Yocto, RockPi and SBOMs: Building modern embedded Linux images(vpetersson.com)

137 points by mvip 1 year ago | 91 comments

Making a game on a custom bytecode VM in 7 days and 3kB(laurent.le-brun.eu)

71 points by laurentlb 10 months ago | 11 comments

Undocumented 8086 instructions, explained by the microcode(righto.com)

220 points by kens 3 years ago | 75 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.

The microcode and hardware in the 8086 processor that perform string operations(righto.com)

155 points by picture 3 years ago | 94 comments

Prefix sums at gigabytes per second with ARM NEON(lemire.me)

55 points by mfiguiere 7 months ago | 8 comments

FPGA N64(ultrafp64.com)

374 points by AndrewDucker 3 years ago | 74 comments

Homepage of ULTRA FP64, a project billed as the world's first FPGA implementation of the Nintendo 64, showing a dev board running an N64 cartridge.

Porting SBCL to the Nintendo Switch(reader.tymoon.eu)

396 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 72 comments

A blog post describing the two-year effort to port the SBCL Common Lisp runtime to the Nintendo Switch so the Trial game engine can run on it.

VVVVVV Source Code(github.com)

385 points by radeeyate 1 year ago | 72 comments

GitHub repository by Terry Cavanagh hosting the source code of the indie platformer game VVVVVV, with desktop and mobile versions.

My first contribution to Linux(vkoskiv.com)

633 points by vkoskiv 1 year ago | 76 comments

A blog post recounting the author's experience upstreaming their first Linux kernel patch, fixing a hardware issue on a 2005 Fujitsu Lifebook S2110.

I built a programming language that LLMs can't use(blog.picheta.me)

244 points by dom96 8 days ago | 179 comments

Blog post by Dominik Picheta introducing KillSwitch, a programming language he designed so that large language models cannot use it.

I built a Game Boy emulator in F#(nickkossolapov.github.io)

328 points by elvis70 5 months ago | 74 comments

Blog post by Nick Kossolapov describing how he built Fame Boy, a Game Boy emulator in F# with sound that runs on desktop and web.