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.
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HN comment orderAny folks on here know of good resources that might help someone begin to understand what they're looking at here? More generally, learning about the physical operation of microprocessors? I'm particularly iffy when it gets to where the wires and the assembler meet, if you will.
It's a few years old now, but still quite interesting to play with. The CPU itself is only 3.5K transistors but already looks amazingly complex until you visualise how it's broken down into individual, mostly independent modules: http://forum.6502.org/viewtopic.php?t=2208&f=8 http://breaknes.com/ (The Russians seem to have a fondness for detailed IC reverse-engineering. There's a lot of Russian-only information on the internals of the 6502, 8080, 8085, Z80, etc.)
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
- 240
- Total comments
- 45
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-06-13 | Visual simulation of the 6502 CPUFirst breakout · Best thread | gaoprea | 129 | 24 |
| 2017-07-30 | 6502 transistor level hardware simulation in JavaScriptLatest 20+ point return | dgellow | 109 | 21 |
| 2020-01-23 | Visual Simulation of the 6502 Microprocessor | kick | 1 | 0 |
| 2021-08-01 | Visual 6502 in JavaScript | bpierre | 1 | 0 |