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New comment by ValidateKorea in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

ValidateKorea — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 01:26:07 +0000

Living in Korea where Samsung and SK Hynix are headquartered, the DRAM pricing situation is interesting from the supply side too. Both companies have been aggressively shifting capacity toward HBM for AI/datacenter use because the margins are 3-5x higher than commodity DDR5. The hobbyist SBC market is essentially collateral damage of the AI boom — manufacturers are rationally choosing to serve the more profitable customer.

Unfortunately I don't see this reversing until HBM demand plateaus or new fabs come online, which is 2-3 years out at minimum.

New comment by ValidateKorea in "EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

ValidateKorea — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 01:25:35 +0000

The plugin security model in WordPress has been the elephant in the room for years. Any plugin can execute arbitrary PHP — there's no sandboxing, no permission system, nothing. It's wild that we accepted this for so long.

The Cloudflare Workers approach (V8 isolates) is fundamentally better because it enforces boundaries at the runtime level rather than relying on developer goodwill. Curious to see how they handle the migration path for existing WP sites though — that's where projects like this usually die.