Sandboxes are 3 abstraction layers from physical hardware probes

HanchungLee · x · 2026-09-18

Hanchung Lee explains why sandboxed environments can't sense physical hardware: datacenters don't run on bare metal. VMs like EC2 run on hypervisors, k8s runs on the OS, and sandboxes run on VMs or k8s — three layers of abstraction away from any physical probe.

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