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l1x/dev
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l1x/dev is a personal blog at dev.l1x.be about programming, systems and data. Since 2020, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Getting Started with Firecracker on Raspberry Pi”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-02-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link this blog's posts on Firecracker microVMs, running LLaMA on an Apple M1 Mac, and using Python 3.11. The comments cite them as references and do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Thoughts on DevOps, Rust, Unix, data engineering and high performance computing topics by Istvan.
Most-linked posts?
- Getting Started with Firecracker on Raspberry Pi2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-11-22
- Diving into Firecracker with Alpine2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-12-14
- Compressing Data with Parquet2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-03-09
What Hacker News says?
I usually use them as local dev env. I deploy everything to my local cluster before I try to run it on a real infra. It is pretty good. I can also virtualize some of the workload using Firecracker. https://dev.l1x.be/posts/2020/11/22/getting-started-with-fir...
Comment linking /posts/2020/11/22/getting-started-with-firecracker-on-raspberry-pi/
on “M.2 on a Raspberry Pi – The Tofu CM4 Carrier Board”Submitted Getting Started with Firecracker on Raspberry Pi as a story · 85 points
HN discussionI am assuming your asking about how to boot up the image. You can poke around here: https://dev.l1x.be/posts/2020/12/13/diving-into-firecracker-... If you are asking for the NetBSD image I am not sure.
Comment linking /posts/2020/12/13/diving-into-firecracker-with-alpine/
on “A NetBSD/amd64 guest can now boot in 18ms”Submitted Using LLaMA with M1 Mac and Python 3.11 as a story · 44 points
HN discussionIt is possible[1]. You are better off this way than the AWS "native" way. 1. https://dev.l1x.be/posts/2023/02/28/using-python-3.11-with-a...
Comment linking /posts/2023/02/28/using-python-3.11-with-aws-lambda/
on “Prime Video Abandons Serverless Distributed Stack for Monolith, saves 90%”Submitted Using Rust for ETL as a story · 2 points
HN discussionLLaMa [1] works on Apple Mx processors due to unified memory. The 7B model works on a 8GB Apple MacBook Pro M1, ~40 seconds/token. [1] https://dev.l1x.be/posts/2023/03/12/using-llama-with-m1-mac
Comment linking /posts/2023/03/12/using-llama-with-m1-mac
on “How 'Open' Is OpenAI, Really?”Submitted Using LDAP in Docker with Caching as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNot really. Firecracker fits on the host kernel - guest kernel axis while Mirage is a unikernel that is orthogonal to the concept of microvm concept. https://dev.l1x.be/posts/2020/11/22/getting-started-with-fir...
Comment linking /posts/2020/11/22/getting-started-with-firecracker-on-raspberry-pi/
on “Mirage – A programming framework for building type-safe, modular systems”Submitted Compressing Data with Parquet as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Diving into Firecracker with Alpine as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Diving into Firecracker with Alpine as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting Started with Firecracker on Raspberry Pi as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Running Bun as AWS Lambda Function as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Python 3.11 with AWS Lambda as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Ninja for Docker Workflows as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Compressing Data with Parquet as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Compressing AWS S3 logs after getting HackerNewsed as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Running Asp.net Web Application with Falco on AWS Lambda as a story · 1 points
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