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thebsbdox
Personal blog · thebsdbox.co.uksystemsprogramming
thebsbdox is a personal blog at thebsdbox.co.uk about systems and programming. Since 2016, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Designing and Building Ha Kubernetes on Bare-Metal”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post on running FreeBSD on macOS with xhyve, a port of bhyve. The commenter says it is useful for development and is fast, with few differences from a real install.
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.
Cheap conjorur of tricks
Most-linked posts?
- Designing and Building Ha Kubernetes on Bare-Metal2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-01-13
What Hacker News says?
As part of a competition before the last DockerCon I managed to get a container down to 69B Details: http://thebsdbox.co.uk/in-pursuit-of-a-tinier-binary-er/ Code: https://gist.github.com/thebsdbox/29e395299f89b52214b66269f5...
Comment linking /in-pursuit-of-a-tinier-binary-er/
on “A 1 KB Docker Container”Submitted Creating a Kubernetes cloud provider, doesn't required boiling the ocean as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI've been using this setup for years and glad to see some info here on HN about it. It's very fast but more importantly for development it really does a great job for porting to the real thing. I've never built anything in Xhyve that fails on a real install. Most of the differences I've seen are in vmnet versus like an e1000 device. I don't believe it does full duplex as per the xhyve docs (its a TODO under virtio_n…
Comment linking /a-peak-inside-docker-for-mac-hyperkit-wait-xhyve-no-bhyve/
on “Running FreeBSD on OS X using xhyve, a port of bhyve”Submitted How to parse protocols with eBPF (BGP is the example) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kuberenetes Controller Overview as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted I had a go at building a service mesh (with a bit of eBPF) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Parsing protocols with eBPF (specifically BGP) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Designing and Building Ha Kubernetes on Bare-Metal as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Load Balancing with Nftables as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Overview of Deploying Docker Datacenter as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Egress in Kubernetes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Application Traffic with eBPF as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Putting a VIP in Your Kubernetes Clusters as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Designing and Building Ha Kubernetes on Bare-Metal as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cluster-API Skeleton Project as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Docker for mac .. hyperkit/bhybe overview as a story · 1 points
HN discussion