It's a wonderful piece. Well written, well constructed, and immensely informative for those new to the details of the internals of CPUs. Perhaps it deserves to be submitted every month or so. In some sense, seeing it surface yet again gives me hope that there are still people on HN who crave discussions about technical issues.
In case you think that the people here are intelligent and might have something to add, here is the previous discussion of this:
And it's not helpful that people link to various places on the SE page (the question, or one of the answers), rather than a canonical link to the page.
"still people on HN who crave discussions about technical issues" -- There are actually a lot of highly informed comments. On just about every comments page I click on, there are comments from subject experts.
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It's a wonderful piece. Well written, well constructed, and immensely informative for those new to the details of the internals of CPUs. Perhaps it deserves to be submitted every month or so. In some sense, seeing it surface yet again gives me hope that there are still people on HN who crave discussions about technical issues.
In case you think that the people here are intelligent and might have something to add, here is the previous discussion of this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4637196 (119 comments)
For those complaining that it seems to be posted regularly, here are some of the previous submissions:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4167834 (366 days ago)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4170972 (365 days ago)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4185226 (362 days ago)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4355548 (324 days ago)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4964931 (185 days ago)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5167935 (143 days ago)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5666751 (52 days ago)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5679080 (50 days ago)
I was under the impression HN prevented you from submitting the same URL. How has this happened?
Edit: Looks like each URL is slightly different.
Sometimes people deliberately add stuff to the end of the URL to get past the dupe-check. Perhaps this needs to be penalized somehow?
(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5679080)
And it's not helpful that people link to various places on the SE page (the question, or one of the answers), rather than a canonical link to the page.
Indeed. Also, sometimes repeats slip through, most likely if the earlier submission is no longer in cache/memory.
"still people on HN who crave discussions about technical issues" -- There are actually a lot of highly informed comments. On just about every comments page I click on, there are comments from subject experts.