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x86.lol
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x86.lol is a personal blog at x86.lol about systems, hardware and security. Since 2019, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “Ways of Implementing a System Call”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-12-19, and you can follow it by feed.
I’m blogging about low-level topics and my operating system projects on x86 and RISC-V.
Most-linked posts?
- Ways of Implementing a System Call3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-07-06
- Confidential Computing: Complexity vs. Security2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-07
- Complexity in Operating Systems2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-30
- Hardening C Against ROP: Getting CET Shadow Stacks Working2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-09-23
- Creating an Immutable System with NixOS, systemd-repart and systemd-sysupdate2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-28
What Hacker News says?
Submitted Ways of Implementing a System Call as a story · 250 points
HN discussionSubmitted RISC-V Stumbling Blocks as a story · 123 points
HN discussionSubmitted Complexity in Operating Systems as a story · 84 points
HN discussionSubmitted Complexity in Operating Systems as a story · 24 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hardening C Against ROP: Getting CET Shadow Stacks Working as a story · 23 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating an Immutable System with NixOS, systemd-repart and systemd-sysupdate as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Polyglot NixOS as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted FOSDEM Edition: Thoughts on the Mikrokernels as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hardening C Against ROP: Getting CET Shadow Stacks Working as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Immutable Systems: Cross-Compiling for RISC-V Using Nix Flakes as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Quick and Dirty Website Change Monitoring as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Immutable Systems: NixOS and systemd-repart and systemd-sysupdate as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Confidential Computing: Complexity vs. Security as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted RISC-V: The Almost Unused Bit in JALR as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Intel TDX Doesn't Protect You from the Cloud as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ways of implementing a system call as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lanzaboote – NixOS Secure Boot as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Confidential Computing: Complexity vs. Security as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Split Lock Detection VM Hangs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Flawed Design of Intel TDX as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ioapic Mysteries: IRQ Pin Assertion Register as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Intel MPX, CET, SGX, WTF as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 1001 Ways of Implementing a System Call (2019) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Complexity in Operating Systems as a story · 1 points
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