8087
for hardware engineers, low-level programmers
Why this scored 17
every term, weightedIts fastest-moving item, measured against the pace of its own source
Whether that velocity is itself speeding up, as a per-hour rate
How many independent communities its own items come from
Decays to zero over 14 days, counted from when we first saw it
Subtracted once something is big and old — sized by its biggest item, aged from when we first saw it
Weights are hand-tuned, not learned — we're calibrating them against realized trends as history accumulates. On an entity's first sighting there's no previous reading to compare against, so acceleration starts from a neutral prior rather than a measurement, and velocity falls back to engagement over its whole lifetime until a second reading exists. Full methodology
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Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction
Research uncovers the scale instruction in Intel 8087 microcode, aiding retro and reverse-engineer work. · for hardware historians, reverse engineers
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Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction
Intel's 8087 microcode details the scale instruction, useful for low-level optimization work. · for hardware engineers, low-level programmers
hackernewsSteadyhardware44d ago