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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.

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24mentions?
9HN people?
2019–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2024

I’m blogging about low-level topics and my operating system projects on x86 and RISC-V.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Ways of Implementing a System Call
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-07-06
  2. Confidential Computing: Complexity vs. Security
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-07
  3. Complexity in Operating Systems
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-30
  4. Hardening C Against ROP: Getting CET Shadow Stacks Working
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-09-23
  5. Creating an Immutable System with NixOS, systemd-repart and systemd-sysupdate
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-28

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted Ways of Implementing a System Call as a story · 250 points

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  2. Submitted RISC-V Stumbling Blocks as a story · 123 points

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  3. Submitted Complexity in Operating Systems as a story · 84 points

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  4. Submitted Complexity in Operating Systems as a story · 24 points

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  5. Submitted Hardening C Against ROP: Getting CET Shadow Stacks Working as a story · 23 points

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  6. Submitted Creating an Immutable System with NixOS, systemd-repart and systemd-sysupdate as a story · 9 points

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  7. Submitted The Polyglot NixOS as a story · 5 points

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  8. Submitted FOSDEM Edition: Thoughts on the Mikrokernels as a story · 4 points

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  9. Submitted Hardening C Against ROP: Getting CET Shadow Stacks Working as a story · 3 points

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  10. Submitted Immutable Systems: Cross-Compiling for RISC-V Using Nix Flakes as a story · 3 points

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  11. Submitted Quick and Dirty Website Change Monitoring as a story · 2 points

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  12. Submitted Immutable Systems: NixOS and systemd-repart and systemd-sysupdate as a story · 2 points

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  13. Submitted Confidential Computing: Complexity vs. Security as a story · 2 points

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  14. Submitted RISC-V: The Almost Unused Bit in JALR as a story · 2 points

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  15. Submitted Intel TDX Doesn't Protect You from the Cloud as a story · 2 points

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  16. Submitted Ways of implementing a system call as a story · 2 points

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  17. Submitted Lanzaboote – NixOS Secure Boot as a story · 1 points

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  18. Submitted Confidential Computing: Complexity vs. Security as a story · 1 points

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  19. Submitted Split Lock Detection VM Hangs as a story · 1 points

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  20. Submitted The Flawed Design of Intel TDX as a story · 1 points

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  21. Submitted Ioapic Mysteries: IRQ Pin Assertion Register as a story · 1 points

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  22. Submitted Intel MPX, CET, SGX, WTF as a story · 1 points

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  23. Submitted 1001 Ways of Implementing a System Call (2019) as a story · 1 points

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  24. Submitted Complexity in Operating Systems as a story · 1 points

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