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Loophole Labs Blog
Company blog · loopholelabs.io/blog · on HN as loopholelabssystemsai
Loophole Labs Blog is the company blog at loopholelabs.io, writing about systems and ai. Since 2020, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Architect – Rethinking Spot Instances by Solving the Preemption Problem”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-03, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The Loophole Labs blog covers systems work: eBPF/XDP traffic handling, sharing remote GPUs with CUDA API interception, and Kubernetes pod hibernation. HN commenters cite its posts as related prior work.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Loophole Labs (est. 2021) builds Architect, a Kubernetes availability platform for running on spot, and AGX, an agent sandbox platform. Backed by Amplify Partners, Cervin Ventures, and Peak XV.
Most-linked posts?
- Architect – Rethinking Spot Instances by Solving the Preemption Problem3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-12-27
- Show HN: FRPC – A Faster, More Flexible RPC Framework3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-08-25
- An eBPF loophole: Using XDP for egress traffic2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-11-04
- Ollama Doesn't Know Its GPU Is on Another Machine2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-20
- The Math Changed: Rewriting Stale Open Source in the AI Era2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-26
What Hacker News says?
This reminds me of this blog post[0] where they intercept calls to the CUDA API from one host to execute them in a separate host, essentially giving GPUs to VMs that have none, and allowing one GPU to serve multiple instances. [0]: https://loopholelabs.io/blog/ollama-remote-gpu
Comment linking /blog/ollama-remote-gpu
on “A Dynamic and Distributed Virtual GPU Cloud Built on Idle Apple Silicon Devices”Submitted An eBPF loophole: Using XDP for egress traffic as a story · 243 points
HN discussionthe certificate at https://loopholelabs.io/ has been invalid for almost a month
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on “Show HN: Lynk – Securely expose local TCP and HTTP services to the web”Submitted Show HN: FRPC – A Faster, More Flexible RPC Framework as a story · 19 points
HN discussionLoophole Labs | Senior Systems Engineer | REMOTE (Americas & Europe) | $150k–195k USD + equity | Go, Zig, Rust, C, eBPF, CRIU, Kubernetes We make Architect: a Kubernetes runtime that hibernates idle pods in place and wakes them in 50ms with TCP connections intact. Five engineers. You'd be the 6th. If tracing an x86 instruction in the morning and hunting a control-plane race in the afternoon both sound fun, and you i…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)”Submitted Architect – Rethinking Spot Instances by Solving the Preemption Problem as a story · 9 points
HN discussionJust came here to say this is awesome to see more folks do novel stuff with XDP! After reading loophole labs post [0] a few months ago. I was hoping someone would cook on this for security research. [0] https://loopholelabs.io/blog/xdp-for-egress-traffic
Comment linking /blog/xdp-for-egress-traffic
on “Show HN: Spliff – Correlating XDP and TLS via eBPF (Building a Linux EDR)”Submitted Rethinking Spot Instances – How We Solved the Preemption Problem as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted FRPC: A Faster, More Flexible RPC Framework as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Took my coding. Whats left for me? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Math Changed: Rewriting Stale Open Source in the AI Era as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ollama Doesn't Know Its GPU Is on Another Machine as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rewriting stale OSS projects using LLM as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted fRPC: A Faster, More Flexible RPC Framework (2022) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using XDP for Egress Traffic as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rethinking Spot Instances – Solving Preemption as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Live Pod Migration on Spot Instances as a story · 1 points
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