It seems that video has been posted to HN twice, but didn't attract any comments either time, sadly.

I don't have the energy to watch a 90 minute talk, but some skipping around finds a bit more detail about what is in the plan:

https://youtu.be/vvZA9n3e5pc?t=1299

The theme seems to be giving the operator of the computer a lot more control - eliminating opaque binary blobs, exposing the hardware more directly, etc. I can't tell if this is a particular bee in the founders' bonnets, or a real market demand, or if they know about some scary threat they can't talk about.

Whilst this is definitely cool, and something that will get a lot of people on HN super pumped, it doesn't sound like something any company i have worked at would really care about. Unless these machines also deliver significantly better performance. But then, those companies were not hyperscalers.

My personal take on this bit is that it's not something that customers care about directly, but impedes overall quality, which they do care about. We'll just see how it all goes, of course!

Do I understand correctly that the software layer of Oxide's product will be a hypervisor running VMs with hardware virtualization? If so, that's super surprising to hear from @bcantrill, considering how many talks he gave about running containers without VMs.

It is a bit too early to get into details like this, to be honest. It'll all become more clear publicly as more work gets done :)

Just FYI, in trying to sign up for the email list on your website, I got this error in one attempt:

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Hey! Thanks for the heads up, can you email Jess [at] oxide [dot] computer and I will add you and try to figure it out! Thanks!