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triangulatedexistence
Personal blog · triangulatedexistence.mataroa.blogprogrammingsystems
triangulatedexistence is a personal blog at triangulatedexistence.mataroa.blog about programming and systems. Since 2025, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “I uncovered an ACPI bug in my Dell Inspiron 5567. It was plaguing me for 8 years”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts on systems software and hardware, such as Apple Silicon versus x86 platform control and firmware issues. The comments discuss these topics but do not judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- I uncovered an ACPI bug in my Dell Inspiron 5567. It was plaguing me for 8 years3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-09-18
- Writing regex is pure joy. You can't convince me otherwise2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-10
What Hacker News says?
Honestly, it's because of what Sun's innovations in systems software that I look so fondly on their work. I do ask myself after reading the HN comment you linked, how often is the limiting factor of systems software the hardware? Potentially a case of this with consumer hardware is ACPI issues, like [1] and [2]. You could design the best software, but if your underlying firmware or hardware is faulty, then you would…
Comment linking /blog/i-uncovered-an-acpi-bug-in-my-dell-inspiron-5667-it-was-plaguing-me-for-8-years/
on “Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout”Submitted I uncovered an ACPI bug in my Dell Inspiron 5567. It was plaguing me for 8 years as a story · 194 points
HN discussionI think as jeffbee said below it's not even the custom ARM cores, but rather Apple's ability to control not only the hardware but the software on-top of it. In a typical Windows machine you are dealing with your CPU and microcode made by AMD/Intel/Other, then the BIOS/Driver code written by your motherboard manufacturer, and your GPU from either the on-board, or dGPU from Intel/Nvidia/AMD and then Windows made by Mi…
Comment linking /blog/i-uncovered-an-acpi-bug-in-my-dell-inspiron-5667-it-was-plaguing-me-for-8-years/
on “I'm spoiled by Apple Silicon but still love Framework”Submitted Writing regex is pure joy. You can't convince me otherwise as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing regex is pure joy. You can't convince me otherwise as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making a mathematical model for better Indic keyboards as a story · 1 points
HN discussion