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Yeo Kheng Meng
Personal blog · yeokhengmeng.comhardwareprogrammingsystems
Yeo Kheng Meng writes YKM's Corner on the Web, a personal blog at yeokhengmeng.com about hardware, programming and systems. Since 2017, 23 different Hacker News readers have linked it 42 times, most often “Llama 2 LLM on DOS”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-17, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Personal blog cited by HN commenters for a Windows 3.1 Slack client build, a Windows for Workgroups RAM note, a PCB business card and a Framework laptop repair review.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Llama 2 LLM on DOS4 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2025-04-15
- A Science Project: "Make the 486 Great Again!" - Modern Linux in an ancient PC (2018)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-06-12
- Building a DOS ChatGPT Client in 20233 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-03-26
- DOS's Last Stand on a Modern ThinkPad: X13 Gen 1 with Intel 10th-Gen Core CPU2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-18
- Bringing USB 3 and USB4/Thunderbolt to Windows 98 to 72 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-10-17
- Modern 2024 PC with a vintage twist (ft. Ryzen 5 7600 and GeForce 4060 Ti)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-10-06
- Windows for Workgroups 3.11 on vintage and modern hardware in 20162 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-05-15
- Teardown of Aircraft Transponder2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-06-21
What Hacker News says?
You are correct. My 390E has 384MB of RAM but only 256MB is accessible by Win 3.1. An earlier blog post shows this http://yeokhengmeng.com/2016/09/windows-for-workgroups-3-11-...
Comment linking /2016/09/windows-for-workgroups-3-11-on-vintage-and-modern-hardware-in-2016/
on “Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client”Submitted Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client as a story · 705 points
HN discussionUnsure why it goes to twitter. Here is the blog post. http://yeokhengmeng.com/2019/12/building-a-new-win-3-1-app-i...
Comment linking /2019/12/building-a-new-win-3-1-app-in-2019-part-1-slack-client/
on “Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client”Submitted Modern Linux in an ancient PC as a story · 198 points
HN discussionAnother one: https://yeokhengmeng.com/2015/09/pcb-businessname-card/
Comment linking /2015/09/pcb-businessname-card/
on “PCB Business Card”Submitted Why I use the IBM Model M keyboard that is older than me as a story · 152 points
HN discussionThe advice in this checklist is horrendously bad and nobody should follow it. Details: > Restrict /usr partition mount options. Example: UUID=<...> /usr ext4 defaults,nodev,ro 0 2 Mounting /usr read-only will break system updates, and it's worthless from a security perspective, since nothing in /usr is writable by anyone but root, and root is capable of remounting it read-write. Ditto for the same advice about /boot…
Comment linking /2018/01/make-the-486-great-again/
on “Linux Hardening Checklist”Submitted Installing Windows XP on a modern unsupported (Haswell) system in 2016 as a story · 43 points
HN discussionEvery car can brake, turn and accelerate much harder than any of us will even think to do especially turning and braking. But you pinpointed why we must not attempt to reach for the limit, not for us but for the others. And anyway a normal car won't lay long if driven like a racing car. Every single component is not designed for that. The usual computer analogy /s You don't run a LLM on a Core Duo 2, but of course h…
Comment linking /2025/04/llama2-llm-on-dos/
on “My Midlife Crisis Corolla Is Fast, Furious, and Modded”Submitted How does MS Fight Simulator compare to real flights? (2020) as a story · 24 points
HN discussionThe QR code bit interested me, but the issue he describes has been fixed, you can test it by scanning the QR code on this image: https://yeokhengmeng.com/2021/09/review-usage-and-repair-of-... The encoded information goes to a URL shorterner https://fr.mw/[removed_extra_characters] that redirects to a human-readable URL (e.g. guides.frame.work/Guide/Framework+Laptop+DIY+Edition+Quick+Start+Guide/57 ). fr.mw seems to…
Comment linking /2021/09/review-usage-and-repair-of-the-framework-laptop/images/fw-certification-logos.jpg
on “Framework 12th gen laptop review”Submitted Bringing the Covox Speech Thing to 2017 as a story · 21 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Science Project: "Make the 486 Great Again!" - Modern Linux in an ancient PC (2018) as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Llama 2 LLM on DOS as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted DOS's Last Stand on a Modern ThinkPad: X13 Gen 1 with Intel 10th-Gen Core CPU as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted DOS's Last Stand on a modern ThinkPad: X13 Gen 1 with Intel i5-10310U (2024) as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Teardown of Aircraft Transponder as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bringing USB 3 and USB4/Thunderbolt to Windows 98 to 7 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bringing modern USB xHCI support to Windows 98/2K as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bringing Swift to the Apple ][ as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Modern 2024 PC with a vintage twist (ft. Ryzen 5 7600 and GeForce 4060 Ti) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Radar theory and a teardown of an aircraft transponder as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Modern Linux in an ancient PC (2018) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted My first chip with Tiny Tapeout 4: Covox Speech Thing clone as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bringing USB 3 and USB4/Thunderbolt to Windows 98 to 7 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Llama 2 LLM on DOS (2025) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Llama 2 LLM on DOS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Llama 2 LLM on DOS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Modern 2024 PC with a vintage twist as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Setting up an open-frame Pentium 3 testbench as a story · 2 points
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