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Bugsik
Personal blog · blog.bugsiki.dev/postsprogrammingsystemshardware
Bugsik is a personal blog at blog.bugsiki.dev about programming, systems and hardware. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “PMU Counters on Apple Silicon”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's post on Apple Silicon performance counters. The quoted section describes hitting Apple Instruments' limit of about 10 counters while measuring Apple Silicon performance.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- PMU Counters on Apple Silicon3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-01-07
What Hacker News says?
https://blog.bugsiki.dev/posts/apple-pmu/ > I quickly found out that Apple Instruments doesn’t support fetching more than 10 counters, sometimes 8, and sometimes less. I was constantly getting errors like '<SOME_COUNTER>' conflicts with a previously added event. The maximum that I could get is 10 counters. So, the first takeaway was that there is a limit to how many counters I can fetch, and another is that counters…
Comment linking /posts/apple-pmu/
on “Why E cores make Apple Silicon fast”Submitted Zig Profiling on Apple Silicon as a story · 119 points
HN discussionSubmitted PMU Counters on Apple Silicon as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted CPU Counters on Apple Silicon: article + tool as a story · 2 points
HN discussion