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The Thirty Million Line Problem

Casey Muratori's long talk arguing that modern software has ballooned to tens of millions of lines because of hardware and OS diversity. He proposes a stable ISA for entire system-on-a-chip packages and recalls when games shipped with their own boot disk.

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Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it, long as it is, as an eye-opening rant on software complexity and why systems became so complicated.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Molly Rocket
Topic
software complexity
Format
talk
Level
intermediate
HN recommenders in dataset
11
HN mentions in dataset
20
Recommendation years in dataset
2018–2024

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • This may be a little off topic, but has anybody watched Casey Muratori's proposal on SoC ISAs[0]? The video is long, but it's worth watching all of it. It sounds to me like a SoC ISA could make docker obsolete. If it ever happens, anyway. …

    ropeadopepope on Hacker News · 2018-05
    In Docker is a dangerous gamble

  • Yes, modern computer systems are unbelievably complicated from the application level down to the hardware. The consequences are absolutely devastating. [VIDEO]

    henning on Hacker News · 2024-10
    In Show HN: One – A new React framework unifying web, native and local-first

  • I think the problem is that current OSes are too complicated. What does a common user really want? I'd say text editing, making presentations, multimedia, and browsing. While these sound like simple things, text editing usually happens in a Word-like format, which - from what …

    meuk on Hacker News · 2018-10
    In Systems Software Research is Irrelevant (2000) [pdf]

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