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Kernel Panic

Personal blog · kernelpanic.lifesystemshardware

Kernel Panic is a personal blog at kernelpanic.life about systems and hardware. Since 2021, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Rolling Back OpenBSD PF Changes”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-04-20, and you can follow it by feed.

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10mentions?
8HN people?
2021–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2021

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for its OpenBSD hardware experiments, including router benchmarks and running OpenBSD on an M1 MacBook Air. The comments only cite or link these posts.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Rolling Back OpenBSD PF Changes
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-06-29
  2. OpenBSD 6.9 Router Benchmarks
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-05-22

What Hacker News says?

  1. bpye · 2024-10-06
    Maybe more fun than practical, given the performance you'll see [1], but OpenBSD has a mips/octeon port which runs on some of Ubiquiti's hw [0]. [0] - https://www.openbsd.org/octeon.html [1] - https://kernelpanic.life/hardware/openbsd-router-benchmarks....

    Comment linking /hardware/openbsd-router-benchmarks.html

    on “Router Security”
  2. zdw · 2021-05-22

    Submitted OpenBSD 6.9 Router Benchmarks as a story · 21 points

    HN discussion
  3. shrubble · 2024-03-15
    Runs OpenBSD also, it seems! https://www.kernelpanic.life/hardware/openbsd-m1-macbook-air... Should be very comfortable with 8GB - my FreeBSD x64 desktop rarely uses more than 4GB during operation of Emacs, heavy Chrome usage, syncthing, etc.

    Comment linking /hardware/openbsd-m1-macbook-air.html

    on “Walmart begins selling the Mac for the first time: M1 MacBook Air for $699”
  4. bradley_taunt · 2025-07-07

    Submitted OpenBSD on the 2020 M1 MacBook Air (2022) as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  5. todsacerdoti · 2021-10-25

    Submitted OpenBSD on the HiFive Unmatched as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  6. susam · 2021-10-26

    Submitted A Week with an AlphaStation: The Old Computer Challenge as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  7. todsacerdoti · 2021-08-31

    Submitted High Availability with OpenBGPD on OpenBSD 6.9 as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. hucste · 2021-10-19

    Submitted OpenBSD Compile Time Comparison as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. todsacerdoti · 2021-06-29

    Submitted Rolling Back OpenBSD PF Changes as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. protomyth · 2021-07-03

    Submitted Rolling Back OpenBSD PF Changes as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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