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Rivet
Company blog · rivet.dev/blog · on HN as NathanFlurryprogrammingsystems
Rivet is the company blog at rivet.dev, writing about programming and systems. Since 2025, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “AgentOS: A portable open-source operating system for agents”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link rivet.dev for its actors, an open-source take on Cloudflare Durable Objects, and its comparison pages. The comments point to these docs and compare Rivet with similar self-hosted projects.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A fast, high-density and scalable orchestrator for every workload an agent needs. Run agents, workflows, and sandboxes as durable Actors.
Most-linked posts?
- AgentOS: A portable open-source operating system for agents2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-01
- Show HN: Vbare – a simple alternative to Protobuf for schema evolution2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-23
- WebSockets for Vercel Functions: How We Built It2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-20
What Hacker News says?
We’re doing this on https://rivet.dev now. I did not realize how much context bloat we had since we were using Tailwind.
Comment linking /
on “Use the Accept Header to Serve Markdown Instead of HTML to LLMs”Submitted WebSockets for Vercel Functions: How We Built It as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThis looks really nice! How would you compare it to Rivet? I think they were also originally pitched as an open source version of durable objects: https://rivet.dev/actors/compare/rivet-actors-vs-cloudflare-... Also are you able to self-host this outside of GCP (from the docs it seems like it is locked to GCP but I'm not that familiar with it so maybe not)?
Comment linking /actors/compare/rivet-actors-vs-cloudflare-durable-objects/
on “Show HN: Durable Actors – OSS Durable Objects with configurable compute”Submitted AgentOS: A portable open-source operating system for agents as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThis is similar to what rivet (1) does, perhaps focusing more on stateless than rivet does (1) https://www.rivet.dev/docs/actors/
Comment linking /docs/actors/
on “OpenWorkers: Self-Hosted Cloudflare Workers in Rust”Submitted We Reverse-Engineered Docker Sandbox's Undocumented MicroVM API as a story · 2 points
HN discussionCheck out https://rivet.dev/actors/
Comment linking /actors/
on “Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects”Submitted Actors: The Four Properties That Eliminate Complexity as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> However, it's only meant for local systems. Once you need to connect over a network or robustly handle simultaneous requests That’s not really accurate any longer. Mostly depends on how you layout your tables & files. If you shard the databases then multiple machines can act as writers for their shard. You can also split read requests from write requests and have read only machines scale up/down as much as you’d l…
Comment linking /blog/2025-02-16-sqlite-on-the-server-is-misunderstood/
on “Learning a few things about running SQLite”Submitted Show HN: Vbare – a simple alternative to Protobuf for schema evolution as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Infrastructure for software that thinks – OSS Workers, Durable Objects as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted We Built the First Zero-Disk, S3-Tiered Storage Engine for SQLite as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rivet's WebAssembly Agent OS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted We Reverse-Engineered Docker Sandbox's Undocumented MicroVM API as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted We Built WebSocket Servers for Vercel Functions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vbare: A simple alternative to Protobuf and Cap'n Proto for schema evolution as a story · 1 points
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