The History of ThinkPad: From IBM’s Bento Box to Lenovo’s AI Workstations(jdhodges.com)

94 points by zdw 5 months ago | 45 comments

Apple’s Darwin OS and XNU Kernel Deep Dive(tansanrao.com)

432 points by tansanrao 1 year ago | 144 comments

A long blog post examining the history and architecture of Apple's Darwin OS and hybrid XNU kernel, from Mach and BSD roots to macOS, iOS, and Apple Silicon.

Bringing Up DeepSeek-V4-Flash on AMD MI300X(fergusfinn.com)

107 points by kkm 4 months ago | 17 comments

Why aren't motherboards mostly USB-C by now? (2021)(philip.greenspun.com)

183 points by cute_boi 2 years ago | 398 comments

Intel's $475M error: the silicon behind the Pentium division bug(righto.com)

362 points by gslin 1 year ago | 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.

Nvidia DGX Spark: great hardware, early days for the ecosystem(simonwillison.net)

150 points by GavinAnderegg 1 year ago | 86 comments

Big data on the cheapest MacBook(duckdb.org)

360 points by bcye 7 months ago | 283 comments

DuckDB blog post benchmarking database workloads on Apple's entry-level MacBook Neo to test its suitability for big data analysis.

The MacBook Neo(daringfireball.net)

603 points by etothet 7 months ago | 947 comments

John Gruber's Daring Fireball piece on Apple's MacBook Neo, tracing how iPhone A-series chip performance foreshadowed it.

Nvidia Warp: A Python framework for high performance GPU simulation and graphics(github.com)

453 points by jarmitage 2 years ago | 125 comments

GitHub repository for NVIDIA Warp, a Python framework for writing high-performance GPU simulation and graphics code.

First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5(blog.calif.io)

438 points by quadrige 5 months ago | 122 comments

Calif blog post describing the first public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5 silicon that bypasses Memory Integrity Enforcement, built in five days.

An Update on Apple M1/M2 GPU Drivers(lwn.net)

568 points by MrBuddyCasino 2 years ago | 234 comments

LWN article covering Alyssa Rosenzweig's XDC 2024 talk on the status of the Rust-based Linux GPU driver for Apple M1/M2, including conformance and gaming support.

MacOS sometimes leaks traffic after system updates(mullvad.net)

344 points by dulvui 2 years ago | 172 comments

Mullvad blog post reporting that macOS can leak traffic outside the VPN tunnel after system updates because the firewall ignores rules until a reboot.