Gallery of Processor Cache Effects (2010)(igoro.com)
42 points by porridgeraisin | 5 comments
Igor Ostrovsky's 2010 blog post demonstrating processor cache effects with code examples; the capture shows a hosting 'Resource Limit Is Reached' error.
#computer-architecture on Hacker News
10 stories tagged computer-architecture, newest first.
NAND-16: a computer built from 277,248 NAND gates(somethingbig.ai)
152 points by rossant | 90 comments
Interactive 3D web simulation of NAND-16, a 16-bit computer built entirely from 277,248 NAND gates, with zoomable gate-level view and running programs like Tetris and Snake.
RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better(dmitry.gr)
357 points by dmitrygr | 402 comments
Blog essay by Dmitry Grinberg critiquing the RISC-V instruction set architecture, covering optionality, missing features, and its instruction encoding.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: DRAM has a design flaw from 1966. I bypassed it [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/4/10/9f7f120a-80e6-43f7-a485-10f90a465f0f.jpg)
DRAM has a design flaw from 1966. I bypassed it [video](youtube.com)
371 points by surprisetalk | 132 comments
A LaurieWired YouTube video explaining a decades-old DRAM design limitation and a technique to bypass it for lower tail latency in RAM reads.
Easy RISC-V(dramforever.github.io)
367 points by todsacerdoti | 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.
Build an 8-bit computer from scratch (2016)(eater.net)
379 points by jcartw | 62 comments
Ben Eater's project page documenting how to build a programmable 8-bit computer on breadboards from simple logic gates, with videos, parts lists, and schematics.
Lynn Conway has died(en.wikipedia.org)
1600 points by kevvok | 308 comments
Wikipedia biography of Lynn Conway, American computer scientist and electrical engineer behind the Mead–Conway VLSI revolution, who died June 9, 2024.
Turing Complete is a game about computer science(turingcomplete.game)
366 points by thunderbong | 102 comments
The website for Turing Complete, a game about building a computer from logic gates, which returned a 502 Bad Gateway error when captured.
From Nand to Tetris (2017)(nand2tetris.org)
607 points by mikpanko | 167 comments
Official website of the Nand to Tetris courses and the book The Elements of Computing Systems, teaching how to build a computer from NAND gates up.
Pineapple ONE: open-source 32 bit RISC-V CPU that you can make at home(pineapple-one.github.io)
449 points by todsacerdoti | 57 comments
Project homepage for Pineapple ONE, an open-source 32-bit RISC-V CPU designed to be built at home, with links to GitHub, Twitter and Discord.