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ScaleNinja
Company blog · scaleninja.com/blogsystemsprogramming
ScaleNinja is the company blog at scaleninja.com, writing about systems and programming. Since 2026, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Show HN: MacVisor Runs VMs with VLANs and Firewall on Apple Silicon”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in comments about DriveSync, a Git-styled Google Drive sync CLI, and MacVisor, a tool for FreeBSD and FreeBSD-based appliances on Apple Silicon Macs. The comments describe these products, not the writing.
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.
ScaleNinja builds virtualization and infrastructure software for macOS, cloud, and beyond.
Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: MacVisor Runs VMs with VLANs and Firewall on Apple Silicon3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-07-15
What Hacker News says?
That was a great suggestion - thank you! Also a few folks also asked for a UI for macOS, so I also got a menubar (UI) app published on the Mac App Store which too uses the bundled open source dsync CLI. Updated: https://scaleninja.com/drivesync/ App Store link: https://apps.apple.com/app/drivesync-for-google-drive/id6813...
Comment linking /drivesync/
on “Show HN: DriveSync – fast Git-styled Google Drive sync CLI”Submitted Show HN: DeltaSnap – APFS Snapshot Manager and Version Control for macOS (GA) as a story · 6 points
HN discussionCool stuff, at work we develop MacVisor and it too supports FreeBSD and FreeBSD-based appliances on Apple Silicon Macs https://scaleninja.com/macvisor/ I was also able to build a custom arm64 router distro based on pfSense and FreeBSD that seems to be functional on Apple Silicon Macs and MacVisor https://github.com/yadvlabs/armsense/releases
Comment linking /macvisor/
on “FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT/aarch64 guest boots on Apple Virtualization.framework”Submitted Show HN: MacVisor Runs VMs with VLANs and Firewall on Apple Silicon as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI'm working for the "Mac as Infrastructure" category at ScaleNinja. Currently building: DeltaSnap - a version-control & undo layer for AI era for macOS powered by APFS snapshots. (Snapshots have existed for years, so part of me wonders why nobody else built something like this as a standalone product; fwiw this is now among handful apps in the world which Apple/APFS team has blessed to use their private APFS snapsho…
Comment linking /macvisor/
on “Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)”Submitted Show HN: Noject – menubar app to stop drive ejections on macOS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why we built an APFS filesystem version control tool for Mac? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why create a separate APFS volume for your data? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: DeltaSnap – Undo for Mac, built on APFS snapshot entitlement from Apple as a story · 1 points
HN discussion