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Stephen Marz

Personal blog · blog.stephenmarz.com · on HN as pavehawk2007systemsprogramminghardware

Stephen Marz's personal blog at blog.stephenmarz.com covers systems, programming and hardware. Since 2019, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 33 times, most often “Assembly's Perspective of C”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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33mentions?
5HN people?
2019–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 16 in 2020

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked only as a pointer to older posts from the author's blog, which the thread context ties to building a RISC-V operating system in Rust. No comment judges the writing.

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.

The author on HN?

pavehawk2007 · 651 karma · member since 2019

Proprietor of the Adventures of OS blog: https://blog.stephenmarz.com

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Assembly's Perspective of C
    3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-05-20
  2. Writing Pong in Rust for My OS Written in Rust
    2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-03-05
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    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-05-27
  4. RISC-V OS using Rust: Graphics
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-31
  5. Getting Graphical Output from Our Custom RISC-V Operating System in Rust
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-11-11

What Hacker News says?

  1. Cover topics around software development, math, programming languages, and academia: http://stuffwithstuff.com/ https://ericlippert.com/ http://thume.ca/archive.html https://medium.com/@mdwdotla https://faculty.washington.edu/ajko/posts https://computinged.wordpress.com/ https://blog.acolyer.org/ https://blog.sigplan.org/blog/ https://blog.paranoidcoding.com/ https://blog.regehr.org/ https://eli.thegreenplace.net/ h…

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    on “Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?”
  2. Submitted Assembly's Perspective of C as a story · 164 points

    HN discussion
  3. Some more clicking got me to updates from mid 2022: https://blog.stephenmarz.com/

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    on “Making a RISC-V Operating System Using Rust”
  4. Submitted Writing Pong in Rust for My OS Written in Rust as a story · 134 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted RISC-V is getting MSIs as a story · 129 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted RISC-V OS using Rust: Graphics as a story · 99 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Five Tips to Writing RISC-V Assembly as a story · 73 points

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  8. Submitted Files by Name (Minix 3 Filesystem) as a story · 59 points

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  9. Submitted Dynamic Linking as a story · 55 points

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  10. Submitted Hardware Floating Point as a story · 53 points

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  11. Submitted Hooking Up Our Custom OS to a Standard Library as a story · 47 points

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  12. Submitted Back That ‘S’ Up: Moving to RISC-V’s Supervisor Mode as a story · 33 points

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  13. Submitted The RISC-V APLIC’s New Features as a story · 32 points

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  14. Submitted Getting Graphical Output from Our Custom RISC-V Operating System in Rust as a story · 30 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Five Tips to Writing RISC-V Assembly as a story · 14 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Assembly’s Perspective as a story · 8 points

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  17. Submitted Assembly's Perspective as a story · 4 points

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  18. Submitted RISC-V OS Using Rust: Taking Control of RISC-V as a story · 4 points

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  19. Submitted Assembly's Perspective of C (2020) as a story · 3 points

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  20. Submitted Writing Pong in Rust for My OS Written in Rust as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Getting Graphical Output from Our Custom RISC-V Operating System in Rust as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Assembly’s Perspective as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Writing Pong in Rust for My OS Written in Rust as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted You are wrong about the RISC-V SFENCE.VMA instruction as a story · 2 points

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  25. Submitted You are wrong about the RISC-V SFENCE.VMA instruction as a story · 2 points

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  26. Submitted Hooking Up Our Custom OS to a Standard Library as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted RISC-V OS Using Rust: Input Devices as a story · 2 points

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  28. Submitted RISC-V OS using Rust: Graphics as a story · 2 points

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  29. Submitted Dynamic Linking as a story · 2 points

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  30. Submitted Dynamic Linking as a story · 1 points

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