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24 alternatives to How much of the Linux kernel is written by AI?
Three months after the Linux kernel started requiring an Assisted-by: tag, 166 of 26,044 mainline commits carry one. 0.64% of activity. One model dominates. Data from torvalds/linux and lore.kernel.org.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Linux turns 30, search kernal commit messages
2021 · linux-commits-search.typesense.org · its alternatives →
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🌐 The Internet Computer! Free, Open-Source, and Self-Hostable. - HeyPuter/puter
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I pretty much always have a kernel project going on, and have been that way for decades. Over the past couple of years, that's been Anos, which has gotten further along than any of my previous hobby kernels, supporting IPC, multitasking, SMP (x86-64 only right now) and running on real hardware. LLMs (mostly Claude Code) have been used during development, but I learned early on that it's not _great_ at code at this level, so I've restricted its use to mostly documentation and tests. There's _a little_ AI code in the user space, but I have a strict "no AI code" rule in the kernel itself. I…
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Search through commits from the Linux Kernel git repository instantly with Typesense. Celebrating 30 Years of Linux and 1 Million Linux Kernel Commits.
2021 · linux-commits-search.typesense.org · its alternatives →
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Almost eight years ago I launched an online “Linux sysadmin course for newbies” here at HN. It was a side-project that went well, but never generated enough money to allow me to fully commit to leaving the Day Job. After surviving the Big C, and getting made redundant I thought I might improve and relaunch it commercially – but my doctors are a pessimistic bunch, so it looked like I didn’t have the time. Instead, I rejigged/relaunched it via a Reddit forum this February as free and open - and have now gathered a team of helpers to ensure that it keeps going each month even after I can’t…
2020 · its alternatives →
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Digest Diff▲105Let your commit history tell its story using the power of AI
2023 · digestdiff.com · its alternatives →
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The New Waydev▲299Measure the full AI SDLC. From token to production.
Apr 2026 · waydev.co · its alternatives →
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Linux tool to show progress for cp, mv, dd, ... (formerly known as cv) - Xfennec/progress
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I've always wanted a better way to explore the authorship data embedded in a Git commit log. I'm having fun building a CLI tool to do this. It's a bit like the "Contributors" tab on Github that shows you how many commits each contributor has made but much faster and with many more options. If you get a chance to try it out, please let me know. I'd love to hear feedback and suggestions. Thank you!
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Minimal kernel to make any AI coding agent stateful. Clone, point your agent, go. - oguzbilgic/agent-kernel
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Interactive timeline of every major Large Language Model. Filterable by open/closed source, searchable, 54 organizations tracked.
Feb 2026 · llm-timeline.com · its alternatives →
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We are excited to release SAFA's generated documentation for the Linux Kernel. You will be able to view: -Project Overview (Overview, Features, Entities, Dataflow) -Code Files and their summaries (518 Code Files) -Functional Requirements (202 Functional Requirements) -Features (100 Features) -Mapped Relationships with explanations Learn more at https://safa.ai
2024 · app.safa.ai · its alternatives →
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A Linux desktop in the cloud built for Machine Learning
2016 · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I've been using Claude Code etc. for nearly all my work lately, and I wanted to see how many of my commits it was actually co-authoring. So I made this little tool to visualize my usage. You log in with Github (read-only), it scans your commits from the last year, and visualizes how many came from Claude, Cursor, or any tool that adds Co-Authored-By trailer to the commit message. Caveat: not all tools add this trailer, so this doesn't include e.g. Codex. Still, hope you find it interesting!
Mar 2026 · technically-your-name-is-on-it.btao.org · its alternatives →
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Over the last year or so I have worked on a research linux distribution in my spare time. It’s not a distribution for researchers (like Scientific Linux), but my personal playground project to research linux distribution development, i.e. try out fresh ideas.
2019 · michael.stapelberg.ch · its alternatives →
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I don't know Rust. Friday after work I realised that 90% of my IDE time now is just the commit/diff view — and even good IDEs feel heavy for that. So over the weekend I built a dedicated native tool for just that. Kyde is a macOS git commit + diff editor with one goal: be fast, do Git well. I'm curious whether anyone else mostly opens their IDE for git operations these days. It's open source, and there's a signed app in Releases.
Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A fast, rootless sandbox and virtual resource runtime for any workload, including untrusted and AI-generated code. Daemonless: a real, kernel-enforced container in ~3.5 ms from an OCI image, out of one static binary - getkern/kern
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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BareMetal for the private/public cloud. Contribute to ReturnInfinity/BareMetal-Cloud development by creating an account on GitHub.
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Stub based Ai powered Kernel
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2021 · play.axiom.co · its alternatives →
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linux kernel updater preferring git to patching. Contribute to somasis/lux development by creating an account on GitHub.
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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You know that old TI calculator you used in high school, then put in a box and forgot about? Have you ever wished you had an operating system for your calculator with preemptive multitasking, dynamic memory management, a tree filesystem conforming to the FHS, and all the comforts of Unix? Well, good news: that's totally a thing that exists. I've been working on my kernel for about three and a half years now and I'm looking for new contributors to help out. It's written entirely in z80 assembly, and it's both challenging and fun to work on. There's an IRC channel for contributors or people…
2014 · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, We are researchers from ETH Zurich interested in the real-world adoption and impact of Code Agents. To measure this, we built a dashboard, scraping all public PRs on GitHub, analyzing which are created by different code agents (Codex, Jules, Copilot, Devin, etc.), and measuring their merge rates, sliced by various repository and PR characteristics. https://insights.logicstar.ai Since mid-May, we've analyzed over 10 million PRs and already found some interesting trends: Usage is high, but shallow. Agents submit ~7% of all PRs overall, but only ~1–2% on popular repos. Most…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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