Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderI'm about to head out the door, but here's what I see. He's got two fundamental changes to the way a modern CPU is designed: * Internal representation of floats is logarithmic * Small processing elements are connected in a mesh network that is made explicit to the programmer The outcome of the second is that there is more work for a programmer, as details of the hardware are no longer hidden. The tradeoff is that none of the overhead…
Singluar computing have built a chip based on this tech, and deployed in a military UAV. It enabled tracking of objects(which ws impossible before due to power constraints), at 6400x the performance/power of other best known methods. http://www.defensetechbriefs.com/component/content/article/1... http://proceedings.spiedigitallibrary.org/proceeding.aspx?ar... From the paper: "The hardware is designed to perform high dynamic range arithmetic with roughly 1% error per operation. Singular has developed and studied…
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 322
- Total comments
- 99
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-01-05 | Computing 10,000x more efficiently | jedi_stannis | 3 | 0 |
| 2012-02-20 | Computing 10,000x More Efficiently (slides)First breakout · Best thread | silentbicycle | 185 | 41 |
| 2014-02-24 | Computing 10,000X more efficiently (2010) [pdf]Latest 20+ point return | luu | 134 | 58 |