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The adder at the heart of Intel's 8087 floating-point chip (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-13 | get Intel 8087 Floating Point Coprocessor → | tags: intel, 8087, floating-point

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Samsung Heavy Industries recruits Greek shipowner and Supermicro to bring 50MW floating AI data centers to market — can be powered by solid oxide fuel cells running on liquefied natural gas (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-10 | by Luke James | get Supermicro Server Motherboard → | tags: floating, heavy, lloyd

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This new Chrome shortcut could be the fastest way to use Google search yet (androidauthority.com)

2026-06-04 | get Chrome Keyboard Shortcut Guide → | tags: chrome, google search, chrome canary

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Microcode inside the Intel 8087 floating-point chip: register exchange (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-30 | get Intel 8087 Floating-Point Unit → | tags: intel 8087, microcode, floating-point

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Floor and Ceil versus Denormals on CPU and GPU (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-26 | tags: floating-point, denormals, c++

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Peter Thiel Working on Floating Data Centers in the Ocean (futurism.com)

2026-05-23 | by Joe Wilkins | get Floating Data Center Kit → | tags: peter thiel, floating data centers, panthalassa

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RISC-V and Floating-Point (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-18 | get RISC-V Floating-Point Emulator → | tags: risc-v, floating-point, ieee-754

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RISC-V and Floating Point (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-18 | get RISC-V Floating Point Emulator → | tags: risc-v, ieee-754, floating-point

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Schanuel's Conjecture and the Semantics of Triton's FPSan (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-16 | by Posted On | tags: schanuel's conjecture, triton compiler, fpsan tool

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Silicon Valley bets $200M on AI data centers floating in the ocean (arstechnica.com)

2026-05-05 | get Floating Data Center Kit → | tags: palantir, ai data centers, ocean floating nodes

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The Secret Life of NaN (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-26 | get NaN Debugging Tool → | tags: ieee 754, nan, floating point

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Exposing Floating Point – Bartosz Ciechanowski (2019) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-26 | by Bartosz Ciechanowski | get Floating Point Debugging Tool → | tags: ieee 754, floating point, binary32

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4-bit floating point FP4 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-18 | by John Cook | get FP4 Floating Point Emulator → | tags: fp4, floating point, neural networks

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It's OK to compare floating-points for equality (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-14 | get Floating-Point Comparison Guide → | tags: floating-point, epsilon-comparison, ieee 754

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Mark's Magic Multiply (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-11 | get Magic Multiplication Puzzle Game → | tags: floating-point multiplication, embedded processors, ieee 754

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Floating point from scratch: Hard Mode (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-04 | by Julia Desmazes | get Floating Point Number Kit → | tags: floating point, computer architecture, hardware

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Hitachi and MOL plan to turn retired ships into floating data centers (techspot.com)

2026-04-02 | get Floating Data Center Kit → | tags: hitachi, mol, floating data centers

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Chinese University Announces 30-Story “Artificial Island” for Marine Research Purposes (futurism.com)

2026-04-02 | by Joe Wilkins | get Marine Research Dock → | tags: deep-sea research platform, open-sea floating island, shanghai jiao tong university

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Herbie: Automatically improve imprecise floating point formulas (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-31 | get Floating Point Error Corrector → | tags: herbie, floating point, accuracy

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Learn Something Old Every Day, Part XVIII: How Does FPU Detection Work? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-28 | by Posted On | get FPU Detection Tool → | tags: fpu detection, intel 8086, 286 cpu

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6 ways I’m already using Android 17’s app bubbles to multitask better (androidauthority.com)

2026-03-27 | get Android 17 App Bubbles Kit → | tags: android 17, app bubbles, floating window

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Quantization from the Ground Up (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-25 | by Sam Rose | get Deep Learning Quantization Kit → | tags: ngrok, qwen-3-coder-next, large language models

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Google Keep’s latest test ruins its airy interface (androidauthority.com)

2026-03-25 | get Google Keep Silicone Case → | tags: google keep, material 3, floating action button

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Converting Binary Floating-Point Numbers to Shortest Decimal Strings (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-07 | get Binary-to-Decimal Converter → | tags: rust, binary floating-point, shortest decimal

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The Google Photos redesign we’ve been waiting for is finally here (androidauthority.com)

2026-02-13 | get Google Photos app → | tags: android, authority, floating

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Exploring Speculative JIT Compilation for Emacs Lisp with Java (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-19 | get Compiler → | tags: fast, fast path, floating

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The Floating Head Phenomenon (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-11-10 | by Michael Estrin | get Smartphone → | tags: face, floating, head

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XiangShan Vector Floating-Point Unit Design (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get How to Win Friends book → | tags: bit, floating, fp

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Coding a new BASIC interpreter in 2025 to replace a slow one (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | by Óscar Toledo Gutiérrez | get Meta Quest → | tags: basic, ecs, floating

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Myths About Floating-Point Numbers (2021) (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get Emotional Intelligence book → | tags: different, floating, numbers