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Show HN: CapOS – A responsibility-gated OS stack with signed process execution
We’ve built a functional prototype for an operating system layer that rejects the classic trust model.
Every process, network access, and system action is explicitly scope-bound to a signed capability token (CapToken) – backed by a cryptographic wallet and domain-specific responsibility structure.
Key Components:
CapToken authentication for all system actions
CapAuditDaemon (feedback, incidents, signed system state)
Feedback replaces control – the system acts on effect, not permission
CapNFTs as soulbound responsibility certificates
VPN routing via chain-verified nodes (CapVPNRegistry.sol)
Whitebook & mathematical formalization published on Zenodo
No ACLs, no root, no anonymous processes.
Only signed, trackable responsibility. Period.
GitHub: https://github.com/Xtothepowerofinfinity https://github.com/Xtothepowerofinfinity
Docs/Whitebook: https://zenodo.org/communities/xtothepowerofinfinity https://zenodo.org/communities/xtothepowerofinfinity
Feedback kills control. Power demands responsibility.
- cyberax 2y ago> X^∞ - Postmoral and Emotionless: Mathematical Foundations of Ethical Governance as a Self-Reinforcing System > The Auctor Ah, perhaps they might be interested in publishing my monograph: "Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity"?
- Der_Auctor 2y agoYou're right to invoke Sokal – he exposed what happens when structure is absent, but language remains. X^∞ does the opposite: structure without flourish. The Cap system isn't meant to sound good – it’s designed to enforce responsibility without ideology, emotion, or rank. We’re not postmodern. We’re postmoral.
- dwb 2y agoI’m interested in capability systems, have wondered about a project like this before, and you may well be onto something, but the self-important (and, as far as I got, insubstantial) philosophy is extremely off-putting.
- LargoLasskhyfv 2y agoWhere is the bootable image? I seem to smell a faint whiff of Xanadu.