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Jason Eckert
Personal blog · jasoneckert.github.io · on HN as jasoneckertsystemshardwarewriting
Jason Eckert's personal blog at jasoneckert.github.io covers systems, hardware and writing. Since 2020, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 69 times, most often “SPARCbook 3000ST: The coolest 90s laptop (2019)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Most-linked posts?
- SPARCbook 3000ST: The coolest 90s laptop (2019)3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-11-02
- Fedora Asahi Remix first impressions2 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2023-08-12
- SPARCbook Teardown2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-01-30
- /myblog/github-discussions-blog/2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-09-30
- Ontario's Computer: The Burroughs ICON2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-04-03
- Copyleft Is Dying2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-02-01
- Grace Blackwell Desktop Supercomputer: First Impressions2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-11-20
- The Galaga no-fire-cheat mystery (2012)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-27
What Hacker News says?
The Internet has been stored safe on my desk since that time: https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/i-created-the-internet/...
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on “Internet in a Box”Submitted SPARCbook 3000ST: The coolest 90s laptop (2019) as a story · 291 points
HN discussion> Difference is Sun was providing a "full stack" proprietary product including CPUs running a proprietary ISA, Unix OS, compiler, desktop environment and productivity apps. SPARC was not proprietary, buy fully licensable: * https://sparc.org Fujitsu sold their own SPARC servers for many years with their own CPUs, and many third-parties put Fujitsu SPARC CPUs into (e.g.) laptops: * https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblo…
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on “What Sun got wrong”Submitted ARM64 Linux Workstation as a story · 105 points
HN discussionI beat Tetris back in 2020 (although by a different means): https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/i-finally-beat-tetris/
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on “After 34 years, someone beat Tetris [video]”Submitted Ontario's Computer: The Burroughs ICON as a story · 87 points
HN discussionjasoneckert.net (which forwards to https://jasoneckert.github.io ) I've owned this domain for a few decades, and I've revamped the structure and look of the site over that period 3 times from plain HTML to iWeb to Hugo composited.
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on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted Using Asahi Linux as a developer workstation as a story · 79 points
HN discussionYou can use github for comments, I had implemented it on my blog earlier. Currently removed the section completly. Here is an example on this site. https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/github-discussions-blog...
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on “I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse”Submitted Ontario's Computer: The Burroughs ICON (2022) as a story · 66 points
HN discussionWhen I was evaluating ways to add comments to my blog on GitHub Pages, I quickly passed by Disqus because it was a 3rd party service that I didn't trust for reasons like this. Instead, I went with a tight solution that minimized 3rd party interaction: GitHub Discussions leveraged using the Giscus app ( https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/github-discussions-blog... ). You have to have a GitHub account to post commen…
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on “I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse”Submitted Microsoft probably killed my Snapdragon Dev Kit as a story · 15 points
HN discussionApple has always perpetuated a Cult of Mac since the Apple II days. I believe this is tactical from a marketing standpoint. Here is a detailed blog on it: https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/cult-of-mac/
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on “Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at around $2k?”Submitted Win10 Is Nearing End-of-Life: What Should You Do Next? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionFirstly, I agree with your points here. And while other comments here have pointed out that not all hardware is supported yet (a valid criticism), I feel it's also important to note that the current user experience of Asahi on Apple Silicon is stellar (as has been since it was released in Alpha). I've been using Asahi for over 3 months now as my daily driver to do real development work ( https://jasoneckert.github.i…
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on “Linux 5.19”Submitted Canada: The Unsung Hero of AI Innovation as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThe ICON picture in this blog post is of my ICON and taken from my blog (with credit, which is a nice gesture). If anyone is interested in reading my two posts about the Burroughs ICON computer running QNX, here are the links (the first post has YouTube links of my QNX demos): https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/icon-computer/ https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/lexicon-computer/
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on “The QNX Operating System”Submitted Copyleft Is Dying as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI actually do something similar on my personal site using this note that includes a purposeful typo: https://jasoneckert.github.io/site/about-this-site/ I'm hoping people catch that typo after reading "every single word, phrase, and typo (purposeful or not)" and smiled every time I've had someone post a PR with a fix for it (that I subsequently reject ;-)
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on “Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans.”Submitted SPARCbook Teardown as a story · 5 points
HN discussionIn short, all apps run faster - I have some more detail in this blog post (which also includes a link to my original blog post with additional performance details): https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/fedora-asahi-remix/ I suspect this is primarily due to Linux being a more performance-optimized OS compared to macOS, which seems to have introduced a great deal of bloat over the years.
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on “Linux on Apple Silicon with Alyssa Rosenzweig [audio]”Submitted Grace Blackwell Desktop Supercomputer: First Impressions as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIt was nice to see the bit in the video about the Tadpole SPARCbook 3000XT. They are incredibly rare compared to Sun desktop workstations, but a lot of fun. I wrote about the 3000ST model: https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/sparcbook3000st-the-coo...
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on “End the line: The last Sun SPARC workstation [video]”Submitted Linux is Making Apple Great Again as a story · 3 points
HN discussionTrue, of course - but they may as well have been made by Sun, since they use Sun's custom ICs and were basically a SPARCstation in a laptop form factor: https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/sparcbook-teardown/
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on “Collection of Sun Workstation boot logos”Submitted The time I yoga-balled an Apple store employee as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYou could even argue that digital social networks predated modern computing by 100 years: https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/so-you-think-online-con...
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on “John McAfee Developed One of the First Social Networks”Submitted The Power of RISC Architecture as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAsahi Linux performs far better on Apple Silicon hardware compared to macOS for server-related tasks ( https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/ultimate-linux-arm64-wo... )
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on “Tour of new custom M1 macOS runners racks with Christina Warren [video]”Submitted A Brief History of Computing as a story · 2 points
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