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Adrian Sampson
Personal blog · adriansampson.net/blogprogrammingsystems
Adrian Sampson's personal blog at adriansampson.net covers programming and systems. Since 2015, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “LLVM for Grad Students”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Adrian Sampson's blog for writing on computer architecture and compilers, such as how an Apple ISA could shape chip design and how to learn LLVM.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- LLVM for Grad Students2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-08-03
- What Is Macroscalar? (2012)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-09-09
What Hacker News says?
True, but the basic point still stands. ISA heavily constrains the final design on-die. ARM might not be able to deliver an ISA that fits Apple's needs. Apple already has a tweaked version of ARM (ARMv7s) [1]. There may come a day where tweaks no longer cut it. At the end of another excellent post, from the same author [2]: > If compiler–architecture co-design is on the table, much more radical opportunities are ava…
Comment linking /blog/macroscalar.html
on “An Apple ISA is coming”Submitted LLVM for Grad Students as a story · 439 points
HN discussionYou may find this link helpful for both the why and how : http://adriansampson.net/blog/llvm.html ( HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9998140 )
Comment linking /blog/llvm.html
on “Ask HN: How to learn LLVM and why?”Submitted Weep for Graphics Programming as a story · 367 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Apple ISA is coming as a story · 278 points
HN discussionSubmitted Probabilistic Programming as a story · 23 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is Macroscalar? (2012) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Probabilistic Programming as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Probably Correct as a story · 2 points
HN discussion
