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Phillip Tennen
Personal blog · axleos.comsystemshardwareprogramming
Phillip Tennen's personal blog at axleos.com covers systems, hardware and programming. Since 2023, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “Show HN: Building a GPS receiver”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Phillip Tennen's low-level projects, such as an IRC client that runs from UEFI and a multi-part iPhone 4 exploit write-up. Commenters single out the write-ups and visual design.
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.
axle OS
Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: Building a GPS receiver2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-04-15
- An IRC client in your motherboard2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-04-05
- Simulating Slices of iOS Apps2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-01-06
- Exploiting the iPhone 4, Part 1: Gaining Entry2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-10-02
- Writing about writing about programming2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-06-26
What Hacker News says?
Nice write-up in the original article[1]. I love the visualizations and the style of the website. [1] https://axleos.com/an-irc-client-in-your-motherboard/
Comment linking /an-irc-client-in-your-motherboard/
on “An IRC client that runs on your motherboard's UEFI is born”Submitted Show HN: Building a GPS receiver as a story · 552 points
HN discussionHi HN, author here! The GameBoy emulator written up in this post runs on axle, which is a message-passing microkernel-based OS I’ve been working on for a very long time. dang suggested that I put together a Show HN for axle, which I’d love to do once I have a bit more time to get things into a working-out-of-the-box state! axle is a really fun project for me, and serves as the testing grounds for all kinds of techni…
Comment linking /adding-vmnet-support-to-qemu/
on “I wrote a GameBoy emulator for my hobby OS”Submitted An IRC client in your motherboard as a story · 343 points
HN discussionMight be of interest to folks in this thread: I wrote about the GameBoy boot ROM here: https://axleos.com/writing-axles-gameboy-emulator/
Comment linking /writing-axles-gameboy-emulator/
on “Extracting the GameBoy ROM from photographs of the die”Submitted Writing a TrueType font renderer as a story · 317 points
HN discussionThanks for this, beyond anything I'll likely ever do myself but a fun read :) FYI the link to part 3 at the bottom of part 2 [1] seems to be unreachable via mouse. On desktop the element img.terminal_in_demo_with_window is overlapping and blocking the link for me [1] https://axleos.com/exploiting-the-iphone-4-part-2-bypassing-...
Comment linking /exploiting-the-iphone-4-part-2-bypassing-the-boot-chain/
on “Exploiting the iPhone 4”Submitted Simulating Slices of iOS Apps as a story · 45 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing about writing about programming as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a software-defined GPS receiver as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Exploiting the iPhone 4, Part 1: Gaining Entry as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Simulating Slices of iOS Apps as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making a newsletter backend as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Axle’s Red Rectangle of Doom as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I wrote a GameBoy emulator for my hobby OS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I wrote a GameBoy emulator for a hobby OS in Rust as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing axle's GameBoy emulator as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Footsteps of pi as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Exploiting the iPhone 4 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making a Newsletter Back End as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing about writing about programming as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Screwing up my page tables as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rearranging the Computer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Axle OS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Running Axle on Multiple CPUs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Running axle on multiple CPUs as a story · 1 points
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