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Geir's Everything

Personal blog · isene.orgprogrammingphilosophysystems

Geir's Everything is a personal blog at isene.org about programming, philosophy and systems. Since 2020, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 29 times, most often “Building a 64-Bit OS from Scratch with Claude Code”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.

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29mentions?
17HN people?
2020–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 19 in 2026

Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Geir's posts on the 'Audience of One' idea of software built for a single user, plus project pages for CHasm and Fe2O3 and a terminal calculator tool, T_REX.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Philosophy - Sciences - Geekery - Art - Life - Coaching - Fun < Simplify Everything

Most-linked posts?

  1. Building a 64-Bit OS from Scratch with Claude Code
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-11-26
  2. A Desktop Made for One
    3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-05-03
  3. /2026/05/Audience-of-One-Numbers.html
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-04
  4. My Login Shell in Assembly
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-10

What Hacker News says?

  1. To be honest, I mostly use a physical calculator (Swissmicros DM41L, which is an HP41CX clone). Second choice is the i41CX+ app on my phone. The HP41 keyboard and operational patterns were etched into my brain at university, since my first engineering calculator was an HP41C. I have used rpncalc and T_REX ( https://isene.org/2021/02/T-REX.html ) in the terminal, dc or gforth in a pinch.

    Comment linking /2021/02/T-REX.html

    on “2-in-1 calculator app adds up to surprise hit for retired engineer”
  2. Submitted What does it take to keep a conspiracy secret? as a story · 21 points

    HN discussion
  3. There is the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X32_ABI for AMD64 at least. But it's looking rather bitrotten and is frowned upon by the snobs. Nobody is using it. Justine Tunney's https://www.justinetunney.com/ APE and Cosmopolitan libc shows what's possible, though. https://www.justinetunney.com/cosmo3/ https://www.justinetunney.com/ape.html https://www.justinetunney.com/matmul/ And then there is vibecoded stuff like h…

    Comment linking /chasm/

    on “There's no reason for software to be slow anymore”
  4. Submitted I'm with Linus as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  5. CHasm: https://isene.org/chasm/ Fe2O3: https://isene.org/fe2o3/

    Comment linking /fe2o3/

    on “A Desktop Made for One”
  6. Submitted A Desktop Made for One as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  7. For those who may be interested - I broke down some numbers for my CHasm and Fe2O3 efforts in a new blog post: https://isene.org/2026/05/Audience-of-One-Numbers.html

    Comment linking /2026/05/Audience-of-One-Numbers.html

    on “A Desktop Made for One”
  8. Submitted Frame – the first Linux Assembly X server as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. Was browsing some of the other rust projects( https://isene.org/fe2o3/#tools ) and https://github.com/isene/torii says "Mozilla removed Firefox's "Open network login page" banner". I'm on windows and still see the banner so don't know if this is true. Is the really true on Linux?

    Comment linking /fe2o3/

    on “Frame – the first Linux Assembly X server”
  10. Submitted Using Claude to create a bootable Forth OS as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. I highly agree with the pro-Lisp sentiment. The main article that comes to mind while reading this was also posted a little while back on this forum: https://isene.org/2026/05/Audience-of-One.html

    Comment linking /2026/05/Audience-of-One.html

    on “The Emacsification of Software”
  12. Submitted Building a 64-Bit OS from Scratch with Claude Code as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  13. This reminds me of the other article posted on here, https://isene.org/2026/05/Audience-of-One.html Everyday more bespoke dotfiles are coming online for an audience of one. I am not surprised that this is coming to hardware as well.

    Comment linking /2026/05/Audience-of-One.html

    on “The Age of Personalized Hardware Is Coming”
  14. Submitted Astropanel – Astronomy Program for the Terminal as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  15. Be your customer, write the software just for you, AI is so effective that you could do something meaningful for you just in spare tine. Here is the similar perspective: https://isene.org/2026/05/Audience-of-One-Numbers.html I was misunderstood you if you intend to write code by hand, I still did, I use AI to learn by example, but I write the real code myself, AI can help me improve the code. I learned a lot.

    Comment linking /2026/05/Audience-of-One-Numbers.html

    on “The Coming Loop”
  16. Submitted In search of the perfect pocket device as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  17. https://isene.org/2026/05/Audience-of-One.html

    Comment linking /2026/05/Audience-of-One.html

    on “Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March”
  18. Submitted Circuits in the Terminal as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted The Moon in the Terminal as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted The Agency Stack as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted A desktop that bends to me as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted My Login Shell in Assembly as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted My Tools – All Vibecoded as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted My Login Shell in Assembly as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted Process vs. Result – Why Some Programmers Resist AI as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted Building a 64-Bit OS from Scratch with Claude Code as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted Building a 64-Bit OS from Scratch with Claude Code as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted RTFM – Screencast (Ruby Terminal File Manager) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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