Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderI got this running on qemu by cannibalizing a tiny bit of code from xv6 (http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2012/xv6.html) to replace the GRUB dependency. After cloning and building mkernel according to its instructions: $ git clone git://pdos.csail.mit.edu/xv6/xv6.git $ cd xv6 $ make Now you should be able to run xv6 by itself: $ path-to-qemu/x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -serial mon:stdio -hdb fs.img xv6.img -m 512 To run mkernel on qemu, we'll replace xv6's kernel with mkernel's: $ dd if=/dev/zero…
Bare metal projects are always a fun hobby. I've done some projects like this in the past [0], let me share some things I learned the hard way. If the author is reading, here are a few corrections. > char * vidptr = (char * )0xb8000; This needs "volatile" qualifier or all the writes to video memory will be dropped when optimization is enabled. Memory mapped I/O like this is one of the few use cases where you need "volatile"…
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 789
- Total comments
- 150
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-04-14 | Kernel 101 – Let’s write a KernelFirst breakout · Best thread | slashdotaccount | 435 | 100 |
| 2014-06-14 | Great intro to writing a kernel for newbies | slashdotaccount | 1 | 0 |
| 2017-10-19 | Kernel 101 – Let’s write a Kernel | prando | 3 | 0 |
| 2017-10-20 | Let’s write a simple Kernel (2014)Latest 20+ point return | mmphosis | 350 | 50 |