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Joshua Stein
Personal blog · jcs.orghardwareprogramming
Joshua Stein writes joshua stein, a personal blog at jcs.org about hardware and programming. Since 2008, 122 different Hacker News readers have linked it 197 times, most often “Hellbanned from Hacker News”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-19, and you can follow it by feed.
Sometimes recommended · 6 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Joshua Stein's blog for OpenBSD hardware guides, his System 6 Mac projects and his 2012 account of being hellbanned from Hacker News.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Hellbanned from Hacker News12 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2012-06-13
- /system6c8 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2021-01-08
- OpenBSD on the Framework Laptop8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2021-08-06
- Advice for Operating a Public-Facing API (2023)8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2023-07-12
- My Fanless OpenBSD Desktop6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2021-07-20
- Cidco MailStation as a Z80 Development Platform6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2019-05-03
- OpenBSD in Stereo with Linux VFIO5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2018-11-13
- /5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-09-29
- Adding Wi-Fi to the Macintosh Portable (2023)4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2023-08-23
- OpenBSD on Laptops4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-12-04
What Hacker News says?
https://jcs.org/2021/08/06/framework > 2021-08-09: I added Tiger Lake LP support to pchgpio, enabling GPIO interrupt support for ihidev, which was needed to make the touchpad work properly in non-polling mode (and apparently not cause the EC to randomly freak out and power down the system). > 2021-08-31: Closing the laptop’s lid does not currently cause an S3 suspend due to a bug in the DSDT of the Framework Laptop…
Comment linking /2021/08/06/framework
on “MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch”Submitted iMac G4(K) as a story · 424 points
HN discussionMore likely Paul Graham being his usual self: https://jcs.org/notaweblog/2012/06/13/hellbanned_from_hacker...
Comment linking /notaweblog/2012/06/13/hellbanned_from_hacker_news/
on “Stories that Hacker News removes from the front page”Submitted Switching from 1Password to Bitwarden as a story · 298 points
HN discussionI just found https://github.com/x56/airpyrt-tools and https://jcs.org/2018/06/12/airport_ssh -- fascinating!
Comment linking /2018/06/12/airport_ssh
on “Which of these Amazon Prime purchases are real?”Submitted My Fanless OpenBSD Desktop as a story · 273 points
HN discussionhttps://jcs.org/tagged/mac
Comment linking /tagged/mac
on “A Minimum Viable Computer, or Linux for $15”Submitted OpenBSD on the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano as a story · 249 points
HN discussionCarbon, gen6, chosen after reading Joshua Stein [0]. As I understand it, OpenBSD and NVIDIA aren't a lovely pairing. 0. https://jcs.org/2019/08/14/x1c7
Comment linking /2019/08/14/x1c7
on “I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs”Submitted My Fanless OpenBSD Desktop (2021) as a story · 200 points
HN discussionhttp://m5hosting.com and http://singlehop.com are two that i'd recommend. one thing to watch out for with dedicated hosting providers is that the networks are sometimes not so great. you may get a great deal on hardware and tons of bandwidth, but if it drops packets all the time, it's not worth it. make sure they segment you off onto a vlan (see http://jcs.org/mitm for why), make sure they are well peered, make sure…
Comment linking /sip
on “The Five Stages of Hosting”Submitted Adding a USB port to the ThinkPad X1 Nano (the hard way) as a story · 195 points
HN discussionThis fella has a number of interesting videos of development on System 6 using THINK C! https://jcs.org/2022/03/05/serial
Comment linking /2022/03/05/serial
on “IDEs we had 30 years ago”Submitted Hellbanned from Hacker News as a story · 187 points
HN discussionRelated link: https://lobste.rs/about And history: https://jcs.org/notaweblog/2012/06/13/hellbanned_from_hacker...
Comment linking /notaweblog/2012/06/13/hellbanned_from_hacker_news/
on “A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors (2018)”Submitted OpenBSD on the Microsoft Surface Go 2 as a story · 183 points
HN discussionhttps://jcs.org/openbsd-laptops
Comment linking /openbsd-laptops
on “OpenBSD Innovations”Submitted C Programming on System 6 – Implementing Multi-User Chat as a story · 135 points
HN discussionIf you look at... https://plan.cat/motd points to... https://plan.cat/~jcs Login: jcs Name: Joshua stein Directory: /jcs Shell: /bin/plan.cat Last login Wed Nov 17 03:15:42 2021 UTC Mail forwarded to jcs@jcs.org. Plan: Creating an IMAP client for and on a System 6 Mac, recording videos of its development at https://jcs.org/system6c Working on a WiFi RS232 modem thing with integrated PPP and an SSL-stripping SOCKS5 p…
Comment linking /system6c
on “.plan”Submitted OpenBSD on the Huawei MateBook X as a story · 125 points
HN discussionThe author is Joshua Stein ( https://jcs.org/projects ). I couldn't find the source.
Comment linking /projects
on “.plan”Submitted C Programming on System 6 – Intro [video] as a story · 114 points
HN discussionI'm hoping more device start offering 3:2 screens now. I was interested in the surface line too but decided against it for the same reasons as you. I ordered Huawei's Matebook X pro yesterday which was the only other laptop I saw which offers a nice 3:2 display. I'm hoping everything will work out of the box (this laptop uses intel wireless unlike the marvell chip on the surface) with any recent distro. Sidenote: I'…
Comment linking /2017/07/14/matebook
on “New Dell XPS 13 developer edition now available”Submitted Counting Pullups as a story · 109 points
HN discussionhttps://jcs.org/system6c
Comment linking /system6c
on “Clarus returns home in macOS Ventura”Submitted Live Streaming a Macintosh Plus as a story · 104 points
HN discussioni've had an ecobee ( http://ecobee.com/ ) thermostat for a few years and it's little more than a way to bump the heat up while i'm lying in bed. i work from my home so i can't do much with pre-programmed schedules, and i have a dog so i can't let the place get super hot or cold if i'm gone during the day. when it first debuted, they tried to charge a monthly fee for the website (which is a key part of the product, t…
Comment linking /notaweblog/2011/08/30/an_ecobee_automation_hack/
on “Nest - The Learning Thermostat”Submitted Wallops: A modern IRC client for classic Mac OS as a story · 94 points
HN discussionHere’s also some good recommendations: https://jcs.org/2023/07/12/api
Comment linking /2023/07/12/api
on “Everything I know about good API design”Submitted Writing and running a BBS on a Macintosh Plus as a story · 94 points
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