diff --git a/hosts/hydra/hydra.nix b/hosts/hydra/hydra.nix
index 6c09b5cd..7713df48 100644
--- a/hosts/hydra/hydra.nix
+++ b/hosts/hydra/hydra.nix
@@ -169,10 +169,12 @@ in
       # strips features that don't make sense on qemu-user
       extraPlatformSystemFeatures =
         builtins.filter makesSenseForQemuUser config.nix.settings.system-features;
-    in ''
+    in
+    # both entries cannot have localhost alone because then hydra would merge them together but we want explictily two to not allow benchmarkts for binfmt emulated arches
+    ''
       cat << EOF > ~/machines
       localhost x86_64-linux - ${toString config.nix.settings.max-jobs} 10 ${lib.concatStringsSep "," config.nix.settings.system-features} -
-      localhost ${lib.concatStringsSep "," config.nix.settings.extra-platforms} - ${toString config.nix.settings.max-jobs} 10 ${lib.concatStringsSep "," extraPlatformSystemFeatures} -
+      hydra@localhost ${lib.concatStringsSep "," config.nix.settings.extra-platforms} - ${toString config.nix.settings.max-jobs} 10 ${lib.concatStringsSep "," extraPlatformSystemFeatures} -
       EOF
     '';