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fhools··on The first conformant M1 GPU driver
They are doing such good work. That was amazing to read and I learned something about finding hidden instructions by thinking about how a HW engineer would encode bits.
fhools··on I'm 17 and wrote this guide on how CPUs run programs
Hey great work you did there. I'd also like to recommend nand2tetris and its companion book Elements of Computing Systems. If you'd like to dig deep into how a cpu is actually elemented via HDL.
fhools··on Ask HN: Is it just me or GPT-4's quality has significantly deteriorated lately?
There was a talk by a researcher where he was saying that they could see the progress being made on chatgpt by how much success it had with drawing a unicorn in latex. What stuck out to me was he said that the safer the model got the worst it got at drawing a unicorn.
fhools··on Ask HN: I've realized I'm a bad software engineer and I'm over 30, what's next?
Just the fact that you realize there's some things you need to work on is proof itself that you do belong there.

You pointed out specific issues with your work, so you can go about improving on those thing.

Keep your chin up.

fhools··on Why isn't Godot an ECS-based game engine?
My understanding is the performance benefits come from the locality of the data. Usually in an array for each component. Whereas in a OOP system, your objects would be scattered throughout the heap.
fhools··on 'Rent-a-person who does nothing' in Tokyo receives endless requests, gratitude
wait, are you making a joke there?
fhools··on Finland adds the demoscene as a UNESCO intangible world cultural heritage
This is wonderful. Reading a WIRED magazine article on the demo scene when I was a early teen was what got me into programming in the first place.