Hackernews posts about xv6

xv6 is a simple Unix-like teaching operating system designed to be easy to understand and implement, used as a pedagogical tool for learning computer systems and operating system design principles.

1. Minimal x86 Kernel Zig (github.com)
   154 points by lopespm 3 days ago | 64 comments
2. How many registers does an x86-64 CPU have? (2020) (blog.yossarian.net)
   115 points by tosh 7 days ago | 95 comments
3. GNU Hurd Is "Almost There" with x86_64, SMP and ~75% of Debian Packages Building (www.phoronix.com)
   57 points by sergiogdr 20 days ago | 23 comments
4. V now has SSA, SSA => x64/ARM64 back ends, a linker built in V and a code signer (twitter.com)
   9 points by fork-bomber 25 days ago | 4 comments
5. Show HN: An x86 assembly game from 2002, ported to WebAssembly with Claude Code (particlefield.com)
   6 points by gottebp 6 days ago | 2 comments
6. Skeeto/w64devkit: Portable C and C++ Development Kit for x64 (and x86) Windows (github.com)
   4 points by Tomte 6 days ago | discuss
7. The curious case of binfmt for x86 emulation for ARM Docker (gergely.imreh.net)
   4 points by pvtmert 9 days ago | discuss
8. Show HN: PowerBasilisk: Open x64 PowerBASIC in Rust generates LLVM (github.com)
   3 points by benstopics 3 days ago | 5 comments
9. UIUC 2002 – we wrote a space shooter in x86 asm. In 2026 Claude resurrected it (github.com)
   3 points by gottebp 6 days ago | 1 comments
10. Show HN: Nos – a hobby x86-64 C++ OS kernel running on real KVM clouds (github.com)
    3 points by irqlevel 4 days ago | discuss
11. Breaking architecture barriers: Running x86 games on ARM [video] (fosdem.org)
    3 points by wicket 19 days ago | discuss
12. OpenVMS 9.2-3 x64 now has local console on OPA0 (virtuallyfun.com)
    3 points by jandeboevrie 21 days ago | discuss
13. Show HN: Evolved x86 AVX-512 kernels for NF4 LLM inference (github.com)
    2 points by Anuar81 5 days ago | discuss
14. KVM: x86/PVM: Introduce a new hypervisor (2024) (lwn.net)
    2 points by indigodaddy 12 days ago | discuss
15. Evolution of the x86 context switch in Linux (2018) (www.maizure.org)
    2 points by turrini 18 days ago | discuss
16. Show HN: A header-only C++20 compile-time assembler for x86/x64 instructions (github.com)
    2 points by mahmoudimus 24 days ago | discuss
17. Show HN: I vibecoded an X64, ARM64 operating system that boots on real hardware (github.com)
    2 points by xdpi542 25 days ago | discuss
18. mcelog: Logs and accounts machine checks on modern x86 Linux systems (www.mcelog.org)
    2 points by teleforce 25 days ago | discuss
19. Show HN: VC Screener – Evaluate YC X26 apps against prev YC companies (vcscreener.org)
    1 points by bG9sY2F0 12 days ago | 3 comments
20. Show HN: AI-optimized x86-64 assembly vs. GCC -O3 on three production kernels (github.com)
    1 points by cod-e 6 days ago | 1 comments
21. Heydawy DNS Changer v1 x64 (github.com)
    1 points by HeyDawy 4 days ago | discuss
22. Tarot: XVII the Star: Quantum Computing (www.suzannetreister.net)
    1 points by isomorph 12 days ago | discuss
23. Show HN: C discrete event SIM w stackful coroutines runs 45x faster than SimPy (github.com)
    69 points by ambonvik 18 days ago | 18 comments
24. Show HN: Copy-and-patch compiler for hard real-time Python (github.com)
    65 points by Saloc 10 days ago | 11 comments
25. G Lang – A lightweight interpreter written in D (2.4MB)
    35 points by pouyathe 22 days ago | 18 comments
26. Show HN: I made a dual-bootable NixBSD (NixOS and FreeBSD) image (github.com)
    9 points by jonhermansen 23 days ago | 2 comments
27. Show HN: Axiom – C++ tensor library with NumPy API and Metal GPU support
    5 points by noahkay13 19 days ago | discuss
28. Show HN: TempleOS Playground (ring0.holyc.xyz)
    5 points by AlecMurphy 28 days ago | discuss
29. Show HN: Reclaimr – An offline crossplatform desktop app for cleaning dev caches (reclaimr.dev)
    3 points by deevus 8 days ago | 3 comments
30. Show HN: Glance – Fast CSV inspection for the terminal (SIMD-accelerated) (github.com)
    3 points by AveryClapp 13 days ago | discuss