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Desktop CPU shipments crater 20% amid high component costs, but AMD gains record share despite 'ugly' desktop processor market — Intel floods laptop market with millions of CPUs, but AMD still sets all-time share records (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-22 | by Anton Shilov | tags: amd, intel, x86

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AMD now ships more than 30% of x86 PC CPUs as Intel's long-held lead keeps shrinking (techspot.com)

2026-08-21 | by Rob Thubron | tags: amd, intel, x86

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Autolith: A programming agent with a live runtime (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-20 | tags: autolith, linux x86-64, sbcl

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How do functions like alloca allocate memory from the stack? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-17 | by Raymond Chen | tags: alloca, _chkstk, x86-64

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Sectorforth is a 16-bit x86 Forth that fits in a 512-byte boot sector (2020) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-16 | tags: sectorforth, x86, boot sector

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The PC age began 45 years ago with the breakthrough Intel 8088 processor — 8-bit bus fueled 45 years of x86 dominance (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-16 | by Mark Tyson | tags: intel 8088, ibm pc 5150, x86 architecture

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Nvidia's $5 billion Intel bet is now worth nearly $25 billion, and its SpaceX stake isn't far behind (techspot.com)

2026-08-16 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: nvidia, intel, spacex

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Happy 45th Birthday to the IBM PC and Model F/XT (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-12 | by Kali | tags: ibm pc, model f/xt, x86 architecture

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Exploiting System Management Mode with a very long interrupt (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: smm, amd, x86

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The Art of 64-bit Assembly (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-01 | tags: masm, x86, windows

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Ten Ways NAS Is Getting Enshitified (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-01 | tags: nas, x86 processors, intel n100

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Intel is giving a startup the keys to its x86 (Atom) CPU kingdom (techspot.com)

2026-07-31 | by Alfonso Maruccia | tags: intel, atom, rosaiclabs

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Intel licenses Atom-class x86 cores to startup — firm reportedly sharing RTL, enabling customer to build its own custom processors based on x86 general-purpose cores (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-30 | by Anton Shilov | tags: intel, atom processor, rosaiclabs

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Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-28 | tags: sbcl, slime, arm64

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AttoChess, a complete, playable chess program for 16-bit x86 DOS in 278 bytes (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-16 | tags: chess, attochess, dos

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Die analysis of the 8087 math coprocessor's fast bit shifter (2020) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-22 | get Intel 8087 Math Coprocessor → | tags: 8087, math coprocessor, bit shifter

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Die analysis of the 8087 math coprocessor's fast bit shifter (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-22 | get Intel 8087 Math Coprocessor → | tags: 8087, math coprocessor, bit shifter

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Intel and AMD are teaming up to make x86 CPUs better at AI, without needing a GPU (techspot.com)

2026-06-22 | by Skye Jacobs | get Intel AI Accelerator Card → | tags: intel, amd, x86

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Intel and AMD unveil new x86 standard to make CPUs better at running AI models (techspot.com)

2026-06-22 | by Skye Jacobs | get Intel Core i9 Processor → | tags: intel, amd, x86

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AI Compute Extensions (ACE) Specification (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-18 | get AI Compute Extensions (ACE) Kit → | tags: ace, avx, x86

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[x86] AI Compute Extensions (ACE) Specification (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-18 | get Intel Xeon Scalable Processor → | tags: x86, ace, avx

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This handheld x86 mini-computer is heading to Kickstarter with swappable accessories and 4G LTE (techspot.com)

2026-06-17 | by Alfonso Maruccia | get Raspberry Pi 4 Kit → | tags: mogozen, cg deck, intel n150

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The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-16 | by Raymond Chen | get x86 Emulator Debugging Kit → | tags: x86-32, binary translation, windows

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Dwarf Fortress in the Browser (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-15 | get Dwarf Fortress Official Guide → | tags: dwarf fortress, novnc, docker

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Tribblix: The retro Illumos distribution (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-14 | get Illumos Retro Computing Kit → | tags: illumos, tribblix, sparc

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Capstone – multi-platform, multi-architecture disassembly framework (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-03 | get Radare2 Disassembly Framework → | tags: capstone, disassembly framework, arm

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A new register allocator for ZJIT (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-27 | by Aaron Patterson | tags: zjit, register allocator, christian wimmer

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What it takes to transpose a matrix (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-24 | get Matrix Transpose Tool → | tags: x86_64, simd, mmx

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

2026-05-24 | get Smart Wake-Up Light Alarm → | 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