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Jonas Hvid
Personal blog · johv.dk/blog · on HN as a7b3faprogrammingsystemshardware
Jonas Hvid's personal blog at johv.dk covers programming, systems and hardware. Since 2020, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Getting started with bare-metal assembly”. 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 this blog for low-level programming posts, including a bare-metal assembly tutorial and a guide to creating a bootable USB drive with the UEFI Shell.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Getting started with bare-metal assembly4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-03-25
What Hacker News says?
There has perviously been a nice guide posted on HN on getting code to run on bare metal: https://johv.dk/blog/bare-metal-assembly-tutorial.html
Comment linking /blog/bare-metal-assembly-tutorial.html
on “Show HN: I made my own OS from scratch because I was bored”Submitted Getting started with bare-metal assembly as a story · 422 points
HN discussionJonesforth is insanely cool. The linked mirror seems to be missing 'jonesforth.f'. Maybe try check out this one[1] for the full implementation. I recently tried porting Jonesforth to UEFI[2], so I could run it directly on my hardware without needing an operating system. I was actually surprised by how easy it turned out to be. Okay, admittedly I ended up rushing a bit towards the end, and the final result is very ba…
Comment linking /blog/bare-metal-assembly-tutorial.html
on “Jonesforth: Implementing Forth in Assembly”Submitted Getting started with bare-metal assembly as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThe idea that led to the above link is as follows: "Someone has probably written an open-source UEFI/EFI shell by now... Something like that might be interesting for interacting with my laptop's UEFI at a lower level..." It turns out someone did. In this case, TianoCore/EDK2's shell (but I'm sure there are others): https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/UDK2018/ShellBinPkg/U... Related: CHIPSEC: Platform Security As…
Comment linking /blog/bare-metal-assembly-tutorial.html
on “Creating a Bootable USB Drive with UEFI Shell”Submitted Programming can still be magical as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Programming can still be magical as a story · 4 points
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