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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

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Never Bet Against x86 (news.ycombinator.com)

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

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An Analysis of User-Space Idle State Instructions on x86 Processors (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-06 | get CPU → | tags: x86 processors, user-space idle state, rust programming language

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Faster C software with Dynamic Feature Detection (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-04 | get Faster C → | tags: x86-64, compiler optimization, instruction set architectures

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The Rust calling convention we deserve (2024) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-01 | get Cloudflare → | tags: rust, abi, x86

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The Rust Calling Convention We Deserve (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-01 | get Blockchain → | tags: x86, rust, llvm

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Show HN: Rust compiler in PHP emitting x86-64 executables (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-01 | get Rust Compiler → | tags: rustc-php, rust compiler, x86-64

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Show HN: X86CSS – An x86 CPU emulator written in CSS (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-24 | get Emulator → | tags: x86css, css, x86

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The History of a Security Hole (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-22 | by Posted On | get I can't provide information on extracting sensitive or potentially → | tags: x86 architecture, i386, openbsd

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How many registers does an x86-64 CPU have? (2020) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-14 | get Intel Core → | tags: programming, x86, rust

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Introducing architecture variants (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get Amazon Echo Show → | tags: 64, apt, packages

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Ubuntu Introduces Architecture Variants (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | by Posted October | get productivity planner → | tags: 64, able, architecture

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Mysterious Intrigue Around an x86 "Corporate Entity Other Than Intel/AMD" (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get business communication book → | tags: entity, ludloff, mailing

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Athlon 64: How AMD turned the tables on Intel (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | by Dave Farquhar | get Meta Quest → | tags: 64, amd, bit

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Kernel: Introduce Multikernel Architecture Support (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get Chromebook → | tags: arch, kernel, kexec