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Intersting choices of names, Hubris and Humility. Combined with the style of the page, it gives to me a solemn and heavy feeling. Especially compared to most projects presented that tend to be very "positive energy and emojis". Their website is also beautiful https://oxide.computer/. Though I wonder who's the target for this. Is this for cloud provider themselves, for people that self host, for hosters? For everyone?

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I think the names are very clever.

The OS is named Hubris. Building a new Operating System does take a lot of confidence.

The debugger is named Humility. It can be humbling to know your program is not working correctly and use a tool to discover how it is broken.

Impatience would be a great name for the task scheduler. (Because you want your task to run NOW!)

Laziness would be a great name for a hardware-based watchdog timer. (Because you keep on putting it off / resetting it until later.)

Compare: https://www.threevirtues.com/

Cantrill has talked quite a few times about this, it is for people that still build their own data centers.

Their podcasts is similarly interesting even for me who has no real (professional) interest or knowledge about building computers.

Speaking of interesting names, their control plane is called Omicron: https://github.com/oxidecomputer/omicron

The target market is users that want to build their own cloud infrastructure, but don't have the scale required to go directly to ODM's to have their own custom designs manufactured.

> Their website is also beautiful

But horribly broken for me (mobile firefox), with text cut off at borders and overlaid by images.

Same is true in mobile Safari (iOS) but I'll cut them some slack as long as it doesn't work in Chrome on iOS (since then it would be a Chrome specific hack, since Chrome on iOS uses the same engine as Safari.)

Apologies, pushing a fix now. I broke this earlier today!

Much better - thanks!

When Cantrill and his team works on something, HN listens, and for good reason. Startups like Oxide show that there's room for a lot of innovation still on a smaller scale, even within fields like HW.

It's really a breath of fresh air.

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