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reflexive.space
Personal blog · reflexive.space · on HN as eigenformhardwaresystems
reflexive.space is a personal blog at reflexive.space about hardware and systems. Since 2023, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Speculating on the Apple M2: Local Prediction”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-10, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
One commenter links it as a resource on low-level CPU benchmarking, specifically capturing per-micro-op data on AMD Zen 1 and later CPUs, alongside uops.info. The comments do not judge the writing.
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.
Articles about hardware, software, and the space in-between.
Most-linked posts?
- Speculating on the Apple M2: Local Prediction2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-14
What Hacker News says?
A few more links for low level CPU benchmarking 1 - https://www.uops.info/index.html similar content to Anger's tables 2 - https://reflexive.space/zen2-ibs/ how to capture per micro op data on AMD >= Zen 1 CPUs I agree on "it depends". And usually not only on your actual code and data, but also how you arrange it over cache lines, what other code on the same core/complex/system is doing to your view of the cache and…
Comment linking /zen2-ibs/
on “I Ported SAP to a 1976 CPU. It Wasn't That Slow”Submitted Enabling DCI.DbC on a Jasper Lake NUC as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Arm MTE and Speculative Oracles as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Inspecting the Cortex-A76 L1i Cache with Ramindex as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Enabling DCI.DbC on a Jasper Lake NUC as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Microarchonomicon: Return Instructions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Some Notes on Zenbleed as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Speculating on the Apple M2: Local Prediction as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Speculating on the Apple M2: Local Prediction (2023) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion