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Patrick C. Toulme
Personal blog · patricktoulme.substack.comaihardwareprogramming
Patrick C. Toulme writes Just a Byte, a personal blog at patricktoulme.substack.com about ai, hardware and programming. Since 2025, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “From Jax to VLIW: Tracing a Computation Through the TPU Compiler Stack”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-04, 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 Substack for posts on Google's TPU compiler stack, such as tracing a JAX computation through to VLIW. One commenter lists it alongside TPU hardware papers as further reading.
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.
Technical articles on AI compilers, custom silicon, and AI systems. Exploring JAX and PyTorch targeting custom hardware, with a focus on high-performance LLMs. Click to read Just a Byte - AI Compilers, Silicon, and Systems, by Patrick C. Toulme,
Most-linked posts?
- From Jax to VLIW: Tracing a Computation Through the TPU Compiler Stack3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-12-28
- When XLA Isn't Enough: From Pallas to VLIW with Splash Attention on TPU2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-11
What Hacker News says?
Worth adding on that note: From JAX to VLIW: Tracing a Computation Through the TPU Compiler Stack, https://patricktoulme.substack.com/p/from-jax-to-vliw-tracin... Google’s Training Chips Revealed: TPUv2 and TPUv3, HotChips 2020, https://hc32.hotchips.org/assets/program/conference/day2/Hot... Ten Lessons From Three Generations Shaped Google’s TPUv4i, ISCA 2021, https://gwern.net/doc/ai/scaling/hardware/2021-jouppi.pdf
Comment linking /p/from-jax-to-vliw-tracing-a-computation
on “Anthropic's original take home assignment open sourced”Submitted Tracing a Full MoE Training Step Through the XLA Compiler as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted CuTile on Blackwell: NVIDIA's Compiler Moat Is Already Built as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted From Jax to VLIW: Tracing a Computation Through the TPU Compiler Stack as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted When XLA Isn't Enough: From Pallas to VLIW with Splash Attention on TPU as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted When XLA Isn't Enough: From Pallas to VLIW with Splash Attention on TPU as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted From Jax to VLIW: Tracing a Computation Through the TPU Compiler Stack as a story · 1 points
HN discussion