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Alex Haydock
Personal blog · blog.infected.systemssystemsprogramming
Alex Haydock's personal blog at blog.infected.systems covers systems and programming. Since 2024, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “No NAT November: My month without IPv4”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-17, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link posts on hosting a web server on a Nintendo Wii, the console's memory use, and building a hybrid IPv4/IPv6 network. Commenters cite them without judging the writing.
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?
- /status/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-04-21
- No NAT November: My month without IPv42 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-12-03
- Hugs of Death: How should we think about resilience in the IndieWeb?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-12-07
What Hacker News says?
> https://blog.infected.systems/posts/2025-04-21-this-blog-is-... Didnt think I'd ever be id'd so accurately on a blog about running a webserver on a WII.
Comment linking /posts/2025-04-21-this-blog-is-hosted-on-a-nintendo-wii/caddy.jpg
on “Blog hosted on a Nintendo Wii”Submitted Blog hosted on a Nintendo Wii as a story · 622 points
HN discussionOne of the coolest revelations to me, just looking at the status page [1] is that the Wii only had 88 MB of RAM - split between 24 MB built in to the SoC and 64 MB of GDDR3. Given that this is the case, ntpd using 15% of the system memory means it was using about 13 MB of RAM - hardly a huge chunk by today's standards but not small either. I wonder if reducing the number of time servers would improve this much? On m…
Comment linking /status/
on “Blog hosted on a Nintendo Wii”Submitted No NAT November: My month without IPv4 as a story · 223 points
HN discussionOP's been preparing for this moment: https://blog.infected.systems/posts/2024-12-04-hugs-of-death...
Comment linking /posts/2024-12-04-hugs-of-death/
on “Blog hosted on a Nintendo Wii”Submitted No Nat November: My Month Without IPv4 as a story · 6 points
HN discussionIt puts up a bit of a fight. https://blog.infected.systems/status/ for a plaintext status of what the Wii's doing load-wise (if it's still up, updated every ~15 minutes according to the blog). https://archive.is/6QvVA
Comment linking /status/
on “Blog hosted on a Nintendo Wii”Submitted Hugs of Death: How should we think about resilience in the IndieWeb? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI have had success running a hybrid IPv4/6 network by reading this guide for inspiration: https://blog.infected.systems/posts/2024-12-07-building-an-i... This allows me to have a mixture of both protocols and even some boxes that have both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. I still have some issues writing routing rules that does not fail for link-local addresses, but the network has now been fully operational for well over a…
Comment linking /posts/2024-12-07-building-an-ipv6-focused-openbsd-home-router
on “I tried living on IPv6 for a day”See also https://blog.infected.systems/posts/2025-04-21-this-blog-is-...
Comment linking /posts/2025-04-21-this-blog-is-hosted-on-a-nintendo-wii/?ref=404media.co
on “Web Server on a Nintendo Wii”
