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bVisor

Embedded application kernel, inspired by gVisor

3Distinct people
3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
220GitHub stars
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What it is

Embedded application kernel, inspired by gVisor

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 12:54:37 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by day3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2026-02-07 05:03:52 UTC to 2026-02-23 17:56:52 UTC.

012026-02-07 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-02-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsFeb 72026-02-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-02-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-02-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-02-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-02-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-02-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-02-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-02-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-02-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-02-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-02-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-02-14 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-02-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-02-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-02-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-02-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsFeb 152026-02-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-02-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-02-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-02-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-02-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-02-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-02-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-02-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-02-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-02-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-02-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-02-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-02-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-02-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-02-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-02-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsFeb 23

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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Feb 72026-02-07 00:00:00 UTC2026-02-08 00:00:00 UTC101
Feb 82026-02-08 00:00:00 UTC2026-02-09 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 92026-02-09 00:00:00 UTC2026-02-10 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 102026-02-10 00:00:00 UTC2026-02-11 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 112026-02-11 00:00:00 UTC2026-02-12 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 122026-02-12 00:00:00 UTC2026-02-13 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 132026-02-13 00:00:00 UTC2026-02-14 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 142026-02-14 00:00:00 UTC2026-02-15 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 152026-02-15 00:00:00 UTC2026-02-16 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 162026-02-16 00:00:00 UTC2026-02-17 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 172026-02-17 00:00:00 UTC2026-02-18 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 182026-02-18 00:00:00 UTC2026-02-19 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 192026-02-19 00:00:00 UTC2026-02-20 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 202026-02-20 00:00:00 UTC2026-02-21 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 212026-02-21 00:00:00 UTC2026-02-22 00:00:00 UTC101
Feb 222026-02-22 00:00:00 UTC2026-02-23 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 232026-02-23 00:00:00 UTC2026-02-24 00:00:00 UTC110

What Hacker News says

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edunteman·Feb 23, 2026Submission

Show HN: BVisor – An Embedded Bash Sandbox, 2ms Boot, Written in Zig

bVisor is an SDK and runtime for safely executing bash commands directly on your host machine. We built it on the belief that "sandbox" doesn't need to mean shipping off to remote sandbox products, or spinning up local VMs / containers. Sometimes, you just want to run that bash command locally. bVisor boots a sandbox from user-space without special permissions, powered by seccomp user notifier. This allows us to intercept syscalls from guest processes and selectively virtualize them to block privilege escalation, isolate process visibility, and keep filesystem changes isolated per sandbox (copy-on-write). Sandboxes boot in 2ms, and can run arbitrary binaries at native speed (with minor overhead per syscall). This approach is heavily inspired by Google's gVisor. As of today, bVisor supports most filesystem operations, basic file I/O, and c
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an run complex binaries such as python interpreters. It is packaged as a Typescript SDK and installable via npm. There's much to still implement (such as outbound network access to support 'curl', shipping a python SDK, etc), but we wanted to share it here for feedback and anyone who'd be able to make use of the current featureset!
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