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1. The fact that it reacts to the pressure on my Wacom tablet puts it above many desktop tools

   Recommends · Mar 2026 · in “Moss is a pixel canvas where every brush is a tiny program”

2. a drawing toy where each brush is a tiny script that knows about every pixel on the canvas

   Recommends · Mar 2026

3. This is very nice. I am astounded that my Surface Pro stylus works well with the brushes

   Recommends · Mar 2026 · in “Moss is a pixel canvas where every brush is a tiny program”

4. each brush is a tiny script that knows about every pixel on the canvas

   Recommends · Mar 2026 · in “Moss is a pixel canvas where every brush is a tiny program”

5. This is the most fun I've had drawing with pixels since I was a kid

   Recommends · Mar 2026 · in “Moss is a pixel canvas where every brush is a tiny program”

6. I love how fun this is. It has so much personality.

   Recommends · Mar 2026 · in “Moss is a pixel canvas where every brush is a tiny program”

7. This is so much fun, and some an awesome idea.

   Recommends · Mar 2026 · in “Moss is a pixel canvas where every brush is a tiny program”

8. really love the site design, great job man

   Recommends · Mar 2026 · in “Moss is a pixel canvas where every brush is a tiny program”

9. I love the pixelated look and feel so much

   Recommends · Mar 2026 · in “Moss is a pixel canvas where every brush is a tiny program”

10. This is a seriously fun tool.

    Recommends · Mar 2026 · in “Moss is a pixel canvas where every brush is a tiny program”

11. Very cool project! I do have to admit - looking far, far into the future - I am a bit scared of a Linux ABI-compatible kernel with an MIT license.

    Mixed · Nov 2025 · in “Moss: a Rust Linux-compatible kernel in 26,000 lines of code”

12. You can get results a billion times better than the horrible, disgusting look of ChatGPT in less than a couple of seconds

    Recommends · Oct 2026 · in “A practical guide to AI image generation, from diffusion to agents”

13. I hope this succeeds and causes a lowest-common denominator Linux ABI to exist that user-land can target

    Recommends · Nov 2025 · in “Moss: a Rust Linux-compatible kernel in 26,000 lines of code”

14. kudos for the interesting project, but please strongly consider a copyleft license moving forward

    Mixed · Nov 2025 · in “Moss: a Rust Linux-compatible kernel in 26,000 lines of code”

15. free/libre open source decentralised, distributed post-blockchain holochain-powered

    Recommends · Jun 2026 · in “UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s”

16. Moss is primarily built for this purpose which is now powering the Founding Agent.

    Recommends · Jun 2026 · in “Show HN: We put voice agent on our website, learned retrieval isn't bottleneck”

17. reasonably decent for local gen while still being relatively small for modest GPUs

    Recommends · Oct 2026 · in “A practical guide to AI image generation, from diffusion to agents”

18. With the help of Moss, we are able to make Founding Agent converse like human.

    Recommends · Jun 2026 · in “Show HN: We put voice agent on our website, learned retrieval isn't bottleneck”

19. i think this is a far better approach to bringing rust's advantages to linux

    Recommends · Nov 2025 · in “Moss: a Rust Linux-compatible kernel in 26,000 lines of code”

20. is a very effective tool at detecting plagiarism in coding assignments

    Recommends · Jun 2026 · in “Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes”

21. I've been VERY impressed with Moss' design capabilites out of the box.

    Recommends · Oct 2026 · in “FLUX 3 Image Klein”

22. Diorama-style VR works very well to reduce or even eliminate kinetosis

    Recommends · Oct 2026 · in “Way to Play Super Mario 64: On Apple Vision Pro”

23. This plus using Fil-C for the BusyBox commands is a nice combination

    Recommends · Nov 2025 · in “Moss: a Rust Linux-compatible kernel in 26,000 lines of code”

24. it's much faster than realtime so it should be usable for streaming

    Recommends · Jul 2026 · in “Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor”

25. The ability to easily verify the behavior of certain pieces of code

    Recommends · Nov 2025 · in “Moss: a Rust Linux-compatible kernel in 26,000 lines of code”

26. Very impressive and I like how accessible the codebase is.

    Recommends · Nov 2025 · in “Moss: a Rust Linux-compatible kernel in 26,000 lines of code”

27. It’s completely free, with no account required, ever.

    Recommends · Sep 2026

28. The game Moss did this well for a platformers.

    Recommends · Mar 2026 · in “VR Is Not Dead”

29. Moss looks much more general and powerful

    Recommends · Mar 2026 · in “Moss is a pixel canvas where every brush is a tiny program”

30. Diorama style games in VR/AR are awesome.

    Recommends · Oct 2026 · in “Way to Play Super Mario 64: On Apple Vision Pro”

31. this also seems not to be coded with ai

    Recommends · Feb 2026 · in “Moss: A Linux-compatible Rust async kernel, 3 months on”

32. It's way cooler on desktop than mobile.

    Mixed · Mar 2026 · in “Moss is a pixel canvas where every brush is a tiny program”

33. feels good (and is fast/small enough)

    Mixed · Aug 2026 · in “Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)”

34. the results were pretty blatant

    Recommends · Mar 2026 · in “We're Training Students to Write Worse to Prove They're Not Robots”

35. it looks very bandy/patchy

    Mixed · Mar 2026 · in “Moss is a pixel canvas where every brush is a tiny program”

36. really interesting project

    Recommends · Nov 2025 · in “Moss: a Rust Linux-compatible kernel in 26,000 lines of code”

37. The choice of MIT for a kernel feels like setting up the project to be cannibalized rather than contributed to.

    Criticizes · Nov 2025 · in “Moss: a Rust Linux-compatible kernel in 26,000 lines of code”

38. I've spent 5 minutes and clicked on every single thing I can find but I give up looking.

    Criticizes · Mar 2026 · in “Moss is a pixel canvas where every brush is a tiny program”

39. I wish this was licensed GPL instead of MIT. I'll avoid contribution, sorry!

    Criticizes · Nov 2025 · in “Moss: a Rust Linux-compatible kernel in 26,000 lines of code”

40. Great, an MIT license to accelerate planned obsolescence and hardware junk.

    Criticizes · Nov 2025 · in “Moss: a Rust Linux-compatible kernel in 26,000 lines of code”