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Chip Overclock®
Personal blog · coverclock.blogspot.comsystemshardwareprogramming
Chip Overclock® is a personal blog at coverclock.blogspot.com about systems, hardware and programming. Since 2014, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “My Stratum-0 Atomic Clock”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-24, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts on embedded and real-time systems: a GCRA traffic-shaping implementation in Rust and Go, timekeeping with DIY atomic clocks and radio telescopes, and notes on lab notebooks and career advice.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
About the business and technology of very large and very small systems.
Most-linked posts?
- My Stratum-0 Atomic Clock3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-02-09
What Hacker News says?
I'm an embedded/real-time/systems software developer. The realms I work in tend to be either the very small or the very large. When I wanted to learn Rust and Go, I coded the same application in both of them, one that I had previously coded in Java, C++, and C: I implemented the Generic Cell Rate Algorithm using a virtual scheduler. The GCRA is a traffic shaping algorithm that takes as parameters a desired peak rate…
Comment linking /2018/11/vamoose-rustler.html
on “Ask HN: What do you code when learning a new language/framework?”Submitted What you don't know can hurt you as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAre there any crystal or photonic oscillators that are up to the task for this time keeping? Or is RF interferometry bound to something like a chip atomic clock [1] (~$4k in low quantities)? [1] https://coverclock.blogspot.com/2017/05/my-stratum-0-atomic-...
Comment linking /2017/05/my-stratum-0-atomic-clock_9.html
on “A simple 11.2 GHz radio telescope (Hardware) (2020)”Submitted My Stratum-0 Atomic Clock as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI'm not sure I would call a rubidium oscillator an "atomic clock". This, on the other hand, certainly qualifies: https://coverclock.blogspot.com/2017/05/my-stratum-0-atomic-... The CSAC module is somewhat more expensive, but still cheaper than a Swiss watch :-) That said, just because you have an atomic frequency reference doesn't mean you have a clock. You still need to compensate for gravitational time dilation (b…
Comment linking /2017/05/my-stratum-0-atomic-clock_9.html
on “Building the atomic clock I’ve always wanted”Some time ago I wrote a blog article about the lab notebooks I use. https://coverclock.blogspot.com/2008/07/daily-organization.h...
Comment linking /2008/07/daily-organization.html
on “Ask HN: What's your note-taking methodology?”I wrote a blog article on this very topic several years ago: https://coverclock.blogspot.com/2012/12/passion-practice-pro...
Comment linking /2012/12/passion-practice-proficiency-profession.html
on “Ask HN: What would you recommend a 16 year old to pursue career wise?”