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JP's Website
Personal blog · thejpster.org.uk/bloghardwaresystems
JP's Website is a personal blog at thejpster.org.uk about hardware and systems. Since 2023, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “Rust on the RP2350 (2024)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a post on the unusual details of how a DEC Alpha computer boots. One commenter describes the linked post as full of weird details.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Rust on the RP2350 (2024)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-08-09
- An AlphaStation's SROM2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-31
- Playing with HP Pa-RISC2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-23
- Everything I know about floppy disks2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-09-04
- Why aren't my two Cortex-A9 cores cache coherent?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-08-23
- The History of PC Audio2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-11-09
What Hacker News says?
Blog post full of weird details the article links to: https://thejpster.org.uk/blog/blog-2025-03-30/
Comment linking /blog/blog-2025-03-30/
on “The weird way a DEC Alpha boots”Submitted Rust on the RP2350 (2024) as a story · 148 points
HN discussionSubmitted Installing and using HP-UX 9 as a story · 129 points
HN discussionSubmitted The curious case of the Unix workstation layout as a story · 100 points
HN discussionSubmitted My new POWER Indigo 2 as a story · 89 points
HN discussionSubmitted An AlphaStation's SROM as a story · 79 points
HN discussionSubmitted How many SPARCs is too many SPARCs? as a story · 74 points
HN discussionSubmitted Running Linux on a RiscPC – why is it so hard? as a story · 51 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pre-Emptive Multi-Tasking on Arm Cortex-M as a story · 49 points
HN discussionSubmitted The History of PC Audio as a story · 20 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everything I know about floppy disks as a story · 20 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why aren't my two Cortex-A9 cores cache coherent? as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted RP2350 Launch Blog as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted Playing with HP Pa-RISC as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Running Linux on a RiscPC, why is it so hard? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted RP2350 Launch Blog as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The History of PC Audio as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why aren't my two Cortex-A9 cores cache coherent? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust Async and the Arm Generic Timer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Finding the Time on AArch32 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everything I know about floppy disks (2023) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Playing with HP Pa-RISC as a story · 1 points
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