Stanford Seminar - The Soul of a New Machine: Rethinking the Computer

Why HN readers recommended it

HN points to it as the founders' own explanation of what Oxide is building and why, a frequent link whenever Oxide comes up.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Stanford Online

Topic

rack-scale server design

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

14

Recommendation years in dataset

2020–2025

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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• So, I was trying to keep this post short and to the point, but if you want a longer description, straight from the mouth of one of the founders, you may like [VIDEO] > Are they trying to offer folks AWS or Azure quality servers …

• The sibling comment is good. The problem that we're trying to solve is basically laid out on this slide: [VIDEO] The business is "we will be selling servers." You can't buy any yet, but in the future, you'll be able to. The talk lays out …

• For whatever it's worth, the talk I gave at Stanford in February[1] goes into (much) more detail -- and given some of your other comments here, you will find many aspects of the talk educational. [1] [VIDEO]