Hackernews posts about ISA

ISA is an acronym that stands for Instruction Set Architecture, which refers to the set of basic instructions that a computer's central processing unit (CPU) understands and can execute.

  1. UTF-8 is a brilliant design (iamvishnu.com)
    849 points by vishnuharidas 22 days ago | 348 comments
  2. Privacy Badger is a free browser extension made by EFF to stop spying (privacybadger.org)
    847 points by doener 7 days ago | 333 comments
  3. Greenland is a beautiful nightmare (matduggan.com)
    622 points by zdw 7 days ago | 337 comments
  4. QGIS is a free, open-source, cross platform geographical information system (github.com)
    573 points by rcarmo 22 days ago | 127 comments
  5. YouTube is a mysterious monopoly (anderegg.ca)
    370 points by geerlingguy 26 days ago | 478 comments
  6. TigerBeetle is a most interesting database (www.amplifypartners.com)
    298 points by todsacerdoti 4 days ago | 222 comments
  7. There is a huge pool of exceptional junior engineers (workweave.dev)
    260 points by mooreds 5 days ago | 423 comments
  8. Is a movie prop the ultimate laptop bag? (blog.jgc.org)
    251 points by jgrahamc 13 days ago | 255 comments
  9. AMD claims Arm ISA doesn't offer efficiency advantage over x86 (www.techpowerup.com)
    217 points by ksec 26 days ago | 429 comments
  10. Illiteracy Is a Policy Choice (www.theargumentmag.com)
    117 points by themgt 9 days ago | 17 comments
  11. After nearly half a century in deep space, every ping from Voyager 1 is a bonus (www.theregister.com)
    107 points by Brajeshwar 26 days ago | 32 comments
  12. When Your Father Is a Magician, What Do You Believe? (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    90 points by pseudolus 23 days ago | 20 comments
  13. How Isaac Newton discovered the binomial power series (2022) (www.quantamagazine.org)
    90 points by FromTheArchives 16 days ago | 18 comments
  14. Pharma is a small component of US health care spending (www.economist.com)
    79 points by cupola2030 2 days ago | 180 comments
  15. Type checking is a symptom, not a solution (programmingsimplicity.substack.com)
    68 points by mpweiher 30 days ago | 129 comments
  16. Samsung forces ads onto fridges; is a bad sign for other appliances (arstechnica.com)
    68 points by speckx 16 days ago | 32 comments
  17. Divorce plunged in Kentucky – equal custody for fathers is a big reason why (www.wsj.com)
    65 points by thelastgallon 1 day ago | 63 comments
  18. A career is a pie-eating contest and the prize for winning is more pie (jason.energy)
    60 points by mooreds 28 days ago | 77 comments
  19. DHH: Calling someone a "Nazi" is a permission slip for violence (world.hey.com)
    47 points by jaredcwhite 10 days ago | 74 comments
  20. Microsoft 365 Copilot is a commercial failure (www.perspectives.plus)
    43 points by jukkan about 6 hours ago | 29 comments
  21. Amiga SPICE is a program for simulating electronic circuits (www.edsa.uk)
    35 points by doener 11 days ago | 8 comments
  22. Type 5 diabetes is a newly recognised disease (theconversation.com)
    30 points by ValentineC 22 days ago | 2 comments
  23. A blue jay and a green jay mated. Their offspring is a scientific marvel (www.cnn.com)
    29 points by Kaibeezy 5 days ago | 4 comments
  24. China's Snub of U.S. Soybeans Is a Crisis for American Farmers (www.nytimes.com)
    23 points by insane_dreamer 19 days ago | 11 comments
  25. China's Snub of U.S. Soybeans Is a Crisis for American Farmers (www.nytimes.com)
    23 points by JumpCrisscross 19 days ago | 10 comments
  26. AI is a bubble, just admit it
    19 points by zerosizedweasle 9 days ago | 32 comments
  27. When hackathon judging is a public benchmark: my report from Hack the North (github.com)
    18 points by frabonacci 8 days ago | 3 comments
  28. The Open Printer Is a Raspberry Pi Zero W-Powered Printer (www.hackster.io)
    17 points by nmstoker 7 days ago | 1 comments
  29. WarpOS is a multitasking kernel for the PowerPC (PPC) architecture (en.wikipedia.org)
    16 points by doener 19 days ago | discuss
  30. "AI-Powered" Is a Red Flag. Here's a Dev's Guide to Calling Bullshit
    15 points by barnir 6 days ago | 8 comments
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