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Personal blog · xlogicx.netprogrammingsystems

XlogicX is a personal blog at xlogicx.net about programming and systems. Since 2016, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Machining, a Love Story (in MS Paint)”. It has a working feed you can follow.

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14mentions?
7HN people?
2016–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2016

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog's post on how programming languages are classed by level, such as whether C or assembly counts as too low or too high level. One commenter cites it as the author's point.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Machining, a Love Story (in MS Paint)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-05-12

What Hacker News says?

  1. badrabbit · 2018-05-24
    Does it not depend on your objective? Would an embedded controller programmer have the same perspective as a desktop application programmer? Like the author mentions,some even think assembly is too high level ( http://xlogicx.net/?p=626 ) As a general purpose language,C is too low level today (thanks to modern languages alleviating the need to painstakingly manage memory and pointers ). Even for a desktop app,C woul…

    Comment linking /?p=626

    on “C is too low level”
  2. ingve · 2016-01-20

    Submitted Assembly Is Too High Level: SIB Doubles as a story · 62 points

    HN discussion
  3. ingve · 2018-09-26

    Submitted ARM Assembly Is Too High Level: ROR and RRX as a story · 58 points

    HN discussion
  4. ingve · 2016-02-13

    Submitted Repetition of REP Instructions That Don’t Repeat Anything as a story · 28 points

    HN discussion
  5. niDistinct · 2021-02-26

    Submitted Invoke is Too High Level (2018) as a story · 22 points

    HN discussion
  6. ingve · 2018-07-14

    Submitted ARM Assembly Is Too High Level: Moving by Shifting as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. ingve · 2016-08-30

    Submitted Boot Sector Graphical Programming as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. seisvelas · 2018-12-30

    Submitted Assembly is too high level as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. dpeck · 2016-05-12

    Submitted Machining, a Love Story (in MS Paint) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. ingve · 2019-01-19

    Submitted ARM 12-bit Immediates Are Too High Level as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. mnem · 2018-09-23

    Submitted ARM Atlas as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. ingve · 2017-04-13

    Submitted Sed/regex Based BrainFuck Compiler as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. ashitlerferad · 2016-08-03

    Submitted How to Machine as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. ashitlerferad · 2016-08-03

    Submitted Machining, a Love Story as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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