First steps in bare-metal programming using UEFI
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- 208
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- LaSombra
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- Nov 6, 2026
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- kevinboone.me
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Trending history
First steps in bare-metal programming using UEFI was first seen on Hacker News · Front page on Nov 6, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 96 checks on 2 different days. Its best position was #6 of 30, reached on Nov 6, 20:22 UTC. It dropped off the list after Nov 7, 16:39 UTC. The same link also trended on Lobsters, which raises its cross-platform score.
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| List | Best | Days | Checks | Last seen |
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| Hacker News · Front page | #6 | 2 | 96 | |
| LLobsters · Hottest Kevin Boone: Firststeps in bare-metal programming using UEFI –… | same link | |||
From the discussion
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For "Get used to the lack of a C standard library" mentioned in https://kevinboone.me/efitest4.html there's always https://github.com/tianocore/edk2-libc. And on "Be aware of the Windows-ness of EFI" commentary the resemblance to Windows coding style https://computernewb.com/~lily/files/Documents/NTDesignWorkb... is…
> The linker won’t complain if your code calls functions that don’t exist – it will just mark them as external, expecting them to be provided by some other code. But they won’t be, and the program will just crash when it calls one of these missing functions. You can verify no external symbols remain after linkage…
Rod Smith and the OSDev Wiki went here, sometimes word for word, years before: * https://rodsbooks.com/efi-programming/ * https://wiki.osdev.org/GNU-EFI Of course, they both assume GCC on Linux. Change either one of those, and it is a wholly different kettle of fish. Both NetBSD and FreeBSD, for examples, come with…
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Is First steps in bare-metal programming using UEFI trending on Hacker News right now?
Not at the moment. It was last on the list on Nov 7, 16:39 UTC, after 2 days of trending.
What is the highest rank First steps in bare-metal programming using UEFI reached?
#6 on Hacker News · Front page, on Nov 6, 20:22 UTC. Trendoday checks this list every 15 minutes.
How long has First steps in bare-metal programming using UEFI been trending?
It was first seen on Nov 6, 2026 and has been on the list on 2 days (96 checks) since.
How much discussion did it get on Hacker News?
208 points and 38 comments; submitted by LaSombra on Nov 6, 2026.