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Bringing Polars to .NET

https://github.com/ErrorLSC/Polars.NET
1•CurtHagenlocher•1m ago•0 comments

Adventures in Guix Packaging

https://nemin.hu/guix-packaging.html
1•todsacerdoti•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: We had 20 Claude terminals open, so we built Orcha

1•buildingwdavid•2m ago•0 comments

Your Best Thinking Is Wasted on the Wrong Decisions

https://www.iankduncan.com/engineering/2026-02-07-your-best-thinking-is-wasted-on-the-wrong-decis...
1•iand675•2m ago•0 comments

Warcraftcn/UI – UI component library inspired by classic Warcraft III aesthetics

https://www.warcraftcn.com/
1•vyrotek•3m ago•0 comments

Trump Vodka Becomes Available for Pre-Orders

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kirkogunrinde/2025/12/01/trump-vodka-becomes-available-for-pre-order...
1•stopbulying•4m ago•0 comments

Velocity of Money

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_of_money
1•gurjeet•7m ago•0 comments

Stop building automations. Start running your business

https://www.fluxtopus.com/automate-your-business
1•valboa•11m ago•1 comments

You can't QA your way to the frontier

https://www.scorecard.io/blog/you-cant-qa-your-way-to-the-frontier
1•gk1•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: PalettePoint – AI color palette generator from text or images

https://palettepoint.com
1•latentio•13m ago•0 comments

Robust and Interactable World Models in Computer Vision [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B4kkaGOozA
2•Anon84•17m ago•0 comments

Nestlé couldn't crack Japan's coffee market.Then they hired a child psychologist

https://twitter.com/BigBrainMkting/status/2019792335509541220
1•rmason•18m ago•0 comments

Notes for February 2-7

https://taoofmac.com/space/notes/2026/02/07/2000
2•rcarmo•20m ago•0 comments

Study confirms experience beats youthful enthusiasm

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/07/boomers_vs_zoomers_workplace/
2•Willingham•27m ago•0 comments

The Big Hunger by Walter J Miller, Jr. (1952)

https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/the-big-hunger
2•shervinafshar•28m ago•0 comments

The Genus Amanita

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/amanita.html
1•rolph•33m ago•0 comments

We have broken SHA-1 in practice

https://shattered.io/
9•mooreds•33m ago•2 comments

Ask HN: Was my first management job bad, or is this what management is like?

1•Buttons840•34m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How to Reduce Time Spent Crimping?

2•pinkmuffinere•36m ago•0 comments

KV Cache Transform Coding for Compact Storage in LLM Inference

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01815
1•walterbell•40m ago•0 comments

A quantitative, multimodal wearable bioelectronic device for stress assessment

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-67747-9
1•PaulHoule•42m ago•0 comments

Why Big Tech Is Throwing Cash into India in Quest for AI Supremacy

https://www.wsj.com/world/india/why-big-tech-is-throwing-cash-into-india-in-quest-for-ai-supremac...
2•saikatsg•42m ago•0 comments

How to shoot yourself in the foot – 2026 edition

https://github.com/aweussom/HowToShootYourselfInTheFoot
2•aweussom•43m ago•0 comments

Eight More Months of Agents

https://crawshaw.io/blog/eight-more-months-of-agents
4•archb•45m ago•0 comments

From Human Thought to Machine Coordination

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-digital-self/202602/from-human-thought-to-machine-coo...
1•walterbell•45m ago•0 comments

The new X API pricing must be a joke

https://developer.x.com/
1•danver0•46m ago•0 comments

Show HN: RMA Dashboard fast SAST results for monorepos (SARIF and triage)

https://rma-dashboard.bukhari-kibuka7.workers.dev/
1•bumahkib7•46m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Source code graphRAG for Java/Kotlin development based on jQAssistant

https://github.com/2015xli/jqassistant-graph-rag
1•artigent•51m ago•0 comments

Python Only Has One Real Competitor

https://mccue.dev/pages/2-6-26-python-competitor
4•dragandj•53m ago•0 comments

Tmux to Zellij (and Back)

https://www.mauriciopoppe.com/notes/tmux-to-zellij/
1•maurizzzio•54m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Ask HN: How control field division helps decrease opcode decoder complexity?

2•shivajikobardan•5mo ago
I am studying from John P Hayes COA book. I have it as the only physical book so it is what it is.

> Microinstructions formats take advantage of the fact that, at the microprogramming level, many operations can be performed in parallel. If all useful combinations of parallel microoperations were specified by a single opcode, the number of opcodes would, in most cases, be enormous. Furthermore, an opcode decoder of considerable complexity would be needed. To avoid these difficulties, it is usual to divide the microoperation specification part of a microinstruction into k disjoint control fields.

> Each control field handles a limited set of microoperations, and one of which can be performed simultaneously with the microoperations specified by the remaining control fields. A control field often specifies the control-line values for a single device such as an adder, a register, or a bus.

I do not understand how does controol field division into k disjoint fields helps?