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 wonder if this was released due to Xen's recent x86 instruction emulation bugs. http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9932 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9383
Intel is releasing the source of XED but canceling IACA which is built on top of XED. Color me confused. Still, this will be useful for a lot of projects to have this piece of infrastructure for such an important CISC ISA available under an Apache license. Boring as hell, but useful. For example, ARM tests their ARM LLVM backend using a golden reference implementation. This is the MC Hammer test: encode/decode assemble/disassemble[1]. This can be the golden reference for…
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
- 265
- Total comments
- 49
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-12-17 | Intel XED open-sourced | walterbell | 5 | 0 |
| 2016-12-17 | Intel X86 Encoder DecoderFirst breakout · Best thread | luu | 146 | 40 |
| 2019-05-06 | Intel XED – x86 Encoder DecoderLatest 20+ point return | peter_d_sherman | 114 | 9 |