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Adventurist.me: Letters into the void
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Adventurist.me: Letters into the void is a personal blog at adventurist.me about systems. Since 2020, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Adventurist.me: Simple ipfw NAT for bhyve virtual machines and vnet jails”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-12-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for FreeBSD benchmark posts and a writeup on running FreeBSD on a refurbished Dell Latitude 7280 laptop. Comments mostly point to its benchmark posts as sources.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Adventurist.me: Simple ipfw NAT for bhyve virtual machines and vnet jails2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-01
What Hacker News says?
Here are some additional benchmarks from various sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGo4iyNwo_Y https://redbyte.eu/en/blog/postgresql-benchmark-freebsd-cent... https://adventurist.me/posts/00307 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV61mVYsFM8 Network stack: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=netperf-... Linux epoll vs FreeBSD kqueue: https://long-zhou.github.io/2012/12/21/epoll-vs-kqueue.html Free…
Comment linking /posts/00307
on “FreeBSD optimizations used by Netflix to serve video at 800Gb/s [pdf]”Submitted Adventurist.me: Simple ipfw NAT for bhyve virtual machines and vnet jails as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHere are some benchmarks from various sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGo4iyNwo_Y https://redbyte.eu/en/blog/postgresql-benchmark-freebsd-cent... https://adventurist.me/posts/00307 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV61mVYsFM8 Network stack: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=netperf-... Linux epoll vs FreeBSD kqueue: https://long-zhou.github.io/2012/12/21/epoll-vs-kqueue.html FreeBSD: A Fast…
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on “FreeBSD optimizations used by Netflix to serve video at 800Gb/s [pdf]”Submitted Simple ipfw NAT for bhyve virtual machines and vnet jails on FreeBSD as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHere are some additional benchmarks from various sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGo4iyNwo_Y https://redbyte.eu/en/blog/postgresql-benchmark-freebsd-cent... https://adventurist.me/posts/00307 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV61mVYsFM8 Network stack: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=netperf-... Linux epoll vs FreeBSD kqueue: https://long-zhou.github.io/2012/12/21/epoll-vs-kqueue.html Free…
Comment linking /posts/00307
on “FreeBSD optimizations used by Netflix to serve video at 800Gb/s [pdf]”Submitted FreeBSD on NanoPi Neolts as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt has been repeatedly shown that the Phoronix benchmarks have little value: 1. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/529752/why-applicat... 2. https://marc.info/?l=freebsd-current&m=163924197831602&w=1 You have to take the Phoronix benchmarks with a very large grain of salt. Here are some additional benchmarks from various sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGo4iyNwo_Y https://redbyte.eu/en/blog/postgresql…
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on “FreeBSD optimizations used by Netflix to serve video at 800Gb/s [pdf]”Submitted Command Line Bug Hunting in FreeBSD as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI can't speak to it driving a monitor over USB-C as I don't use one, but I'm currently running 15.0-RELEASE on a refurbished Dell Latitude 7280 that has worked flawlessly out of the box so far. Somebody else did a nice writeup [0] on their experience with FBSD on the same laptop. [0] https://adventurist.me/posts/00352
Comment linking /posts/00352
on “The FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support and Usability Project”
