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apalrd's adventures
Personal blog · apalrd.net/postssystemshardware
apalrd's adventures is a personal blog at apalrd.net about systems and hardware. Since 2023, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “I spent a week without IPv4 (2023)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The only comment does not discuss this blog's writing or name any of its posts. It is about open-source laptop firmware (Coreboot/Libreboot) and OpenWRT routers, in a thread on former CIA tools.
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.
a blog
Most-linked posts?
- I spent a week without IPv4 (2023)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-03-06
- 2 Gamers, 1 CPU, NO Virtualization (2022)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-10-01
- Smart SFP – Mini Linux System on a Stick (Literally)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-11-18
What Hacker News says?
> What about your laptop hardware? Definitely it isn't open source. On some older Thinkpads you can install Coreboot/Libreboot. Or even buy them with that, if flashing the firmware seems to complicated/risky, or necessitating buying equipment one does not have at the ready. Same goes at least for some routers, with OpenWRT, or the likes, or depending on the used connection technology going 'full personal computer' w…
Comment linking /posts/2025/network_smartsfp/
on “Former CIA spy: agency's tools can takeover your phone, TV, and even your car”Submitted I spent a week without IPv4 (2023) as a story · 162 points
HN discussionSubmitted Full Disk Encryption on Fedora with TPM2 as a story · 34 points
HN discussionSubmitted Smart SFP – Mini Linux System on a Stick (Literally) as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using a Raspberry Pi as a Thin Client for Proxmox VMs (2022) as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted I spent a week without IPv4 to understand IPv6 transition mechanisms (2023) as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted A $9 Introduction to the RISC-V Future of Computing as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Setting Up a Home ISP with GPON as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Moving My Website from Static Hosting to Caddy (2023) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted I spent a week without IPv4 to understand IPv6 transition mechanisms as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Systemd-Networkd as a Router as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Starting My Content Delivery Network as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 2 Gamers, 1 CPU, NO Virtualization (2022) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Multicast TV Distribution on My Home Network as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gamers, 1 CPU, NO Virtualization (2022) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Persistent Ethernet Interfaces on Linux as a story · 1 points
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