Show HN: Kora – An AI-native OS layer written in 370k lines of Rust
We've been building this for ourselves over the last year. We wanted the computer from Star Trek, something you just talk to, that knows your context, controls your environment, and runs locally.<p>Our core belief is digital sovereignty in that you should own your context. Your conversations, files, voice, memory, and identity never leave your machine unless you explicitly choose to route through a cloud provider. No telemetry, no accounts, no data collection. The AI that knows the most about you should be the one you control completely.<p>Kora is an operating system layer built around an AI agent. On Linux it runs as the GUI directly in Wayland (OpenGL via femtovg). On macOS it's a native app with a Metal compositor.<p>It's not a chatbot wrapper, it's closer to a full OS where the AI is a first-class service. The stack is ~8 services running locally:<p>- UI: custom window manager with guest app compositing. Apps are standalone Rust binaries that communicate with th
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