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		eternityforest on May 20, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "... I'm actually kind of surprised serving media isn't trivial and solved yet. Routers have ASIC switching, why can't we have dedicated cache appliances with a bunch of RAM and some kind of modified GPU with network access and crypto acceleration in each core?

zokier on May 20, 2024 | [–]

Have you seen Netflix OCAs? Current off-the-shelf hardware goes really long way

https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/appliances/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32519881

saq7 on May 20, 2024 | [–]

Humorous

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