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I was just super impressed by the design of the landing page at https://planetscale.com/ Some other highlights I've seen lately: Pachama https://pachama.com/ Neuralink https://neur…

I've only scratched the surface of low-level systems (mostly x86 and Unix), but their complexity is mind-boggling. We've evolved directly from a system designed in the 70s, when we…

Great points! 1) To me, security goes hand in hand with your point on mental models. It's hard enough to imagine how a bad actor might abuse a simple system you know well. Scale th…

I often see people saying things like: "If you want a secure OS, you'd need to be thinking about security from the beginning." "The HTML/CSS/JS stack is a mess, we need to rebuild …

Blows my mind. What sorts of optimizations can you do in assembly better than a good C compiler could? I'm wondering what % performance improvement he saw from doing it this way.