Show HN: Hyperbutler – Docker on Windows without WSL, 320 MB at idle

Category: devtools

Tags: docker, windows, hyper-v, containers, go

Score: 7.5/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 8, Documentation: 8, Utility: 7)

Hyperbutler is a Docker-compatible engine for Windows 11 that runs a lightweight Linux VM via Hyper-V's Host Compute Service, bypassing WSL entirely. It offers significant resource savings over Docker Desktop—319 MiB idle RAM versus 1.7-2.7 GB—and includes novel features like a user-mode network stack, fast bind mounts, and an MCP server for AI agents. The project is technically ambitious and well-documented, but as a v0.1.0 release it remains experimental.

Target audience: backend developers and devops engineers on Windows

Repository: https://hyperbutler.dev/ · Go · Apache-2.0 · 15 stars

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