First screen, captured .
350 points by defrost | 60 comments
Ken Shirriff's blog post about Diné (Navajo) weaver Marilou Schultz's rug depicting the internal circuitry of the 555 timer chip and how it was made.
362 points by gslin | 110 comments
Ken Shirriff's blog post examining the Pentium die to show where the 1994 floating-point division bug lies in the silicon and why it occurred.
350 points by defrost | 60 comments
Ken Shirriff's blog post about Diné (Navajo) weaver Marilou Schultz's rug depicting the internal circuitry of the 555 timer chip and how it was made.
354 points by Tomte | 138 comments
Ken Shirriff's blog post reverse-engineering the Pentium's ×3 multiplier circuit, used in its base-8 floating-point multiplication, and explaining how it works.
362 points by gslin | 110 comments
Ken Shirriff's blog post examining the Pentium die to show where the 1994 floating-point division bug lies in the silicon and why it occurred.
546 points by fagnerbrack | 213 comments
A blog post arguing that many so-called abstractions in codebases are merely layers of indirection that add complexity and hurt performance without real value.
388 points by mattjhall | 202 comments
A personal blog post giving the author's opinion on the Niri scrollable tiling Wayland compositor after years of using Sway and i3.
102 points by pwg | 33 comments
Ken Shirriff blog post examining the Intel 8087 coprocessor's microcode and circuitry for floating-point addition and subtraction, including special cases.