Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — klelatti

klelatti

HN member
Joined
Fri, May 01, 2020, 4:31 PM UTC
HN karma
9,997
Public activity
2,380 items

About klelatti

Writing a newsletter about computer history at thechipletter.substack.com

Recent public activity

  1. comment
    Comment #49090322

    It's not a Substack site and virtually no Substack sites do this.

  2. story
  3. story
  4. story
  5. story
  6. story
  7. story
  8. story
  9. comment
    Comment #47438641

    The paper came out of work on ENIAC and was adapted to follow the approach in the paper but Baby was built from outset to use that approach and its design much more closely matches…

  10. comment
    Comment #47436851

    ENIAC was very important but this article overstates its significance and ignores other (non US) machines to the point of historical inaccuracy. No mention of Z3 or Manchester Baby…

  11. comment
    Comment #47345286

    You don’t think it’s a strength that they have the courage to seek views from as wide a range of perspectives as possible, including from outside the UK?

  12. comment
    Comment #47280108

    The point about the difficulties with Arm may be fair comment but the positioning and outlook of this post is decidedly weird. It seems to pretend that competitive desktop Arm proc…

  13. comment
    Comment #47181951

    The brand is built on Dyson being a super genius inventor. He might be ingenious but he's applied to devices where it's not really needed and with unpalatable trade-offs. In the UK…

  14. comment
    Comment #47179965

    Ha! Very good and unlike say Windows it doesn't suck.

  15. comment
    Comment #47179541

    We have a pre-schooler and am happy to confirm that our Henry is a favourite member of the family. Just as important he's sufficiently strong to withstand our boy's curiosity :)

  16. comment
    Comment #47179478

    Fascinating, but I'm not sure how these are consistent? - Based on classic Z80 architecture by Zilog - Inspired by modern RISC designs (ARM, RISC-V, MIPS)

  17. comment
    Comment #47179400

    And to prove it is possible to have a profitable vacuum cleaner manufacturing business that makes its machines in the UK - long live Henry! https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle…

  18. comment
    Comment #46923832

    Web version with links, etc: https://rlhfbook.com/

  19. story
  20. comment
    Comment #46722255

    > Pamantasan Cheese What cheese? A misspelling?

  21. story
  22. story
  23. story
  24. story
  25. story