We workbelow thesurface.
An independent technology collective exploring the systems, protocols, and infrastructure beneath the digital world.
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We operate in the margins.
rev 2026.10
About
Name
0x68 - independent technology collective
Synopsis
0x68[--systems][--infrastructure][--security][--research]
Description
We study the layers most people never look at: kernels, protocols, networks, and the infrastructure that quietly holds everything else up.
0x68 is a small, independent collective. We take systems apart to understand them, build tools when the existing ones fall short, and publish what we learn. There is no product here and nothing to sign up for. Just the work.
Principles
Systems over appearances.
How a thing works matters more than how it looks from the outside.
Reliability over hype.
Proven and understood beats new and fashionable. Boring is a feature.
First principles.
Read the spec, the source, and the packet capture before the summary.
Open knowledge.
What we learn gets written down and shared. Knowledge kept private decays.
See also
Where we look
Four areas hold most of our attention. They overlap constantly, and the interesting problems tend to live where they meet.
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Systems
Operating systems, low-level computing, and software architecture.
kernelsmemorycompilersABIs
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Infrastructure
Distributed systems, reliability, automation, and observability.
consensusnetworksfailuretooling
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Security
Defensive security, protocols, and system hardening.
threat modelscryptographyhardening
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Research
Experiments, tools, and unconventional technical ideas.
prototypesmeasurementodd questions