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The adder at the heart of Intel's 8087 floating-point chip

https://www.righto.com/2026/06/intel-8087-adder-reverse-engineered.html
31•pwg•2h ago

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kens•1h ago
Author here for your 8087 questions. I find adders and ALUs interesting because they are key to the performance of a system and every system implements them differently.
sebgan•1h ago
No immediate questions, but happy to have some great weekend reading. A quick pass through finds one of the best and clearest explainers I've seen. Thanks for this and all the materials you produce.

US bans differential privacy in Census data

https://desfontain.es/blog/banning-noise.html
429•nl•4h ago•209 comments

Treating pancreatic tumours may have revealed cancer's master switch

https://economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/06/12/treating-pancreatic-tumours-may-have-reve...
159•andsoitis•5h ago•42 comments

Every Frame Perfect

https://tonsky.me/blog/every-frame-perfect/
287•ravenical•7h ago•91 comments

GameBoy Workboy

https://tcrf.net/Workboy
15•tosh•1h ago•2 comments

Appreciating Exif

https://brentfitzgerald.com/posts/appreciating-exif/
69•burnto•3d ago•11 comments

The experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt

https://lr0.org/blog/p/arabic/
104•bookofjoe•6h ago•20 comments

The adder at the heart of Intel's 8087 floating-point chip

https://www.righto.com/2026/06/intel-8087-adder-reverse-engineered.html
31•pwg•2h ago•2 comments

A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones

https://research.google/blog/a-low-carbon-computing-platform-from-your-retired-phones/
185•vikas-sharma•9h ago•96 comments

AI Coding at Home Without Going Broke

https://stephen.bochinski.dev/blog/2026/06/13/ai-coding-at-home-without-going-broke/
91•sbochins•2h ago•87 comments

GLM 5.2 Is Out

https://digg.com/tech/ii9xibgn
108•aloknnikhil•2h ago•41 comments

Electric motors with no rare earths

https://www.renaultgroup.com/en/magazine/energy-and-powertrains/all-about-electric-motors-with-no...
663•bestouff•20h ago•191 comments

Show HN: I am building a map of people who lived in the Roman Empire

https://new.roman-names.com/
97•metiscus•2d ago•17 comments

RTX 5080 and RTX 3090 Setup: 80 Tok/s on Qwen 3.6 27B Q8

https://imil.net/blog/posts/2026/rtx-5080-+-rtx-3090-setup-80+-tok-s-on-qwen-3.6-27b-q8/
117•iMil•8h ago•43 comments

AI OSS tool repo goes archived over night after raising $7.3M Seed

https://github.com/tensorzero/tensorzero
196•hek2sch•6h ago•137 comments

Show HN: Paca – Lightweight Jira alternative for human-AI collaboration

https://github.com/Paca-AI/paca
106•pikann22•9h ago•42 comments

An Interview with Intel's Kira Boyko: Xeon 6's Product Director

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/an-interview-with-intels-kira-boyko
42•lumpa•6h ago•2 comments

Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access
2972•Dylan1312•17h ago•2160 comments

Amazon CEO's Talks with U.S. Officials Triggered Crackdown on Anthropic Models

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/amazon-ceos-talks-with-u-s-officials-triggered-crackdown-on-anthropic...
140•ls612•1h ago•133 comments

The state of building user interfaces in Rust

https://areweguiyet.com/#ecosystem
129•mahirsaid•3d ago•93 comments

Tessera – a consent-gated tunnel that's blind to your traffic

https://github.com/emmayusufu/tessera
5•emmanuelkimaswa•3d ago•0 comments

Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Packages

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arch-Linux-AUR-More-Than-1500
219•qwertox•6h ago•135 comments

Trophic memory, deer, and a unique scientific object

https://thoughtforms.life/trophic-memory-deer-and-a-truly-unique-scientific-object/
7•atombender•3d ago•2 comments

PwC Report: AI Making Medical Bills Higher

https://fortune.com/2026/06/12/ai-making-medical-bills-higher/
14•karakoram•1h ago•2 comments

How to setup a local coding agent on macOS

https://ikyle.me/blog/2026/how-to-setup-a-local-coding-agent-on-macos
462•kkm•1d ago•114 comments

The computer science degree isn’t dead

https://spectrum.ieee.org/computer-science-degree-isnt-dead
186•jnord•3d ago•174 comments

Open source AI must win

https://opensourceaimustwin.com/?share=v2
1436•vednig•16h ago•445 comments

Shepherd's Dog: A Game by the Most Dangerous AI Model

https://koenvangilst.nl/lab/claude-fable-shepherds-dog
155•vnglst•13h ago•118 comments

Show HN: Putt.day a daily mini golf game

https://putt.day/
272•ellg•19h ago•100 comments

Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware

https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/2064661778978533571
441•marc__1•1d ago•229 comments

Show HN: 2 Weeks of Hallucinate – The Photo Gallery

https://hallucinate.site/gallery
59•stagas•6h ago•18 comments