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Personal blog · imil.net/blogsystemsprogramming

iMil.net is a personal blog at imil.net about systems and programming. Since 2017, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Fakecracker: NetBSD as a Function Based MicroVM”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-13, and you can follow it by feed.

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12mentions?
8HN people?
2017–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2020

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked for posts on optimising NetBSD/amd64 kernel boot time, including a performance branch that boots the kernel in under 15ms under QEMU's microvm machine type.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Fakecracker: NetBSD as a Function Based MicroVM
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-06-18
  2. NetBSD as a Kubernetes Pod
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-10-24

What Hacker News says?

  1. jaypatelani · 2024-01-23
    The author has been working on optimizing the NetBSD/amd64 virtual machine kernel boot time. With performance enhancements, the kernel can now boot in less than 15ms on a not-so-modern i5-7600K using QEMU 6.2 with the microvm machine type. The performance branch, available on GitHub, introduces features like Generic PVH boot, a new PV bus for hypervisors without PCI, MMIO-backed devices, performance fixes, pvclock u…

    Comment linking /NetBSD/disk.img

    on “Optimizing NetBSD/Amd64 Kernel Boot Time: A Performance Breakthrough”
  2. yankcrime · 2020-06-18

    Submitted Fakecracker: NetBSD as a Function Based MicroVM as a story · 166 points

    HN discussion
  3. rodrigo975 · 2019-07-03

    Submitted Replacing a silently failing disk in a ZFS pool as a story · 125 points

    HN discussion
  4. iMil · 2020-06-18

    Submitted Fakecracker: NetBSD as a Function Based MicroVM as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  5. jayp1418 · 2023-10-24

    Submitted NetBSD as a Kubernetes Pod as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. iMil · 2026-06-13

    Submitted RTX 5080 and RTX 3090 Setup: 80 Tok/s on Qwen 3.6 27B Q8 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. jhchabran · 2023-11-30

    Submitted NetBSD as a K8s Pod as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. vermaden · 2023-10-25

    Submitted Migrating ZFS Pool to Smaller Disk as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. rodrigo975 · 2022-03-14

    Submitted An Innocent Mount Issue – iMil.net as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. jayp1418 · 2020-08-09

    Submitted Make Postfix Trigger Blacklistd on Failed Authentication on NetBSD as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. yannikyeo · 2018-12-10

    Submitted Golang interfaces, a pragmatic explanation for the programmer as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. iMil · 2017-05-20

    Submitted Launching the AWS Management Console from the CLI as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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