GoKawiil - Tech News

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Wake up! 16b (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-24 | tags: x86 assembly, algorithmic density, rainbow surf

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WriteUp: 16 Bytes of x86 that turn Matrix rain into sound (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-17 | get USB MIDI Controller → | tags: x86 assembly, demoscene, vga text mode

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AMD keeps gaining on Intel in servers, but desktop PCs tell a different story (techspot.com)

2026-05-15 | get AMD Ryzen Desktop Processor → | tags: amd, intel, epyc

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Understanding the Linux Kernel: The Linux Kernel Startup (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-14 | by Jesús Espino | get Linux Kernel T-Shirt → | tags: linux kernel, boot process, x86_64

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AMD reaches 46% of server x86 CPU revenue — Intel still controls 70% of the consumer PC market share (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-14 | by Anton Shilov | get AMD Ryzen 9 Processor → | tags: amd, intel, mercury research

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AMD's legendary K5, its first independently-designed processor, is being removed from the Linux kernel — 4.3-million-transistor chip gets the axe because it lacks Time Stamp Counter (TSC) support, making it a coding burden (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-10 | by Mark Tyson | tags: amd, linux kernel, tsc

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Apple reportedly strikes deal for Intel to make some of its chips — two tech giants reached a preliminary agreement for Intel to make processors for Cupertino (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-08 | by Jowi Morales | get Intel Processor Compatibility Kit → | tags: apple, intel, tsmc

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WASM is not quite a stack machine (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-28 | get WebAssembly Developer Book → | tags: wasm, stack machine, x86 assembly

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XOR'ing a register with itself is the idiom for zeroing it out. Why not sub? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-22 | by Raymond Chen | get Bitwise Subtract Zero Keychain → | tags: x86, compiler explorer, xor instruction

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Kefir C17/C23 Compiler (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-17 | get Kefir C17 Compiler Book → | tags: kefir compiler, c17 standard, c23 standard

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Writing string.h functions using string instructions in asm x86-64 (2025) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-17 | get x86-64 Assembly String Instruction Kit → | tags: string.h, x86-64, memcpy

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Writing string.h functions using string instructions in asm x86-64 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-17 | get x86-64 Assembly String Instructions → | tags: string.h, x86-64, memcpy

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Investigating Split Locks on x86-64 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-08 | by Chester Lam | get Intel 12th Gen Core i7 → | tags: x86-64, split locks, intel

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Linux kernel maintainers are following through on removing Intel 486 support (arstechnica.com)

2026-04-07 | get Intel 486 Processor Upgrade → | tags: linux kernel, intel 486, linus torvalds

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Show HN: A (marginally) useful x86-64 ELF executable in 301 bytes (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-06 | get Tiny ELF Executable Kit → | tags: x86-64, elf executable, linux

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Linux Finally Starts Removing Support for Intel's 37-Year-Old i486 Processor (slashdot.org)

2026-04-06 | by Posted | get Intel i486 Processor Emulator → | tags: linux, intel, linux kernel

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The Evolution of x86 SIMD: From SSE to AVX-512 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-04 | by Burak Güngör | get Intel AVX-512 Processor → | tags: x86 simd, sse, avx-512

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Show HN: Anos – a hand-written ~100KiB microkernel for x86-64 and RISC-V (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-04 | get Minimalist Microkernel Kit → | tags: microkernel, anos, risc-v

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Big-Endian Testing with QEMU (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-03 | get QEMU Emulator for Testing → | tags: qemu, big-endian, gcc

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AMD says it will buy Intel, completing the strangest reversal in chip history (techspot.com)

2026-04-01 | tags: amd, intel, x86

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Apple’s Mac OS X turns 25, has prospered across three hardware architecture changes — from PowerPC, through Intel x86, to Apple Silicon (tomshardware.com)

2026-03-28 | by Mark Tyson | get Apple Silicon MacBook → | tags: mac os x, apple silicon, powerpc

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Intel’s Binary Optimization Tool tested and explained — how the iBOT translation delivers up to 18% faster gaming performance, 8% on average (tomshardware.com)

2026-03-26 | by Jake Roach | get Intel Optimization Software Suite → | tags: intel, ibot, core ultra

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Intel released its first Pentium chip on this day 33 years ago, came packing 3.1 million transistors — fifth-gen x86 chip built on an 800nm process (tomshardware.com)

2026-03-22 | by Mark Tyson | get Intel Pentium Processor → | tags: pentium, intel, x86

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An x86-64 back end for raven-uxn (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-15 | tags: raven-uxn, x86-64, arm64

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Show HN: Fatal Core Dump – A debugging murder mystery played with GDB (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-14 | tags: gdb, core dump, apate

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Show HN: Fatal Core Dump – a debugging murder mystery played with GDB (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-14 | tags: gdb, core dump, apate

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Show HN: Aurion OS – A 32-bit GUI operating system written from scratch in C (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-12 | get Aurion OS → | tags: x86, qemu, nasm

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Another Linux distro has dropped KDE Plasma, and I'm not surprised to see why (zdnet.com)

2026-03-11 | by Jack Wallen | get Linux distro → | tags: kde plasma, kaos linux, niri desktop

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When KaOS Linux dropped KDE Plasma, I worried - now I'm loving the new default desktop (zdnet.com)

2026-03-11 | by Jack Wallen | get KDE Plasma → | tags: kde plasma, kaos linux, niri

30.

Never Bet Against x86 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-06 | get Intel Core → | tags: x86, arm, core design