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01 / EXPLORE THROUGH TIME

Timeline

Start with the latest. Scroll back through time, or zoom in for more.

Year by yearUp to 5 stories per year
20261,342 stories
A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better”↗ rvembedded.com · HN · 333 comments · 625 points · Aug 16, 2026
Everyone should know SIMD↗ mitchellh.com · HN · 254 comments · 672 points · Jul 22, 2026
MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second↗ mimo.xiaomi.com · HN · 489 comments · 628 points · Jun 08, 2026
Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler↗ grapheneos.social · HN · 755 comments · 2186 points · May 10, 2026
Making RAM at Home [video]↗ youtube.com · HN · 180 comments · 627 points · Apr 20, 2026
20251,200 stories
Why xor eax, eax?↗ xania.org · HN · 215 comments · 576 points · Dec 01, 2025
Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver↗ dmitrybrant.com · HN · 318 comments · 929 points · Sep 07, 2025
We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own↗ hugotunius.se · HN · 1202 comments · 2071 points · Aug 31, 2025
Show HN: I built a hardware processor that runs Python↗ runpyxl.com · HN · 265 comments · 983 points · Apr 28, 2025
Run DeepSeek R1 Dynamic 1.58-bit↗ unsloth.ai · HN · 332 comments · 767 points · Jan 28, 2025
20241,265 stories
A good day to trie-hard: saving compute 1% at a time↗ blog.cloudflare.com · HN · 173 comments · 614 points · Sep 10, 2024
Extreme Pi Boot Optimization↗ kittenlabs.de · HN · 153 comments · 558 points · Sep 01, 2024
LLaMA now goes faster on CPUs↗ justine.lol · HN · 451 comments · 1372 points · Apr 01, 2024
The Era of 1-bit LLMs: ternary parameters for cost-effective computing↗ arxiv.org · HN · 447 comments · 1040 points · Feb 28, 2024
Groq runs Mixtral 8x7B-32k with 500 T/s↗ groq.com · HN · 472 comments · 847 points · Feb 19, 2024
20231,295 stories
Interesting double-poly latches inside AMD's vintage LANCE Ethernet chip↗ righto.com · HN · 17 comments · 148 points · Dec 31, 2023
TKey is a RISC-V computer in a USB-C case, that can run security applications↗ dev.tillitis.se · HN · 78 comments · 204 points · Dec 25, 2023
x86-64 Assembly Language Programming with Ubuntu (2022)↗ egr.unlv.edu · HN · 55 comments · 212 points · Dec 24, 2023
Major Changes at RISC-V Designer SiFive↗ morethanmoore.substack.com · HN · 10 comments · 58 points · Oct 24, 2023
QEMU 8.0.0 – A generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer↗ qemu.org · HN · 9 comments · 65 points · Apr 24, 2023
20221,034 stories
Zen4's AVX512 Teardown↗ mersenneforum.org · HN · 97 comments · 415 points · Sep 26, 2022
What does an idle CPU do? (2014)↗ manybutfinite.com · HN · 101 comments · 326 points · Jun 26, 2022
Framework Laptop Mainboard↗ github.com · HN · 250 comments · 1019 points · Apr 19, 2022
Algorithms for Modern Hardware↗ en.algorithmica.org · HN · 62 comments · 344 points · Mar 07, 2022
RISC-V is succeeding↗ semiengineering.com · HN · 299 comments · 413 points · Mar 01, 2022
20211,096 stories
Blacksmith – Rowhammer bit flips on all DRAM devices today despite mitigations↗ comsec.ethz.ch · HN · 309 comments · 662 points · Nov 15, 2021
How to make a CPU – a simple picture-based explanation↗ blog.robertelder.org · HN · 169 comments · 605 points · Nov 10, 2021
Rethinking Triplebyte↗ triplebyte.com · HN · 448 comments · 429 points · Jun 17, 2021
Two Hidden Instructions Discovered in Intel CPUs Enable Microcode Modification↗ infoq.com · HN · 121 comments · 449 points · Jun 07, 2021
Undocumented x86 instructions in Intel CPUs that can modify microcode↗ twitter.com · HN · 134 comments · 443 points · Mar 20, 2021
20201,120 stories
A preview of x64 emulation on Windows for ARM↗ blogs.windows.com · HN · 396 comments · 366 points · Dec 11, 2020
I'm building a Minecraft clone in hardware, on a tiny FPGA with 143kb of RAM↗ twitter.com · HN · 50 comments · 369 points · Nov 21, 2020
ARM chips have an instruction with JavaScript in the name↗ stackoverflow.com · HN · 299 comments · 406 points · Oct 17, 2020
Getting started with bare-metal assembly↗ johv.dk · HN · 181 comments · 422 points · Mar 25, 2020
Hobby x86 kernel written with Zig↗ github.com · HN · 223 comments · 355 points · Jan 06, 2020
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02 / CATCH UP

The conversation now

Popular stories, with attention fading over roughly two weeks.

Fearless SIMD v1.0↗ linebender.org · HN · 52 comments · 316 points · Sep 22, 2026
The scourge of x86 emulation↗ fex-emu.com · HN · 100 comments · 295 points · Sep 18, 2026
Boards of Casio↗ ambionix.com · HN · 47 comments · 135 points · Sep 25, 2026
Reverse-engineering the Intel 8087's tangent algorithm: more than CORDIC↗ righto.com · HN · 11 comments · 120 points · Sep 26, 2026
The Lost Atomic Update on Loongson CPU↗ jia.je · HN · 7 comments · 130 points · Sep 24, 2026

03 / GO DEEPER

Follow your curiosity

Find a particular story, revisit a year, or see what resonated.

Highest rated · the last 30 days

Fearless SIMD v1.0↗ linebender.org · HN · 52 comments · 316 points · Sep 22, 2026
The scourge of x86 emulation↗ fex-emu.com · HN · 100 comments · 295 points · Sep 18, 2026
Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2?↗ devblogs.microsoft.com · HN · 66 comments · 266 points · Sep 13, 2026
Dropping eBPF CPU Cost by About 90% with Memoization (Not AI Gen)↗ nathannaveen.dev · HN · 29 comments · 155 points · Sep 14, 2026
Decoding the NEC V20 Microcode↗ martypc.blogspot.com · HN · 10 comments · 150 points · Sep 04, 2026
Boards of Casio↗ ambionix.com · HN · 47 comments · 135 points · Sep 25, 2026
Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction↗ righto.com · HN · 53 comments · 131 points · Sep 12, 2026
The Lost Atomic Update on Loongson CPU↗ jia.je · HN · 7 comments · 130 points · Sep 24, 2026
Reverse-engineering the Intel 8087's tangent algorithm: more than CORDIC↗ righto.com · HN · 11 comments · 120 points · Sep 26, 2026
WebFPGA (2019)↗ webfpga.io · HN · 36 comments · 112 points · Sep 02, 2026

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