Oxide and Friends – Podcastlijstje

Oxide hosts a weekly Discord show where we discuss a wide range of topics: computer history, startups, Oxide hardware bringup, and other topics du jour. These are the recordings in podcast form.
Join us live (usually Mondays at 5pm PT) https://discord.gg/gcQxNHAKCB
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Oxide's $445M Series D

18 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 22 min
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After raising $200M in February... we raised another $445M in July! Your favorite computer company is capitalized to the gills--enough to weather the supply chain upheaval even! Come for co-founders Steve and Bryan describing the raise; stay for tax, debt, and credit talk with Scott Orn. Lees meer

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, our special guests were Steve Tuck and Scott Orn.

Previously, on Oxide and Friends:

OxF s06e05 - Oxide's $200M Series C

OxF s05e24 - Oxide's $100M Series B

Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:

Oxide blog: Our $445M Series D

Hacker News: Our $445M Series D

Hacker News: Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D)

If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!
Working on Wicked Problems

16 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 26 min
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Wicked problems defy simple solutions. Even as we describe the problem, we may be presupposing particular solutions and narrowing scope. Our greatest, most persistent societal problems fit this model. Wicked problems may not be solvable, but progress can be made. Noah Harlan joins us to describe his technical entrepreneurship battling wicked problems. Lees meer

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, our special guest was Noah Harlan.

Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:

Rittel and Webber, Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning (1973)

Wikipedia: Cynefin framework

HOPICS

Kiip

Noah Harlan: "Why We Started Kiip"

Findhelp: "Transforming CBO Case Management with Kiip"

AlleyCorp

findhelp.org

MTS: "AI Doomsday Predictions Lack Real-World Reality" with Bryan Cantrill

Eric Ries, Incorruptible

If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!
For Want of a Resistor

16 september 2026 · 1 uur 24 min
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When the supply chain crunch catches up with you, sometimes a tiny resistor the size of a fleck of pepper is the difference between a world-class computer and... e-waste. Members of the Oxide operations and electrical engineering teams join Bryan and Adam to discuss how close we came to stopping production, for want of a resistor. Lees meer

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers included Robert "RFK" Keith, Eric Aasen, Scott Tagwerker, and Steve Tuck.

Previously, on Oxide and Friends:

OxF s06e12 - Rooting for the Home Team with Paul Freedman and Bryan Carmel

OxF s06e06 - When Nine Nines Isn't Enough

OxF s02e12 - More Tales from the Bringup Lab

Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:

Bryan's blog: The Contagion of Fear

PRs needed!

If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!
Emulating Oxide: How Faux Can You Go?

11 september 2026 · 1 uur 25 min
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We've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recording them all; here is the recording. Lees meer

How do you test configurations you haven't built yet? Steve, Andrew, and Rain join Bryan and Adam to talk about the transformative power of the Oxide emulation environment, VOXEL, and how it has accelerated development in many domains.

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers included Steve Karam, Andrew Stone, and Rain Paharia.

Previously, on Oxide and Friends:

OxF s03e06 - Rack-scale Networking (P4 and DDM with Ry Goodfellow)

OxF s01e26 - The Pragmatism of Hubris (with Cliff Biffle)

OxF s03e09 - Get You a State Machine for Great Good (Wicket with Andrew Stone)

OxF s01e25 - Tales from the Bringup Lab

OxF s01e18 - Dijkstra's Tweetstorm

OxF s03e31 - Hiring Processes with Gergely Orosz

Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:

voxel -- Virtual OXide Emulation Lab: emulated rack deployments on one Helios host (omicron on Falcon/propolis VMs, SoftNPU switches, FRR routers); optional real SP/RoT firmware via sp-emu. https://github.com/oxidecomputer/voxel

Falcon -- tool for standing up virtual network/rack topologies of propolis VMs on illumos for testing. https://github.com/oxidecomputer/falcon

Tofino -- Intel/Barefoot programmable switch ASIC (Tofino 2) in Sidecar; P4-programmable. Discontinued by Intel.

SoftNPU -- software P4 target emulating the switch dataplane, so the stack runs without Tofino hardware. https://github.com/oxidecomputer/softnpu

P4 -- DSL for describing packet-processing pipelines; how the Tofino/SoftNPU dataplane is programmed. https://p4.org

Gimlet -- Oxide's compute sled.

Sidecar -- Oxide's rack switch board, carrying the Tofino 2.

raclette -- reduced-size lab rack (a few sleds + switch) used for dev/test rather than a full 32-sled rack. (my read; unverified)

Hubris -- Rust microkernel/RTOS for the SP and RoT: statically-defined tasks, memory protection, synchronous IPC. ht…
AI Detection with Max Spero

3 september 2026 · 1 uur 2 min
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More and more, people are relying on AI to do their writing for them. Is this the new normal, or the intellectual equivalent of claiming take-out is your own home cooking? Max Spero, founder and CEO of Pangram, joined Bryan and Adam to discuss how they distinguish AI and human authorship. Lees meer

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, our special guest was Max Spero.

Previously, on Oxide and Friends:

OxF: Hiring Processes with Gergely Orosz

OxF: Shell Game with Evan Ratliff

OxF: Predictions 2026!!

Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:

Pangram

Brandon Sovran: "I Tried to Trick Pangram. I Lost."

Stanley Druckenmiller: "Let the Bond Market Speak"

Pangram 4 Technical Report

Goodfire: understand and debug your AI model

If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!
The Return to the Chamber of Mysteries

25 augustus 2026 · 1 uur 16 min
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Oxide returns to the chamber... of EMC compliance to earn FCC approval to sell our next generation rack. Did it go smoothly? If it had, would there be a podcast episode? Oxide teammates Robert, Dan, and Stu join Bryan and Adam to discuss the trials and triumph! Lees meer

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers included Robert "RFK" Keith, Dan Chirpich, and Stu Donnan.

Previously, on Oxide and Friends:

OxF s03e04 - Oxide and the Chamber of Mysteries

Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:

IEEE EMC+SIPI 2026: International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility, Signal & Power Integrity

PRs needed!

If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!
The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison

31 juli 2026 · 1 uur 24 min
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Simon Willison joined Bryan and Adam to discuss a wild couple of weeks in AI. First, we have a high-profile, AI-induced, AI-diagnosed security incident. Next we have the rise of frontier-class open-weights models. Who's for or against open weights? Do they make for a more or less secure future? Exciting times! Lees meer

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, our special guest was Simon Willison.

Previously, on Oxide and Friends:

OxF: Shell Game with Evan Ratliff

OxF: Discovering the XZ Backdoor with Andres Freund

OxF: Predictions 2025

OxF: Predictions 2026!!

OxF: Bookclub: How Life Works by Philip Ball

OxF: OpenAI's Boardroom Brawl

Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:

Gerald the turkey terrorizes Oakland's rose garden

ABC7: Gerald the turkey and the Morcom Rose Garden

APD cautions residents after aggressive wild turkey attacks elderly Alamedan

Hawking radiation

DHH's racist complaints

Grok's "MechaHitler" antisemitic spree

Simon on Grok aka "MechaHitler"

Hugging Face security incident, July 2026

OpenAI on the Hugging Face model evaluation security incident

Greg Brockman's political donations and the Leading the Future super PAC

OpenAI co-founder and wife donate $5.5M to save the home of bald eagles Jackie and Shadow

Firecracker microVM

Meltdown (security vulnerability)

Kernel page-table isolation

Jensen Huang on X

Electronic design automation

Golden Gate Claude

Tethics

Halloween documents

Zizians

Biohazard (book)

CRISPR

Oliver Sacks: criticism and falsifications

How Alice Hamilton waged a one-woman campaign to get the lead out of everything

American Poison by Daniel Stone

Lead–crime hypothesis

Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas encyclical

Rerum novarum

If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar. We'd love to have you join us, as…
The Past, Present, and Future of Digital Storytelling with Ramy Katrib

23 juli 2026 · 1 uur 5 min
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Ramy Katrib has been at the forefront of digital storytelling for over 25 years, with his post-production company, DigitalFilm Tree, earning a reputation as one of Hollywood's most technically adventurous post-production houses. He joined Bryan and Adam to explore the past, present, and future of digital storytelling. Lees meer

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, our special guest was Ramy Katrib.

If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!
The Oxide 3D Explorer

27 juni 2026 · 1 uur 14 min
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Recently, Oxide rolled out an eye-popping 3D rack explorer at explorer.oxide.computer. Oxide's designer extraordinaire, Ben Leonard, joined Bryan and Adam to describe the process of turning CAD drawings into an interactive site. Lees meer

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, our special guest was Oxide colleague, Ben Leonard.

Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:

The Explorer

its repo

Pierre Lamond oral history

PRs needed!

If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!
The Hardest Kind of Unsafe Rust

13 juni 2026 · 1 uur 28 min
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We love Rust for how much the compiler helps enforce safety. But sometimes it's up to us to uphold the complex--and often unclear--expectations of what constitutes safety on our own. Oxide colleague, Rain, joins Bryan and Adam to talk about the technical details of what it takes to impose safety on the hardest type of unsafe Rust. Lees meer

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by special guest star, Rain Paharia,

Previously on Oxide and Friends:

OxF s06e02 - Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

OxF s03e01 - Predictions 2023!

Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:

Oxide Blog: iddqd, or the hardest kind of unsafe Rust

PRs needed!

If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!