Interest
Proportion of Hacker News items mentioning "firmware" over time.
Mentions
Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "firmware" over time.
In computing, firmware (FW) is software that provides low-level control of computer hardware. For a relatively simple device, firmware may perform all control, monitoring and data manipulation functionality. For a more complex device, firmware may provide only relatively low-level control as well as hardware abstraction to higher-level software such as an operating system. Read more on Wikipedia