Top all-time · #12469
Akash Rajpurohit
Personal blog · akashrajpurohit.com/blog · on HN as ghostfoxgodprogrammingwebsystems
Akash Rajpurohit's personal blog at akashrajpurohit.com covers programming, web and systems. Since 2022, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 30 times, most often “Build Your Own Docker with Linux Namespaces, Cgroups, and Chroot”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this tutorial on building your own Docker, which a commenter points to as a starting point for implementing Docker on Plan9 and comparing it with Linux namespaces.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Hi!, I'm Akash Rajpurohit, a self taught software developer based in India. I specialize in developing web applications and cross platform mobile applications using modern technologies.
Most-linked posts?
- Build Your Own Docker with Linux Namespaces, Cgroups, and Chroot2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-06-27
What Hacker News says?
This is awesome, I am myself jotting down the list of open source alternatives I have tried and planning to try. Some of these lists are available on my blog site https://akashrajpurohit.com/blog/open-source-alternatives-yo... https://akashrajpurohit.com/blog/open-source-alternatives-yo... Planning to write more parts as and when I try more solutions :)
Comment linking /blog/open-source-alternatives-you-must-try-part-2/
on “Open Source Alternative To”Submitted Ansible – Infrastructure as Code for building up my Homelab as a story · 17 points
HN discussionThanks and agreed, this one is a bit short because I skipped writing about the namespaces, cgroups and chroot in details and kept it outside into separate articles, Sadly I've seen in past that when I post relatively long articles then those don't do good because of short attention span (and I don't blame anyone for this, this is just the fact that I noticed). Hence, for such large topics I tend to break it down int…
Comment linking /blog/how-to-create-a-restricted-environment-with-the-linux-chroot-command/
on “Build Your Own Docker with Linux Namespaces, Cgroups, and Chroot”Submitted Build Your Own Docker with Linux Namespaces, Cgroups, and Chroot as a story · 14 points
HN discussionTry to implement Docker in Plan9 using this tutorial: https://akashrajpurohit.com/blog/build-your-own-docker-with-... Wonder how far will you fare, and how long will it take. Or try PlanD: https://github.com/rvs/planD
Comment linking /blog/build-your-own-docker-with-linux-namespaces-cgroups-and-chroot-handson-guide/
on “Linux Namespaces Are a Poor Man's Plan 9 Namespaces”Submitted What is GPG and why you should start using it as a story · 9 points
HN discussionI'm also planning to jot down the approach and strategy into short form blogs as and when I keep solving them and publish it on my blogging site [1]. This will help me keep coming back to it and revise it more easily. [1]: https://akashrajpurohit.com/
Comment linking /
on “Overthewire.org”Submitted Linux Commands for Efficient Server Management as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWriting at https://akashrajpurohit.com/blogs/
Comment linking /blogs/
on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Mastering Dotfiles Management with GNU Stow as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Built a Watchman for My Servers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Redlib – Self-hosted Reddit browsing without the bloat as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to setup Cloudflare proxy for your website hosted on Vercel or Netlify as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unleash the Power of Self-Hosted Services with Cloudflare Tunnels as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Teaching High Valyrian to my server monitoring agent as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Your Next Back End Could Just Be a Google Sheet as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Caching Strat:Understand Write-Through, Write-Behind, Read-Through and Read-Miss as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted FZF: The Ultimate Linux Productivity Tool as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mastering App Security: 7 Crucial Risks Every Developer Must Mitigate as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Exploding your system: The deadly Fork Bomb in Linux as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Migrating from Next.js to Astro as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building and Publishing TypeScript NPM Packages as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Snowflake ID: Generating Unique IDs for Distributed Systems as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Array and Object Manipulation in JavaScript: Advanced Techniques as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Set up Cloudflare proxy for your website hosted on Vercel or Netlify as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dynamic DNS Made Easy with Cloudflare API as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Revamp Your Old Android Phone into a Mini Linux Server as a story · 1 points
HN discussion