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Two Six Technologies
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Two Six Technologies is the company blog at twosixlabs.com, writing about security and systems. Since 2017, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “2K m5.xl CI hrs with no termination failures and fast spin-up for $80 via Gitlab”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as a PDF paper arguing that I/O is faster than the CPU and proposing partitioned resources without OS abstractions. The comment quotes its points on NVMe SSDs and POSIX AIO.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- 2K m5.xl CI hrs with no termination failures and fast spin-up for $80 via Gitlab2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-08-20
What Hacker News says?
> So there's no standardization on how to talk to devices at the hardware level. Some CPUs have protection systems, an "I/O MMU", and there have been various channel-like interfaces, especially from Intel, but they have never caught on. From the paper: > NVMe SSDs perform I/O faster than the OS can accept new I/O requests and notify their completion. Furthermore, the current POSIX AIO implementations in Linux are ug…
Comment linking /running-thousands-of-kvm-guests-on-amazons-new-i3-metal-instances/
on “I/O Is Faster Than CPU – Let’s Partition Resources and Eliminate OS Abstractions [pdf]”Submitted BlueSteal: Popping GATT Safes as a story · 85 points
HN discussionSubmitted 2K m5.xl CI hrs with no termination failures and fast spin-up for $80 via Gitlab as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bidding for Builds as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Compressing multidimensional data by 80% in PostgreSQL as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bidding for Builds as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 6 Ways to Visualize Graphs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Approach for Vetting Research Prototypes at Scale as a story · 1 points
HN discussion