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Mete Balci
Personal blog · metebalci.com/bloghardwaresystems
Mete Balci's personal blog at metebalci.com covers hardware and systems. Since 2020, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Hello IPv6: a minimal tutorial for IPv4 users”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Mete Balci's blog for practical technical explainers, such as a plain-language overview of what's new in Java 16, plus posts on Lisp machines and IPv6.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Mete Balci's blog; articles mostly about computers and electronics topics.
Most-linked posts?
- Hello IPv6: a minimal tutorial for IPv4 users3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-10-07
- /blog/cadr-lisp-machine-and-cadr-processor/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-09-07
What Hacker News says?
Not the OP, but my understanding (admittedly a few years outdated) is that an MSP430 will, in idle, with sleep states properly set up and low power modes in use, drain a coin cell battery (e.g. CR2032) over a period of years - with the current drawn around 1.5 uA in standby and 0.1uA in RAM retention idle. That is likely even lower than the effective self discharge rate of a lithium coin cell battery. I don't believ…
Comment linking /blog/measuring-the-power-consumption-of-an-arm-cortex-m0-mcu-stm32f072/
on “Show HN: I made a tiny camera with super long battery life”Submitted Hello IPv6: a minimal tutorial for IPv4 users as a story · 225 points
HN discussionList of features and explanations with no BS on what's new in Java 16 : https://metebalci.com/blog/what-is-new-in-java-16/
Comment linking /blog/what-is-new-in-java-16/
on “Java 16”Submitted Hello IPv6: a minimal tutorial for IPv4 users as a story · 78 points
HN discussioni don't think they were unrelated; the groups developing them were in constant contact and had thick webs of mutual acquaintances. teitelman had grown up at mit before going off to parc to write interlisp, and parc was full of former arpa researchers i do think they made noticeably (and fascinatingly) different choices not only in what they designed for their user interfaces but also what they thought of as a good u…
Comment linking /blog/cadr-lisp-machine-and-cadr-processor/
on “The PERQ Computer”Submitted A Minimum Complete Tutorial of CPU Power Management, C-states and P-states as a story · 6 points
HN discussionAnother thing you might choose to do is run another (closer) descendant of one the last MIT AI Lab versions of Lisp machine system software, pieced together from tape backups of the AI Lab. Like Plan 9, the community seems to have spun itself its own living distro, still running on MIT CADR simulators. [1], [2]. [1] https://tumbleweed.nu/lm-3/ [2] https://metebalci.com/blog/cadr-lisp-machine-and-cadr-proces...
Comment linking /blog/cadr-lisp-machine-and-cadr-processor/
on “Refurb weekend: the Symbolics MacIvory Lisp machine I have hated”Submitted A Minimum Complete Tutorial of Linux Ext4 File System as a story · 6 points
HN discussionhttps://metebalci.com/blog/hello-ipv6/
Comment linking /blog/hello-ipv6/
on “Adventures with Verizon FiOS IPv6”Submitted A Minimum Complete Tutorial of Portable Document Format [pdf] with Pdfsh as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Quick Tour of NVM Express (NVMe) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Tutorial of CPU Power Management, C-states and P-states (2018) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Minimum Complete Tutorial of Linux Ext4 File System as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Studying Ethernet Physical Layer 1 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everything about Java's SecureRandom (2017) as a story · 1 points
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