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Shawn Anastasio
Personal blog · anastas.iosystemsprogramming
Shawn Anastasio's personal blog at anastas.io covers systems and programming. Since 2016, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Implementing a basic x86 page frame allocator in C”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as one of several OS-development resources, including a post on memory and page frame allocation, that a commenter found helpful for learning to write a minimal operating system.
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.
A little blog showcasing some of my projects and findings over the years.
Most-linked posts?
- Implementing a basic x86 page frame allocator in C2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-08-09
What Hacker News says?
If you'd like the links that really helped me, check out this: http://www.osdever.net/bkerndev/Docs/title.htm http://www.brokenthorn.com/Resources/OSDevIndex.html https://github.com/stephenfewer/NoNameOS https://anastas.io/osdev/memory/2016/08/08/page-frame-alloca... https://github.com/kjiwa/x86-boot-sector-c These are all useful. If you're more of a book worm check out Minix as said in other parts of this tree. Ver…
Comment linking /osdev/memory/2016/08/08/page-frame-allocator.html
on “Thor – A minimalistic operating system in assembly and C++”Submitted Implementing a basic x86 page frame allocator in C as a story · 65 points
HN discussionSubmitted Debugging incorrectly closed file descriptors with LD_PRELOAD as a story · 2 points
HN discussion