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movq.de (en) is a personal blog at uninformativ.de about systems and security. Since 2017, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 29 times, most often “(Almost) square pixels in the terminal (2016)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked posts cover low-level computing topics: X11 clipboard explainers, a Unicode trick for near-square terminal characters, and a Build Your Own X list. Commenters mostly share them as links.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- (Almost) square pixels in the terminal (2016)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-08-30
- X11: How does “the” clipboard work?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-08-01
What Hacker News says?
https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2018-02-24/0/POSTI...
Comment linking /blog/postings/2018-02-24/0/POSTING-en.html
on “Build Your Own X”Submitted Python’s “type hints” are a bit of a disappointment to me as a story · 338 points
HN discussionWell, at this point you get few features but still lots of bugs ;) But yes, the minimalism is very much intentional - I have no interest in letting it grow all that much, and no interest in lots of decoration (I might add support for some ; especially inspired by how Katriawm does it [1] - it basically just slaps images on each side in separate windows - it's high "bang for the bucks" in terms of flexibility for ver…
Comment linking /git/katriawm/file/README.html
on “RubyWM – an X11 window manager in pure Ruby”Submitted A quick look at OS/2's builtin virtualization as a story · 156 points
HN discussionFor those wondering about how Windows does this, there is, as you'd expect, a Raymond Chen article about it: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20210526-00/?p=10... (and some more, like https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220608-00/?p=10... ) Elsewhere in these comments there is also a link to an explainer for the macOS equivalent. Here's also an explainer for X11: https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/p…
Comment linking /blog/postings/2017-04-02/0/POSTING-en.html
on “How the clipboard works”Submitted The Linux kernel can spawn processes on its own as a story · 149 points
HN discussionAwesome! For the images you can go one step further with this fun Unicode hack to make the terminal characters almost square: https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2016-12-17/0/POSTI...
Comment linking /blog/postings/2016-12-17/0/POSTING-en.html
on “ROSshow: ASCII art visualizations for robot sensor data”Submitted Revisiting Linux CPU Scheduling as a story · 102 points
HN discussionLariza (webkit2gtk4 browser, head to https://uninformativ.de or gopher://uninformativ.de from Lynx ) runs fast enough under OpenBSD i386 base Intel Atom n270 netbook with 1GB of RAM and an Intel 945 iGPU with GL 1.4. Take that as a reference.
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on “NetBSD improves support for the Commodore Amiga”Submitted Time(1) and CPU Frequency Scaling as a story · 81 points
HN discussionWow, this is going to keep me busy for a while. Thanks. > I always thought the way X window managers worked put the cart before the donkey: the client starts first, then the window manager wraps it in a generic frame. I agree, the reparenting stuff is painful and not very clean. Doubly so because you need to be very careful not to "lose" windows that way if you reparent the window and the wm dies (it happened to me…
Comment linking /git/katriawm/file/README.html
on “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Plans for Wayland and Xorg Server”Submitted A quick look at unprivileged sandboxing as a story · 63 points
HN discussionSubmitted The X11 Security extension from the 1990s as a story · 55 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mkfs.fat on Linux vs. OS/2 2.1 as a story · 38 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scratching the surface: perf stat and Hyper-Threading as a story · 26 points
HN discussionSubmitted A "hello world" program in machine code on DOS as a story · 24 points
HN discussionSubmitted Advent of OS/2 as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted TCP/IP on Windows for Workgroups 3.11 in 2025 under QEMU as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing letters with groff and an old printer as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted x86-64 and Beyond as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Upgrading OpenBSD on a Pentium 133 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted X11: How does “the” clipboard work? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted EduTerm: a very, very basic terminal emulator as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted (Almost) square pixels in the terminal (2016) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Asymmetric daylight saving time in the EU as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A gallery of cross-references and automatically numbered headings as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted IPC: Posix Message Queues (2016) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Jenny and mutt: Getting started with twtxt as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Peter Hofmann: “A decentralized web is good: All projects have moved” as a story · 1 points
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