpt": "There is always the one App which isnt available elsewhere that prevents migration. I\u2019ve been a full time Amiga user, BeOS user, OSX, user, currently I multiboot with Win11, Linux Mint and Haiku nightly, and Windows 11 still gets 99% screen time due to the one App. All other apps I use daily are cross platform. For everyone its a different App. For me, Visual Studio 2022 and its world class visual debugger that inspe", "context": "", "use_case": "desktop OS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Scott Hanselman says he's working on Windows local accounts"}, {"id": 756162273, "item_id": 47260142, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47260142", "by": "LargoLasskhyfv", "date": "2026-03-05", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "the beta isn't usable as daily driver, at least not for me", "excerpt": "Apart from your repeated rants about the trauma you have suffered from early BTRFS, which goes against my (later) experience with it, and therfore against my grain, your comparison of the speeds of various distros triggered me the same way. > If you'd tried BeOS on x86 and you actually remembered,... I did, and I do remember. It was exceptional at its time, but more or less useless, depending on your needs, and avail", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Bootc and OSTree: Modernizing Linux System Deployment"}]}