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joshua stein
Personal blog · jcs.orgprogramminghardware
joshua stein's personal blog at jcs.org covers programming and hardware. Since 2008, 122 different Hacker News readers have linked it 197 times, most often “Hellbanned from Hacker News”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-19, and you can follow it by feed.
Sometimes recommended · 6 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Joshua Stein's blog for OpenBSD hardware guides, his System 6 Mac projects and his 2012 account of being hellbanned from Hacker News.
- Recommended for · 6 comments
- Called a very nice Framework writeup and a great X1 Carbon guide; also fascinating, useful and interesting.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Hellbanned from Hacker News12 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2012-06-13
- /system6c8 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2021-01-08
- OpenBSD on the Framework Laptop8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2021-08-06
- Advice for Operating a Public-Facing API (2023)8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2023-07-12
- My Fanless OpenBSD Desktop6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2021-07-20
- Cidco MailStation as a Z80 Development Platform6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2019-05-03
- OpenBSD in Stereo with Linux VFIO5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2018-11-13
- /5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-09-29
- Adding Wi-Fi to the Macintosh Portable (2023)4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2023-08-23
- Claude has to take that code from somewhere4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-07-24
What Hacker News says?
https://jcs.org/2021/08/06/framework > 2021-08-09: I added Tiger Lake LP support to pchgpio, enabling GPIO interrupt support for ihidev, which was needed to make the touchpad work properly in non-polling mode (and apparently not cause the EC to randomly freak out and power down the system). > 2021-08-31: Closing the laptop’s lid does not currently cause an S3 suspend due to a bug in the DSDT of the Framework Laptop…
Comment linking /2021/08/06/framework
on “MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch”Submitted iMac G4(K) as a story · 424 points
HN discussionMore likely Paul Graham being his usual self: https://jcs.org/notaweblog/2012/06/13/hellbanned_from_hacker...
Comment linking /notaweblog/2012/06/13/hellbanned_from_hacker_news/
on “Stories that Hacker News removes from the front page”Submitted Switching from 1Password to Bitwarden as a story · 298 points
HN discussionI just found https://github.com/x56/airpyrt-tools and https://jcs.org/2018/06/12/airport_ssh -- fascinating!
Comment linking /2018/06/12/airport_ssh
on “Which of these Amazon Prime purchases are real?”Submitted My Fanless OpenBSD Desktop as a story · 273 points
HN discussionhttps://jcs.org/tagged/mac
Comment linking /tagged/mac
on “A Minimum Viable Computer, or Linux for $15”Submitted OpenBSD on the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano as a story · 249 points
HN discussionCarbon, gen6, chosen after reading Joshua Stein [0]. As I understand it, OpenBSD and NVIDIA aren't a lovely pairing. 0. https://jcs.org/2019/08/14/x1c7
Comment linking /2019/08/14/x1c7
on “I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs”Submitted My Fanless OpenBSD Desktop (2021) as a story · 200 points
HN discussionhttp://m5hosting.com and http://singlehop.com are two that i'd recommend. one thing to watch out for with dedicated hosting providers is that the networks are sometimes not so great. you may get a great deal on hardware and tons of bandwidth, but if it drops packets all the time, it's not worth it. make sure they segment you off onto a vlan (see http://jcs.org/mitm for why), make sure they are well peered, make sure…
Comment linking /sip
on “The Five Stages of Hosting”Submitted Adding a USB port to the ThinkPad X1 Nano (the hard way) as a story · 195 points
HN discussionThis fella has a number of interesting videos of development on System 6 using THINK C! https://jcs.org/2022/03/05/serial
Comment linking /2022/03/05/serial
on “IDEs we had 30 years ago”Submitted Hellbanned from Hacker News as a story · 187 points
HN discussionRelated link: https://lobste.rs/about And history: https://jcs.org/notaweblog/2012/06/13/hellbanned_from_hacker...
Comment linking /notaweblog/2012/06/13/hellbanned_from_hacker_news/
on “A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors (2018)”Submitted OpenBSD on the Microsoft Surface Go 2 as a story · 183 points
HN discussionhttps://jcs.org/openbsd-laptops
Comment linking /openbsd-laptops
on “OpenBSD Innovations”Submitted C Programming on System 6 – Implementing Multi-User Chat as a story · 135 points
HN discussionIf you look at... https://plan.cat/motd points to... https://plan.cat/~jcs Login: jcs Name: Joshua stein Directory: /jcs Shell: /bin/plan.cat Last login Wed Nov 17 03:15:42 2021 UTC Mail forwarded to jcs@jcs.org. Plan: Creating an IMAP client for and on a System 6 Mac, recording videos of its development at https://jcs.org/system6c Working on a WiFi RS232 modem thing with integrated PPP and an SSL-stripping SOCKS5 p…
Comment linking /system6c
on “.plan”Submitted OpenBSD on the Huawei MateBook X as a story · 125 points
HN discussionThe author is Joshua Stein ( https://jcs.org/projects ). I couldn't find the source.
Comment linking /projects
on “.plan”Submitted C Programming on System 6 – Intro [video] as a story · 114 points
HN discussionI'm hoping more device start offering 3:2 screens now. I was interested in the surface line too but decided against it for the same reasons as you. I ordered Huawei's Matebook X pro yesterday which was the only other laptop I saw which offers a nice 3:2 display. I'm hoping everything will work out of the box (this laptop uses intel wireless unlike the marvell chip on the surface) with any recent distro. Sidenote: I'…
Comment linking /2017/07/14/matebook
on “New Dell XPS 13 developer edition now available”Submitted Counting Pullups as a story · 109 points
HN discussionhttps://jcs.org/system6c
Comment linking /system6c
on “Clarus returns home in macOS Ventura”Submitted Live Streaming a Macintosh Plus as a story · 104 points
HN discussioni've had an ecobee ( http://ecobee.com/ ) thermostat for a few years and it's little more than a way to bump the heat up while i'm lying in bed. i work from my home so i can't do much with pre-programmed schedules, and i have a dog so i can't let the place get super hot or cold if i'm gone during the day. when it first debuted, they tried to charge a monthly fee for the website (which is a key part of the product, t…
Comment linking /notaweblog/2011/08/30/an_ecobee_automation_hack/
on “Nest - The Learning Thermostat”Submitted Wallops: A modern IRC client for classic Mac OS as a story · 94 points
HN discussionHere’s also some good recommendations: https://jcs.org/2023/07/12/api
Comment linking /2023/07/12/api
on “Everything I know about good API design”Submitted Writing and running a BBS on a Macintosh Plus as a story · 94 points
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