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Adam Ierymenko
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Adam Ierymenko's personal blog at adamierymenko.com covers programming, ai and startups. Since 2014, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 42 times, most often “Privileged Ports Are Expensive (2016)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Adam Ierymenko's posts on privileged ports and Unix multi-tenancy, which argue that these facilities atrophied after containerization. Also cited on decentralized versus centralized consensus.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Privileged Ports Are Expensive (2016)4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2016-01-07
- Privileged Ports Cause Climate Change4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-09-26
- Decentralization: I Want to Believe (2014)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-09-10
- Decentralization: I Want to Believe2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2014-08-01
- The Web Is Eating the Desktop (2017)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-04-02
What Hacker News says?
My seldom-updated personal site is http://adamierymenko.com/ It's actually worse than doubling. The nature of distributed systems means that participating in resources consumed normally triples resource consumption at least . I'm not aware of any approach to decentralization of services like Facebook, Twitter, etc. that would merely double it. Your typical desktop or laptop has a lot of resources to spare. Your typi…
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on “Time to rebuild the web?”Submitted Privileged Ports Are Expensive (2016) as a story · 265 points
HN discussionAdd the two cents of http://adamierymenko.com/ports.html "Since we chose the path of virtualization and containerization we've allowed the multi-tenancy facilities in Unix to atrophy and it would take a little bit of work to bring them back into form."
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on “Kubernetes is our generation's Multics”Submitted Docker: Not Even a Linker as a story · 133 points
HN discussionhttp://adamierymenko.com/web_eating_desktop.html
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on “The End of Windows”Submitted Decentralization: I Want to Believe as a story · 133 points
HN discussionDo you mean least privilege/ minimal centralization? I wrote this rant-ish post on the concept a while back. http://adamierymenko.com/decentralization.html It describes a route whereby I got to the concept, but I doubt I'm the first one there. Everything gets reinvented over and over again in this field.
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on “How Tailscale Works”Submitted The Web Is Eating the Desktop (2017) as a story · 72 points
HN discussionLike I said: Docker wants to be a linker and a binary format: http://adamierymenko.com/docker-not-even-a-linker/ If everything (mysql, pgsql, etc.) were a library you could achieve much of what it does with -static and privilege dropping on launch.
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on “Subuser turns Docker containers into normal Linux programs, limiting privileges”Submitted The Phases of Titan as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSure, predictions are hard. We often get them wrong on the upside (over-hype) and the downside. As a result, "AI isn't going to happen" really is not a good argument against discussing the potential risks of it. (... and I say that as someone who is an "AI is around the corner" skeptic.) Yet that doesn't change the basic risk calculus. In his previous post, Sam advocated imposing draconian licensing and observation…
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on “Technology predictions”Submitted Privileged Ports Cause Climate Change as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> On a philosophical note, I second vortico's question of why common Linux distros require root access to be at all usable. In particular, how did it come to not being able to install a package without sudo? Previously: http://adamierymenko.com/privileged-ports-are-causing-climat... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14712576 TLDR; "You probably just realized that without the privileged ports restriction everythin…
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on “JuNest: Arch Linux-based distro that runs on any Linux OS, without root access”Submitted Decentralization: I Want to Believe (2014) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWe wanted to build something useful in mainstream, casual, and commercial applications, not just for geeks. For that reason we took on the following non-negotiable design requirements: - An endpoint can join the network in <~10s. No bootstrapping time. - Any endpoint can reach any other endpoint in the world in <~10s (or less). - No configuration at all is required. It "just works." Any knob that must be tweaked or…
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on “Technologies of the Decentralized Web Summit”Submitted Docker: Not Even a Linker as a story · 3 points
HN discussionEverything needs to be namespaced and there needs to be a scalable and robust model for sharing resources. Containers do the first part but not the second. Classical OSes do the second part but not the first. Here's what I would do if I were working on this problem: (1) Shared libraries can be linked by name and version constraints or by specific cryptographic hash of the library. The former uses some kind of name r…
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on “Containers Are Not the Future”Submitted The Boat Linux Missed (and How It Can Swim) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI fundamentally disagree -- there is a difference between incremental and revolutionary advances. They are qualitatively different types of steps. http://adamierymenko.com/c/ Nevertheless this Bloomberg article makes a good concrete counterpoint to Thiel and Stephenson. Part of the problem is that these things are horribly difficult to quantify. How do you measure "fundamental advance?" I'm not aware of any good met…
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on “Peter Thiel Is Wrong About the Future”Submitted Privileged Ports Cause Climate Change (2016) as a story · 2 points
HN discussion(ZeroTier founder here.) Turning off compression: noted. We also might permit a no-encryption mode for trusted backplane networks for data center SDN use in the future. There's no federation for the root servers yet . We have numerous ideas on how to implement this but it's not a current priority. It has to be done with care to avoid sacrificing speed, security, or ability to upgrade. You can read some of the reason…
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on “ZeroTier - Simple Software Defined Networking”Submitted Decentralization: I Want to Believe as a story · 2 points
HN discussionLook at the netconf-master/ subfolder -- you can make private networks without using the web UI. But it's hard right now. It'll probably be made easier in the future. As far as pure decentralization goes: that's very hard, much harder than NAT-t and cryptography. I've prioritized zero-configuration instant-on and performance because that's what 95% of users want. Here's a personal post I wrote on the difficulty: htt…
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on “ZeroTier: Network Virtualization Everywhere”Submitted Privileged Ports Cause Climate Change as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI think this is a response to this: http://adamierymenko.com/privileged-ports-are-causing-climat... See discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14712576
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on “Bind broker”Submitted On the Imminence and Danger of AI as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI post because it's true and interesting, but the real trend goes back a lot further: to ~1970. http://thecurrentmoment.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/producti... Among other things, I think this exonerates Silicon Valley. Information tech did not cause this. I've smelled an agenda to frame SV and its larger economic and cultural orbit for middle class woes for several years, mostly emanating from curmudgeonly journali…
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on “The American Middle Class Hasn't Gotten a Raise in 15 Years”Submitted Did YC Just Start a Campaign to License and Regulate CS Research? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI don't agree that Stellar is an "obviously inferior" technology. Stellar just makes different tradeoffs. I particularly enjoy this quote from http://adamierymenko.com/decentralization-i-want-to-believe/ : A centralized alternative to Bitcoin would be a simple SQL database with a schema representing standard double-entry accounting and some meta-data fields. The entire transaction volume of the Bitcoin network could…
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on “Safety, liveness and fault tolerance—the consensus choices”Submitted Space Mountaineering: The Lean Startup vs. Zero to One as a story · 2 points
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