Live-migration support in FreeBSD and bhyve coming(gyptazy.com)

66 points by JohnDohnBohn 5 hours ago | 16 comments

Blog post presenting a work-in-progress RFC implementation of live VM migration for bhyve on FreeBSD 15.1, covering design, test results, and blockers to upstreaming.

Apple capped engineers at a $200 daily AI budget(stork.ai)

60 points by GloVin 4 days ago | 76 comments

A Stork AI daily newsletter issue led by a report that Apple cut some engineers' daily AI spending cap to $200, plus other AI news items.

JIT bitmap text rendering for microcontrollers(linebender.org)

102 points by dmit 5 days ago | 22 comments

Raph Levien's Linebender blog post describing a JIT technique for fast proportional bitmap text rendering on the RP2350 microcontroller in his vic-2350 project.

JIT bitmap text rendering for microcontrollers(linebender.org)

5 points by raphlinus 6 days ago | 1 comments

Raph Levien's Linebender blog post describing a JIT technique for fast proportional bitmap text rendering on the RP2350 microcontroller for his vic-2350 project.

$30M Raised to Redo the CPU(tendrils.co)

112 points by shioyama 3 days ago | 115 comments

Tendrils announces a $30M funding round led by Benchmark to build a massively parallel CPU with thousands of cores, alongside the open-source language Vine.

Unlocking any car from X brand in most of the world(shubs.io)

578 points by infosecau 5 days ago | 317 comments

The Lost Atomic Update on Loongson CPU(jia.je)

120 points by jiegec 1 month ago | 6 comments

A blog post investigating a hardware erratum on the Loongson LA664 CPU where an atomic instruction loses updates, causing an infinite loop while packaging normaliz for Debian.

Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python(vgel.me)

454 points by vgel 3 years ago | 142 comments

Blog post by vgel describing the design and architecture of a small C compiler written in about 500 lines of Python.

I'm just having fun(jyn.dev)

457 points by lemper 11 months ago | 209 comments

A blog post by jyn, a compiler engineer, arguing that programming isn't a competition and that they write about technical topics simply for fun.

The Intel 8087 chip: floating-point addition and subtraction(righto.com)

102 points by pwg 26 days ago | 33 comments

Ken Shirriff blog post examining the Intel 8087 coprocessor's microcode and circuitry for floating-point addition and subtraction, including special cases.

Easy RISC-V(dramforever.github.io)

367 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 70 comments

Easy RISC-V is an interactive tutorial on RISC-V assembly programming with an in-browser emulator, covering instructions, jumps, branches, and memory.

Using AI to reverse engineer hardware(blogs.gnome.org)

224 points by ErenayDev 29 days ago | 198 comments

Blog post by Christian F.K. Schaller, a Red Hat developer, about using AI tools to reverse engineer hardware, presumably for Linux driver development.