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somerandomidiot.com
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somerandomidiot.com is a personal blog at somerandomidiot.com about systems and programming. Since 2014, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 29 times, most often “Things Routers Do: Network Address Translation”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog's MirageOS and unikernel posts, covering Irmin, deploying unikernels to EC2 and a Mirage security vulnerability. Several links are cited as sources for points about the Mirage project.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Things Routers Do: Network Address Translation2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-04-10
- Fine, I'll download it for you2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-10-10
- NAT your own packets2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-10-10
- Fuzzing TCP Options2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-07-10
What Hacker News says?
As for the rest of MirageOS, Irmin is a "library" database, means that you have a bunch of components than you can re-use in different contexts. Two interesting contexts are: - the browser, where some components of Irmin are transpiled to JavaScript using js_of_ocaml ( http://ocsigen.org/js_of_ocaml/ ). Cuekeeper ( http://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2015/04/28/cuekeeper-gitting-t... ) is an interesting use-case for that.…
Comment linking /blog/2015/04/24/what-a-distributed-version-controlled-ARP-cache-gets-you/
on “Irmin: Git-like distributed DB”Submitted Attack Surface: Why I Unikernel, Part 1 as a story · 66 points
HN discussionThanks! If you're interested in deploying to EC2 then you should also look over Mindy Preston's posts [1]. There will also be more work done on improving cloud deployment over the summer [2]. I expect it won't be too long before we can have a heroku-like experience/system for easily building and deploying Unikernels to third-party clouds. [1] http://www.somerandomidiot.com/blog/categories/mirage/ [2] http://openmira…
Comment linking /blog/categories/mirage/
on “MirageOS: A Unikernel For The Xen Hypervisor”Submitted Fuzzing TCP Options as a story · 42 points
HN discussionDeploying to EC2 is an option [1]. In general, we want to make it easy for people to deploy to the public cloud and will release tools to aid this. [1] http://www.somerandomidiot.com/blog/2014/04/23/verb-your-own...
Comment linking /blog/2014/04/23/verb-your-own-noun/
on “YunoHost: Aiming to make hosting accessible”Submitted The Minnesota Goodbye as a story · 24 points
HN discussionAlso, the how: http://www.somerandomidiot.com/blog/2014/08/18/i-am-unikerne...
Comment linking /blog/2014/08/18/i-am-unikernel/
on “Attack Surface: Why I Unikernel, Part 1”Submitted What a distributed, version-controlled ARP cache gets you as a story · 22 points
HN discussionWell, yes and no. The surface area for memory-unsafe problems is much smaller, but it's still there. To @cheez's point, Mirage did contain a very dangerous vulnerability (see https://www.somerandomidiot.com/blog/2014/07/09/how-to-set-t... ). I'm optimistic that long term it's a great and obviously worthwhile tradeoff, even though the new stack (and all of https://nqsb.io really) is going to need a lot of real-world…
Comment linking /blog/2014/07/09/how-to-set-the-evil-bit/
on “IncludeOS: A minimal, resource efficient unikernel for cloud systems”Submitted Chamelon: MVP persistent block storage for MirageOS as a story · 21 points
HN discussionSubmitted Things Routers Do: Network Address Translation as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted Disco: Running Commodity Operating Systems on Scalable Multiprocessors as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fine, I'll download it for you as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fine, I'll Download It for You as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Set the Evil Bit as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Some Random Idiot as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ditch That AWS Build Host as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted NAT your own packets as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using property based testing on an Ocaml DHCP library as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Quick Guide to Quick Changes in MirageOS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Let's Play Network Address Translation: The Home Game as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I keep my blog in a unikernel as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted NAT your own packets as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Recurse Center retrospective as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A quick guide to making quick changes in MirageOS (2015) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Things Routers Do: Network Address Translation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Recurse Center Retrospective as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Doing nothing in Mirage as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Robot Finds Kitten Game in Elm as a story · 1 points
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