Show HN: Ecdeos – P2P Web/Native Distributed OS on Entity Core Protocol

Ecdeos, a peer-to-peer distributed operating system built on the Entity Core Protocol, was posted to Hacker News on August 25, 2026 by a developer going by "billatbillslab." Per the Show HN post, the project is a research prototype aimed at P2P management of devices and applications across platforms.

The system is built on a Tauri Rust/WASM browser engine with a Rust backend. According to the Show HN post, it ships with more than 20 Entity-Apps — including games, music, art tools, and basic utilities — each running in isolated iframe sandboxes and written in JavaScript using a custom engine. A handful of Entity-Native compute apps run as Rust WASM peers. The Tauri native backend supports SQLite storage, TCP, and WebSockets; the browser environment supports WebSockets and WebRTC for P2P chat, file, and entity transfer.

Ecdeos is accessible at ecdeos.org, one node in a constellation of peer sites. The network operates in what the author calls "coral reef" mode — no live peer is required at runtime. Sites are cached locally in each peer's storage after an initial fetch, and peers can sign and host their data on standard commodity hosting. A registry example is hosted at entitychurchregistry.org, and additional background is available at entitycoreprotocol.org and entitychurchfoundation.org.

The author draws comparisons to Plan 9, Erlang/BEAM, IPFS, ATProto, and Nostr, describing Ecdeos's distinctive features as a content-addressed data model, full decentralization, and a capability-based security model built around the concept that "everything is an entity." A parallel Go implementation operates a separate workbench for compiling and testing the Entity System compute language, per the Show HN post. The project is developed under Bills Lab, described as a research arm exploring the underlying technology from multiple angles at billslab.com.

The stated long-term goal, per the Show HN post, is to scale P2P device and application management from individual personal use up through multi-user organizations with internal service stacks and eventually to internet-scale public or federated networks. The author notes that almost all code and content is AI-generated, characterizes the project as still early, and says it needs stress testing — though the design has held up to initial use. No funding, team size, or timeline for further milestones was disclosed.