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Interviewing IBM's Christian Zoellin and Christian Jacobi (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-31 | by George Cozma | get Raspberry Pi 5 8GB board → | tags: ibm z18, arm instruction set, itanium

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Is Your AI Assistant More Frustrating Than Helpful? Here’s How to Make It Truly Useful. (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-28 | by Jason Barnard | get Co-Intelligence Ethan Mollick book → | tags: chatgpt, openai, google bard

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IBM’s next-gen mainframe chip is the first to run Arm and Z workloads on the same cores (venturebeat.com)

2026-08-24 | tags: ibm z mainframe, arm instruction set, linuxone systems

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Hardware researcher spins up 'CPU deoptimization' project to find the slowest single x86 instruction, creates hall of shame — worst offender takes 198 billion cycles spanning 62 seconds to execute (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-08 | by Jake Roach | tags: cycles, domas, hardware

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Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: backdoor, core, embedded

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Everyone should know SIMD (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-22 | tags: simd, zig, cpu

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Everyone Should Know SIMD (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-22 | tags: simd, cpu, zig

8.

Value Numbering (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-08 | by Max Bernstein | get Numbered Tech Notebook → | tags: block, blocks, dominator

9.

How much do amd64 microarchitecture levels help in Go? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-07 | by Https | tags: bits, compiler, container

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Nvidia offers restricted access to Vera CPU in first round of Linux benchmarks - 88-core monster competes with or beats Epyc and Xeon in selected tests (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-27 | by Zak Killian | get Nvidia Vera CPU Kit → | tags: nvidia vera, amd epyc, intel xeon

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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

12.

What is RISC-V and why it matters to Canonical (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-08 | get RISC-V Development Board → | tags: risc-v, canonical, open standard

13.

Switzerland hosts 'CERN of semiconductor research' (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-03 | by Matthew Allen | get Semiconductor Research Kit → | tags: cern, swiss federal institutes of technology, semiconductor research

14.

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

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

15.

BarraCUDA Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-17 | get BarraCUDA → | tags: barracuda, code, cuda

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Visualizing the ARM64 Instruction Set (2024) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-15 | get ARM64 Instruction Set → | tags: instruction, instructions, pixel

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Arm's Cortex A725 Ft. Dell's Pro Max with GB10 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-27 | by Chester Lam | get Cortex A725 → | tags: clock, core, cores

18.

Compiling models to megakernels (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-25 | get Neural Disk → | tags: instruction, instructions, kernel

19.

A glimpse into V8 development for RISC-V (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-07 | get RISC-V CPU → | tags: instruction, instructions, jump

20.

Illuminating the processor core with LLVM-mca (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-14 | get LLVM-mca → | tags: cycles, instruction, instructions

21.

Pop Goes the Population Count? (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-11 | get Population Count → | tags: bits, compiler, count

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'Colleges Oversold Education. Now They Must Sell Connection' (slashdot.org)

2025-12-09 | by Posted | get Education Platform → | tags: active, anicich, human

23.

You can't fool the optimizer (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-03 | get Machine Learning → | tags: code, compiler, instruction

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You Can't Fool the Optimizer (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-03 | get Neural Network → | tags: code, compiler, instruction

25.

Addressing the adding situation (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-02 | get Smartphone → | tags: address, addressing, instruction

26.

Building a Minimal Viable Armv7 Emulator from Scratch (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-11-21 | get Virtual Machine → | tags: header, instruction, rust

27.

The state of SIMD in Rust in 2025 (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-11-05 | by Sergey | get Vectorization → | tags: crate, instruction, intrinsics

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Fungus: The Befunge CPU(2015) (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get Raspberry Pi 4 Model B → | tags: fungus, instruction, modes

29.

Encoding x86 Instructions (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get Emotional Intelligence book → | tags: bit, byte, instruction

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Easy RISC-V (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get Google Nest Hub → | tags: a0, addi, instruction