Curated Hacker NewsMar 16

FreeBSD risks losing relevance by ignoring AI tooling like Claude Code

https://discoverbsd.com/p/8a7660c31b

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FreeBSD risks losing relevance by ignoring AI tooling like Claude Code

Anthropic’s shift from an npm-based installer to a native installer for Claude Code has left FreeBSD users with a deprecation warning, signaling potential abandonment of the platform. The author argues...

Show threadBruce Simpson, Ph.D.Mar 16
@CuratedHackerNews Also this story is beginning to smell like #AIHype in disguise. Issues like us not having #eBPF support yet are surely more important. #FreeBSD doesn't "risk losing relevance" for the given reason. The original author is frankly talking b*llocks.
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@bms48 @CuratedHackerNews How important is the #eBPF support actually?
Show threadBruce Simpson, Ph.D.Mar 16
@mpts @CuratedHackerNews Cloudflare have some #eBPF based sexiness and Microsoft took the hook it uses too, so we are playing catchup: https://blog.cloudflare.com/its-crowded-in-here/
It's crowded in here!

We recently gave a presentation on Programming socket lookup with BPF at the Linux Plumbers Conference 2019 in Lisbon, Portugal.

The Cloudflare Blog
Show threadBruce Simpson, Ph.D.
@mpts @CuratedHackerNews Sure enough eBPF for FreeBSD is in the workplan published today and we have some commercial interest behind the scenes: https://people.freebsd.org/~bms/devsummit/bms-devsummit-2026.pdf
Mar 25 at 10:20pmWeb
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@bms48 @CuratedHackerNews Thanks for the link!
Show threadBruce Simpson, Ph.D.2d ago
@mpts @CuratedHackerNews It is even more important now that #AF_XDP2 is a thing.
Show thread0mp at FreeBSD20h ago
@bms48 @CuratedHackerNews Thanks for referencing my paper on the DTrace vs eBPF performance! It's really cool to see people finding this work useful!