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Xobs' Blog

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Xobs' Blog is a personal blog at xobs.io about hardware and security. Since 2014, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Trace Together Token: Teardown and Design Overview”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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4mentions?
4HN people?
2014–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2020

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters link Xobs' Blog for the Xous operating system announcement and the teardown of the Singapore TraceTogether token, as sources for more detail on those topics.

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?

  1. Trace Together Token: Teardown and Design Overview
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-06-21

What Hacker News says?

  1. We are gettig an increasing amount of interesting Rust operating system for different uses. - Hubris for deep embedded - Redox OS for Desktop/Server ( https://www.redox-os.org/ ) - Tock for embedded ( https://www.tockos.org/ ) - Xous for trusted devices ( https://xobs.io/announcing-xous-the-betrusted-operating-syst... ) I assume there are more.

    Comment linking /announcing-xous-the-betrusted-operating-system/

    on “Hubris – A small operating system for deeply-embedded computer systems”
  2. Submitted Trace Together Token: Teardown and Design Overview as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  3. https://xobs.io/trace-together-token-teardown/ has more details

    Comment linking /trace-together-token-teardown/

    on “Teardown of the Singaporean Covid-19 TraceTogether Token”
  4. Submitted Fernvale: The Path Not Taken as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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