Hacker News Reader

Note the description: video is sped up 30x

Weird. It shouldn't be that slow. I've run Linux on a 486 16mhz which was definitely slower than an esp32 and it was performing just fine.

It probably wasn't Linux 5.0 though, was it?

There likely were also some nasty, performance-sacrificing hacks involved. A comment above mentions "booting a riscv vm".

It's running on a RISC-V emulator that's running on the ESP32 Xtensa. That would slow it down quite a lot.