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GeekDot
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GeekDot is a personal blog at geekdot.com about hardware and systems. Since 2021, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Helios-NG: massively-parallel OS for manycore CPUs”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-05-11, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link GeekDot for its posts on transputers and early parallel hardware, including the Helios Transputer OS and a Parsytec GigaCluster, plus a piece on Nvidia's CUDA bet and the deep learning boom.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Hi! My name is Axel and GeekDot is my public notepad, currently featuring over 190+ posts. Vintage CPUs or complete systems, you'll find it!
Most-linked posts?
- Helios-NG: massively-parallel OS for manycore CPUs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-23
What Hacker News says?
No, that didn’t contain any transputers, but it might have been a Parsytec GigaCluster http://www.geekdot.com/category/hardware/transputer/parsytec...
Comment linking /category/hardware/transputer/parsytec/gigacluster/
on “Atari Transputer Workstation”Submitted Helios-NG: massively-parallel OS for manycore CPUs as a story · 28 points
HN discussion> Huang argued that the simple existence of CUDA would enlarge the supercomputing sector. This view was not widely held, and by the end of 2008, Nvidia’s stock price had declined by seventy percent… This is a good example of how investor behaviour can only quantitatively project what will happen in the future. Huang's bet on GPUs for high performance computing made sense in the long term. Intel didn't have the stayi…
Comment linking /intel-80860/
on “A stubborn computer scientist accidentally launched the deep learning boom”Submitted NumberCruncher Reloaded as a story · 15 points
HN discussionThis "Helios" is Drew DeVault's new kernel, an seL4-inspired microkernel, not the old Unix-like Transputer OS by Perihelion ( https://www.geekdot.com/helios/helios-the-transputer-os/ ) Of course, a port of Doom to a Transputer (network), e.g. the Atari ABAQ/ATW, would also be nice to have :). If you don't have enough Transputers, there's an emulator for the Raspberry Pi Pico (2040) now which also implements Transput…
Comment linking /helios/helios-the-transputer-os/
on “Porting Doom to Helios”Submitted The Parsytech GigaCluster as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Siemens PC-X (2015) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The MIPS RS2030 (2018) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Plan for Helios NG – A FOSS Cluster-Native OS Derived from Tripos as a story · 1 points
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