Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?
by DustinBrett on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @11:31PM
(#46628056)
https://dustinbrett.com - Spent years working on my own personal website which is also a desktop environment in the browser. Source @ https://github.com/DustinBrett/daedalOS
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Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?
by nickandbro on Thursday January 15, 2026 @12:01AM
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Pretty cool, like your carpe diem post
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?
by coda_ on Thursday January 15, 2026 @01:12AM
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Amazing! Thanks for sharing this. Lots of nostalgia in there.
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?
by sniner on Thursday January 15, 2026 @02:08AM
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This is incredible !
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?
by yia648 on Thursday January 15, 2026 @08:16AM
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cool
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?
by rawxtl on Thursday January 15, 2026 @09:01AM
(#46632651)
I tried opening your site inside of your site and then one more inside that and it stoped. total recursions achieved 1, but man was it cool. Loved it
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?
by unsungNovelty on Thursday January 15, 2026 @09:45AM
(#46633227)
I opened like 3-4 times one inside the other and it worked for me though.
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?
by pcchristie on Thursday January 15, 2026 @08:33PM
(#46641935)
I got to 3, then opened one of his YouTube videos in the "bottom" browser. Nothing seemed to happen then the audio started playing and everything slowed to a crawl. After closing the tab the audio kept playing and my entire PC became unusable until I rebooted. I'm not even mad, I'm impressed!
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?
by p4bl0 on Friday January 16, 2026 @04:13PM
(#46652295)
I got to seven on my laptop using Firefox, but then it was too painfully slow to try to open another one. It ran smoothly up to the fifth level tho!
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?
by diggyhole on Thursday January 15, 2026 @10:12AM
(#46633627)
This is rad.
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?
by someguyiguess on Thursday January 15, 2026 @10:50AM
(#46634274)
I love your site!
I had the same concept for mine but it is Mac OS X Tiger (iOS on mobile breakpoints).
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?
by yesokayawesome on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @04:13PM
(#46697817)
damn, i pressed cmd+w and accidentally shut down your mac sorry
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?
by kls0e on Thursday January 15, 2026 @12:56PM
(#46636459)
excellent!
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?
by abronan on Thursday January 15, 2026 @01:29PM
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Oh no.. it has 3D Pinball Space Cadet and Doom, here goes my night :)
Amazing work on this website! It encourages exploration and navigating the folders to see all the content.
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?
by guax on Thursday January 15, 2026 @04:11PM
(#46639368)
It felt like using someone elses computer and exploring their bedroom.
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?
by akst on Thursday January 15, 2026 @06:18PM
(#46640835)
I love this
I made something like with a similar aesthetic a few years ago but themed after win95 (which seems to be hardly unique these days). But it had a secret gimmick where aspects of it were implemented with in terms of itself (mostly, file icons could be edited within app and you could see them update on the desktop).
I had grand plans for it but they never eventuated.
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?
by vjay15 on Friday January 16, 2026 @02:39AM
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THAT WAS SO COOL, VERY EPIC
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?
by redbell on Friday January 16, 2026 @04:07AM
(#46644545)
I'm a big fan of this project! I've been following it for years now. It was submitted a couple of times to HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29779753
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?
by drussilla7 on Friday January 16, 2026 @04:30AM
(#46644674)
really nice project, the UI in the browser feels way more responsive than my Win 11 nowadays....
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?
by botanrice on Friday January 16, 2026 @10:17AM
(#46647218)
this is super impressive! agreed with other commenter, this was a smoother experience than a real windows os LMAO. thanks for sharing <3
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?
by kypro on Friday January 16, 2026 @10:20AM
(#46647255)
Christ. Nice work man.
I clicked the link and assumed that you must have been using some JS OS UI library because of how nice it was.
This is impressive!
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?
by anon_anon12 on Friday January 16, 2026 @03:03PM
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Coool