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Stephen Smith
Personal blog · smist08.wordpress.comhardwaresystemsai
Stephen Smith's personal blog at smist08.wordpress.com covers hardware, systems and ai. Since 2020, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 52 times, most often “Apple M1 Assembly Language Hello World”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Stephen Smith's WordPress blog for technical posts on out-of-order instruction execution and ARM64 assembly programming on Apple silicon. Comments cite these posts as sources.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Apple M1 Assembly Language Hello World4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-01-08
- Back to Basics (2022)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-09-04
- ARM’s True RISC Processors2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-10-02
What Hacker News says?
> Programming has not changed all that much and it was not so long time ago that programmers routinely knew assembly and how many cycles (and bytes) each opcode took... That statement partly highlights the problem. It assumes linear execution, when in reality, for most performance-critical products, out-of-order execution is the reality. For example: https://smist08.wordpress.com/2019/11/15/out-of-order-instru... Mo…
Comment linking /2019/11/15/out-of-order-instructions/
on “Suez Canal says traffic in channel resumes after stranded ship refloated”Submitted Apple M1 Assembly Language Hello World as a story · 372 points
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on “Apple M1 Assembly Language Hello World”Submitted Exciting Days for ARM Processors as a story · 145 points
HN discussionJust for fun, I wondered how small a canonical hello world program could be in macOS running an ARM processor. Below is based on what I found here[0] with minor command-line switch alterations to account for a newer OS version. ARM64 assembly program (hw.s): // // Assembler program to print "Hello World!" // to stdout. // // X0-X2 - parameters to linux function services // X16 - linux function number // .global _sta…
Comment linking /2021/01/08/apple-m1-assembly-language-hello-world/
on “Show HN: Lstr – A modern, interactive tree command written in Rust”Submitted Assembly Language is Number 8 as a story · 38 points
HN discussionSubmitted Back to Basics (2022) as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted Adding Vision to the SunFounder PiCar-X as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted Facebook Pirated My Books as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Remembering BASIC and giving QB64 a try as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apple M1 Assembly Language Hello World (2021) as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted RISC-V on the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Espressif ESP32-C3-DevKit RISC-V Review as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apple M1 Assembly Language Hello World as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Technology Predictions for 2021 as a story · 3 points
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HN discussionSubmitted Mister, Playstation 1, Nintendo 64 and the MIPS CPU as a story · 2 points
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HN discussionSubmitted Starfive Visionfive 2 SBC Update as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Simulating RISC-V on a Raspberry Pi as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tracking Aircraft with a Raspberry Pi as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Playing with FreeDOS and GW-Basic as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted RP2040 Assembly Language Programming as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 2020’s Best New Technologies as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What’s Next for the Apple M2 ARM CPU as a story · 2 points
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