Hackernews posts about x86

X86 is a family of instruction sets and processor architectures developed by Intel Corporation for building microprocessors.

1. Show HN: X86CSS – An x86 CPU emulator written in CSS (lyra.horse)
   220 points by rebane2001 about 14 hours ago | 70 comments
2. Minimal x86 Kernel Zig (github.com)
   155 points by lopespm 7 days ago | 66 comments
3. How many registers does an x86-64 CPU have? (2020) (blog.yossarian.net)
   115 points by tosh 10 days ago | 95 comments
4. GNU Hurd Is "Almost There" with x86_64, SMP and ~75% of Debian Packages Building (www.phoronix.com)
   57 points by sergiogdr 23 days ago | 23 comments
5. Show HN: An x86 assembly game from 2002, ported to WebAssembly with Claude Code (particlefield.com)
   6 points by gottebp 10 days ago | 2 comments
6. We Built UltrafastSecp256k1 Up to 51% Faster ECC Across x86,ARM64,and RISC-V
   5 points by shrecshrec 2 days ago | discuss
7. Skeeto/w64devkit: Portable C and C++ Development Kit for x64 (and x86) Windows (github.com)
   4 points by Tomte 9 days ago | discuss
8. The curious case of binfmt for x86 emulation for ARM Docker (gergely.imreh.net)
   4 points by pvtmert 13 days ago | discuss
9. UIUC 2002 – we wrote a space shooter in x86 asm. In 2026 Claude resurrected it (github.com)
   3 points by gottebp 9 days ago | 1 comments
10. Compendium: An strace-like x86 Linux syscall tracer in Rust (pker.xyz)
    3 points by fanf2 3 days ago | discuss
11. Show HN: Nos – a hobby x86-64 C++ OS kernel running on real KVM clouds (github.com)
    3 points by irqlevel 7 days ago | discuss
12. Breaking architecture barriers: Running x86 games on ARM [video] (fosdem.org)
    3 points by wicket 22 days ago | discuss
13. Show HN: Evolved x86 AVX-512 kernels for NF4 LLM inference (github.com)
    2 points by Anuar81 9 days ago | discuss
14. KVM: x86/PVM: Introduce a new hypervisor (2024) (lwn.net)
    2 points by indigodaddy 16 days ago | discuss
15. Evolution of the x86 context switch in Linux (2018) (www.maizure.org)
    2 points by turrini 21 days ago | discuss
16. Show HN: A header-only C++20 compile-time assembler for x86/x64 instructions (github.com)
    2 points by mahmoudimus 27 days ago | discuss
17. mcelog: Logs and accounts machine checks on modern x86 Linux systems (www.mcelog.org)
    2 points by teleforce 28 days ago | discuss
18. Show HN: AI-optimized x86-64 assembly vs. GCC -O3 on three production kernels (github.com)
    1 points by cod-e 9 days ago | 1 comments
19. Show HN: C discrete event SIM w stackful coroutines runs 45x faster than SimPy (github.com)
    69 points by ambonvik 21 days ago | 18 comments
20. Show HN: Copy-and-patch compiler for hard real-time Python (github.com)
    65 points by Saloc 13 days ago | 11 comments
21. G Lang – A lightweight interpreter written in D (2.4MB)
    35 points by pouyathe 25 days ago | 18 comments
22. Show HN: I made a dual-bootable NixBSD (NixOS and FreeBSD) image (github.com)
    9 points by jonhermansen 26 days ago | 2 comments
23. Show HN: Axiom – C++ tensor library with NumPy API and Metal GPU support
    5 points by noahkay13 22 days ago | discuss
24. Show HN: Chaos Monkey but for Audio Video Testing (WebRTC and UDP) (github.com)
    4 points by MdSadiqMd 1 day ago | discuss
25. Show HN: Glance – Fast CSV inspection for the terminal (SIMD-accelerated) (github.com)
    3 points by AveryClapp 17 days ago | discuss
26. Show HN: KvatchCLI – Query Multiple Data Sources with SQL(Postgres,CSV,APIs)
    3 points by squeakycheese 19 days ago | discuss
27. Show HN: Vibe-coded 32-bit OS from scratch – multitasking, windowing, networking (github.com)
    2 points by djoker86 10 days ago | discuss
28. Show HN: ShadowStrike – building an open-source EDR from scratch (github.com)
    1 points by Soocile 9 days ago | 2 comments
29. Show HN: PicoClaw 10MB OpenClaw alternative that runs AI agents on $10 hardware (picoclaw.org)
    1 points by zoudong376 11 days ago | 1 comments
30. Show HN: I ported PicoClaw to a 32-bit Windows laptop (vibe-coded) (github.com)
    1 points by venkatram-s 5 days ago | discuss