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They currently have XXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1610352539089899520/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXXXX +159% - X Month XXXXXXXXX -XXXX% - X Months XXXXXXXXXX +62% - X Year XXXXXXXXXX +58% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::1610352539089899520/posts_active)  - X Month XX -XX% - X Months XXX +123% - X Year XXX +104% ### Followers: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1610352539089899520/followers)  - X Week XXXXXX +3% - X Month XXXXXX +6.40% - X Months XXXXXX +44% - X Year XXXXXX +114% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1610352539089899520/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::1610352539089899520/influence) --- **Social category influence** [stocks](/list/stocks) [finance](/list/finance) [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [countries](/list/countries) **Social topic influence** [$60b](/topic/$60b), [texas instruments](/topic/texas-instruments), [disc](/topic/disc), [microsoft](/topic/microsoft), [virtual](/topic/virtual), [china](/topic/china), [llm](/topic/llm), [mining](/topic/mining), [github](/topic/github), [if you](/topic/if-you) **Top assets mentioned** [Texas Instruments (TXN)](/topic/texas-instruments) [Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)](/topic/microsoft) [IBM (IBM)](/topic/ibm) ### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::1610352539089899520/posts) --- Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "Fading out audio is one of the most CPU-intensive tasks you can possibly do Values that get close (but not quite) zero hit an underflow gap known as "Subnormal" range. Its a mathematical conundrum so tricky both x86 and ARM made special CPU instructions just to handle it"  [@lauriewired](/creator/x/lauriewired) on [X](/post/tweet/1947758085659050095) 2025-07-22 20:38:09 UTC 81.1K followers, 735.2K engagements "Texas Instruments announced they'll be investing $60B into a few U.S silicon fabs. the node size 130nm. watch out everyone we can make our own domesticPentium IIIs"  [@lauriewired](/creator/x/lauriewired) on [X](/post/tweet/1935744678244368522) 2025-06-19 17:01:10 UTC 81.1K followers, 550.3K engagements "Theres a cursed C++ competition where programmers try to create the largest possible error message. Finalists created 1.5GB of error messages from just XXX bytes of source. Preprocessor exploits were so easy they had to create a separate division Here's my favorites:"  [@lauriewired](/creator/x/lauriewired) on [X](/post/tweet/1943410062774444088) 2025-07-10 20:40:40 UTC 81.1K followers, 492.8K engagements "Finally lets come to something you can buy on DigiKey. This Infineon diode intended for welding applications is one giant circle of silicon. Rated for XXX *kilo* amps this weird disc gets clamped between huge heatsinks with even pressure. The circular shape is ideal for creating a uniform current density. And it can be yours for the low price of $XXX Im sure theres other unusual dies out there; let me know if you have an example Id be very curious"  [@lauriewired](/creator/x/lauriewired) on [X](/post/tweet/1948450303457853452) 2025-07-24 18:28:47 UTC 81.1K followers, 9517 engagements "Now just because your PR got merged doesnt mean it went out the public immediatly. Not every sub-version got a public release although new builds would happen every few hours. For those earmarked for public release it would start with a slow; distributed rollout to catch any potential issues before worldwide release. It was pretty crazy at the time I was (daily) pushing code rolled out to XXX Billion devices"  [@lauriewired](/creator/x/lauriewired) on [X](/post/tweet/1947375771275956355) 2025-07-21 19:18:59 UTC 81.1K followers, 51.7K engagements "Microsoft took XX years to be compliant with the C++ standard Seriously. From 1993 to 2020 MSVCs preprocessor wasnt feature-complete. Code that compiles perfectly on Linux often broke. Hold your judgement; there's some interesting historical nuance:"  [@lauriewired](/creator/x/lauriewired) on [X](/post/tweet/1944862776448700926) 2025-07-14 20:53:14 UTC 81.1K followers, 117.4K engagements "MLX Apples machine learning framework just merged a CUDA Backend. Matmul tensor copy ops and other core CUDA primitives are now part of Apples official build. Theres a lot of hype + confusion. Heres what it is andisnt"  [@lauriewired](/creator/x/lauriewired) on [X](/post/tweet/1945187376415805695) 2025-07-15 18:23:05 UTC 81.1K followers, 166.4K engagements "I really miss .swf (shockwave flash) as a format. Literally a chain of bezier paths. Scale to any resolution. Oh and it loads progressively with its own virtual machine (ActionScript Bytecode). No modern filetype comes close. Vector video was a special era"  [@lauriewired](/creator/x/lauriewired) on [X](/post/tweet/1937979122741088707) 2025-06-25 21:00:03 UTC 81.1K followers, 319.8K engagements "Whole-home lithium power used to be a rich mans game. Now its high-end graphics card territory. This is a $2500 lithium polymer battery that would power an entire US residential house for 24hr. China is *crushing* it on kilowatt hours per dollar"  [@lauriewired](/creator/x/lauriewired) on [X](/post/tweet/1941555541152870887) 2025-07-05 17:51:28 UTC 81.1K followers, 720.9K engagements "What happens when you freeze a process *perfectly* RAM VRAM network everything. Imagine: - Live-migrations of LLM training jobs - time-travel debugging - Surgical repairs of a crash moments before segfault Its called CRIU and its already here:"  [@lauriewired](/creator/x/lauriewired) on [X](/post/tweet/1943034176309203164) 2025-07-09 19:47:02 UTC 81.1K followers, 79.1K engagements "If you see a github user with this badge its because they have code 1000 feet underground in the Arctic Circle. X years ago Github took a snapshot of all public repos stored it on photographic film (essentially big QR codes) and stuck it in a mining tunnel"  [@lauriewired](/creator/x/lauriewired) on [X](/post/tweet/1938328893922152916) 2025-06-26 20:09:55 UTC 81.1K followers, 557.5K engagements "The number may be well below the human hearing threshold but the CPU calculates it anyway Without extra code to avoid subnormals this can cause erratic performance issues. With x86s SSE extension the DAZ (Denormals-are-zero) instruction lets you round down these small numbers without invoking the subnormal routine. As long as the compiler is hinted correctly (and using the right optimization level) well behaved software should implement DAZ properly. (ARMs NEON extension implements flush to zero by default; otherwise controlled by the FZ bit for SIMD) Theres a lot more to this story the"  [@lauriewired](/creator/x/lauriewired) on [X](/post/tweet/1947758093980623236) 2025-07-22 20:38:11 UTC 81.1K followers, 53K engagements "This music video can crash your computer. It even has its own CVE number (CVE-2022-38392). Janet Jacksons Rhythm Nation contains specific resonant frequencies that cause errors on certain 5400rpm hard drives. Play at your own risk"  [@lauriewired](/creator/x/lauriewired) on [X](/post/tweet/1943734312136061240) 2025-07-11 18:09:07 UTC 81.1K followers, 204.1K engagements "What if humanity forgot how to make CPUs Imagine Zero Tape-out Day (Z-Day) the moment where no further silicon designs ever get manufactured. Advanced core designs fare out very badly. Assuming we keep our existing supply heres how it would play out:"  [@lauriewired](/creator/x/lauriewired) on [X](/post/tweet/1922015999118680495) 2025-05-12 19:48:18 UTC 81.1K followers, 1M engagements "Windows is one massive (private) Git repo. When I was at MS the Windows Source had around 3k PRs a day Regular Git didnt scale to those levels at the time. Internally there was a progression from Git - GVFS - Scalar - merge back to Git. Here's how it worked:"  [@lauriewired](/creator/x/lauriewired) on [X](/post/tweet/1947375765169008734) 2025-07-21 19:18:57 UTC 81.1K followers, 604.2K engagements "A lone Boston coder rewrote BIOS in 1984. IBM wanted to sue. The programmer's clever loophole became the model for legally defensible reverse engineering. Youve probably been booting his descendants ever since. This is how Phoenix Technologies got away with it:"  [@lauriewired](/creator/x/lauriewired) on [X](/post/tweet/1936147401787818084) 2025-06-20 19:41:27 UTC 81.1K followers, 850.9K engagements "Compiler performance is an underrated metric that completely changes the feel of a language. X seconds is the critical threshold that interrupts flow state. Encouraging small generic functions everywhere (*cough* Rust Swift) really slows the compiler down"  [@lauriewired](/creator/x/lauriewired) on [X](/post/tweet/1945968974740725981) 2025-07-17 22:08:52 UTC 81.1K followers, 73.2K engagements "Once a PR was made a ton of automated checks would start. For something small like a Virus sig it would make sure you didnt break the defender engine ;) Of course PR's were hand-reviewed but honestly the build process was so robust it caught just about anything"  [@lauriewired](/creator/x/lauriewired) on [X](/post/tweet/1947375769447240020) 2025-07-21 19:18:58 UTC 81.1K followers, 53.6K engagements "Sharks love our undersea cables. Some suspect the weak low-frequency fields attract sharks like distressed fish. Fiber optics are particularly tasty; AT&T expressed no incidents with old copper cables. In the 80s telecoms called the incident Jaw's Syndrome"  [@lauriewired](/creator/x/lauriewired) on [X](/post/tweet/1945540451291074992) 2025-07-16 17:46:04 UTC 81.1K followers, 194.5K engagements "Modern tech tends to focus on more. More data. More bandwidth. More compute. The best software engineering happens in the less sphere; codec engineering. Listen to this stream with XX% packet loss. The Opus Encoder team is cracked:"  [@lauriewired](/creator/x/lauriewired) on [X](/post/tweet/1936872198213644331) 2025-06-22 19:41:32 UTC 81.1K followers, 145.9K engagements "shower thought: speculative decoding is to LLMs what branch prediction is to CPUs"  [@lauriewired](/creator/x/lauriewired) on [X](/post/tweet/1934858310219669517) 2025-06-17 06:19:03 UTC 81.1K followers, 26.1K engagements "Intels proposal wonat the cost of performance. On x86 subnormal floating points can use XXX additional clock cycles This creates interesting quirks in the world of real-time audio processing. Fading volume to zero becomes *very* expensive computationally"  [@lauriewired](/creator/x/lauriewired) on [X](/post/tweet/1947758091782787504) 2025-07-22 20:38:11 UTC 81.1K followers, 52.2K engagements "At the peak of the dot-com era Ball Semiconductor was a crazy silicon fab. Founded by ex-Texas Instruments folks the idea was (you guessed it) to etch using spherical photolithography. They had some success with the process But the company failed dramatically"  [@lauriewired](/creator/x/lauriewired) on [X](/post/tweet/1948450301683564555) 2025-07-24 18:28:47 UTC 81.1K followers, 13.2K engagements
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@lauriewired LaurieWired
LaurieWired posts on X about $60b, texas instruments, disc, microsoft the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
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- X Month XXXXXXXXX -XXXX%
- X Months XXXXXXXXXX +62%
- X Year XXXXXXXXXX +58%
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- X Months XXX +123%
- X Year XXX +104%
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- X Months XXXXXX +44%
- X Year XXXXXX +114%
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Social category influence stocks finance technology brands countries
Social topic influence $60b, texas instruments, disc, microsoft, virtual, china, llm, mining, github, if you
Top assets mentioned Texas Instruments (TXN) Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) IBM (IBM)
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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"Fading out audio is one of the most CPU-intensive tasks you can possibly do Values that get close (but not quite) zero hit an underflow gap known as "Subnormal" range. Its a mathematical conundrum so tricky both x86 and ARM made special CPU instructions just to handle it"
@lauriewired on X 2025-07-22 20:38:09 UTC 81.1K followers, 735.2K engagements
"Texas Instruments announced they'll be investing $60B into a few U.S silicon fabs. the node size 130nm. watch out everyone we can make our own domesticPentium IIIs" @lauriewired on X 2025-06-19 17:01:10 UTC 81.1K followers, 550.3K engagements
"Theres a cursed C++ competition where programmers try to create the largest possible error message. Finalists created 1.5GB of error messages from just XXX bytes of source. Preprocessor exploits were so easy they had to create a separate division Here's my favorites:" @lauriewired on X 2025-07-10 20:40:40 UTC 81.1K followers, 492.8K engagements
"Finally lets come to something you can buy on DigiKey. This Infineon diode intended for welding applications is one giant circle of silicon. Rated for XXX kilo amps this weird disc gets clamped between huge heatsinks with even pressure. The circular shape is ideal for creating a uniform current density. And it can be yours for the low price of $XXX Im sure theres other unusual dies out there; let me know if you have an example Id be very curious" @lauriewired on X 2025-07-24 18:28:47 UTC 81.1K followers, 9517 engagements
"Now just because your PR got merged doesnt mean it went out the public immediatly. Not every sub-version got a public release although new builds would happen every few hours. For those earmarked for public release it would start with a slow; distributed rollout to catch any potential issues before worldwide release. It was pretty crazy at the time I was (daily) pushing code rolled out to XXX Billion devices" @lauriewired on X 2025-07-21 19:18:59 UTC 81.1K followers, 51.7K engagements
"Microsoft took XX years to be compliant with the C++ standard Seriously. From 1993 to 2020 MSVCs preprocessor wasnt feature-complete. Code that compiles perfectly on Linux often broke. Hold your judgement; there's some interesting historical nuance:" @lauriewired on X 2025-07-14 20:53:14 UTC 81.1K followers, 117.4K engagements
"MLX Apples machine learning framework just merged a CUDA Backend. Matmul tensor copy ops and other core CUDA primitives are now part of Apples official build. Theres a lot of hype + confusion. Heres what it is andisnt" @lauriewired on X 2025-07-15 18:23:05 UTC 81.1K followers, 166.4K engagements
"I really miss .swf (shockwave flash) as a format. Literally a chain of bezier paths. Scale to any resolution. Oh and it loads progressively with its own virtual machine (ActionScript Bytecode). No modern filetype comes close. Vector video was a special era" @lauriewired on X 2025-06-25 21:00:03 UTC 81.1K followers, 319.8K engagements
"Whole-home lithium power used to be a rich mans game. Now its high-end graphics card territory. This is a $2500 lithium polymer battery that would power an entire US residential house for 24hr. China is crushing it on kilowatt hours per dollar" @lauriewired on X 2025-07-05 17:51:28 UTC 81.1K followers, 720.9K engagements
"What happens when you freeze a process perfectly RAM VRAM network everything. Imagine: - Live-migrations of LLM training jobs - time-travel debugging - Surgical repairs of a crash moments before segfault Its called CRIU and its already here:" @lauriewired on X 2025-07-09 19:47:02 UTC 81.1K followers, 79.1K engagements
"If you see a github user with this badge its because they have code 1000 feet underground in the Arctic Circle. X years ago Github took a snapshot of all public repos stored it on photographic film (essentially big QR codes) and stuck it in a mining tunnel" @lauriewired on X 2025-06-26 20:09:55 UTC 81.1K followers, 557.5K engagements
"The number may be well below the human hearing threshold but the CPU calculates it anyway Without extra code to avoid subnormals this can cause erratic performance issues. With x86s SSE extension the DAZ (Denormals-are-zero) instruction lets you round down these small numbers without invoking the subnormal routine. As long as the compiler is hinted correctly (and using the right optimization level) well behaved software should implement DAZ properly. (ARMs NEON extension implements flush to zero by default; otherwise controlled by the FZ bit for SIMD) Theres a lot more to this story the" @lauriewired on X 2025-07-22 20:38:11 UTC 81.1K followers, 53K engagements
"This music video can crash your computer. It even has its own CVE number (CVE-2022-38392). Janet Jacksons Rhythm Nation contains specific resonant frequencies that cause errors on certain 5400rpm hard drives. Play at your own risk" @lauriewired on X 2025-07-11 18:09:07 UTC 81.1K followers, 204.1K engagements
"What if humanity forgot how to make CPUs Imagine Zero Tape-out Day (Z-Day) the moment where no further silicon designs ever get manufactured. Advanced core designs fare out very badly. Assuming we keep our existing supply heres how it would play out:" @lauriewired on X 2025-05-12 19:48:18 UTC 81.1K followers, 1M engagements
"Windows is one massive (private) Git repo. When I was at MS the Windows Source had around 3k PRs a day Regular Git didnt scale to those levels at the time. Internally there was a progression from Git - GVFS - Scalar - merge back to Git. Here's how it worked:" @lauriewired on X 2025-07-21 19:18:57 UTC 81.1K followers, 604.2K engagements
"A lone Boston coder rewrote BIOS in 1984. IBM wanted to sue. The programmer's clever loophole became the model for legally defensible reverse engineering. Youve probably been booting his descendants ever since. This is how Phoenix Technologies got away with it:" @lauriewired on X 2025-06-20 19:41:27 UTC 81.1K followers, 850.9K engagements
"Compiler performance is an underrated metric that completely changes the feel of a language. X seconds is the critical threshold that interrupts flow state. Encouraging small generic functions everywhere (cough Rust Swift) really slows the compiler down" @lauriewired on X 2025-07-17 22:08:52 UTC 81.1K followers, 73.2K engagements
"Once a PR was made a ton of automated checks would start. For something small like a Virus sig it would make sure you didnt break the defender engine ;) Of course PR's were hand-reviewed but honestly the build process was so robust it caught just about anything" @lauriewired on X 2025-07-21 19:18:58 UTC 81.1K followers, 53.6K engagements
"Sharks love our undersea cables. Some suspect the weak low-frequency fields attract sharks like distressed fish. Fiber optics are particularly tasty; AT&T expressed no incidents with old copper cables. In the 80s telecoms called the incident Jaw's Syndrome" @lauriewired on X 2025-07-16 17:46:04 UTC 81.1K followers, 194.5K engagements
"Modern tech tends to focus on more. More data. More bandwidth. More compute. The best software engineering happens in the less sphere; codec engineering. Listen to this stream with XX% packet loss. The Opus Encoder team is cracked:" @lauriewired on X 2025-06-22 19:41:32 UTC 81.1K followers, 145.9K engagements
"shower thought: speculative decoding is to LLMs what branch prediction is to CPUs" @lauriewired on X 2025-06-17 06:19:03 UTC 81.1K followers, 26.1K engagements
"Intels proposal wonat the cost of performance. On x86 subnormal floating points can use XXX additional clock cycles This creates interesting quirks in the world of real-time audio processing. Fading volume to zero becomes very expensive computationally" @lauriewired on X 2025-07-22 20:38:11 UTC 81.1K followers, 52.2K engagements
"At the peak of the dot-com era Ball Semiconductor was a crazy silicon fab. Founded by ex-Texas Instruments folks the idea was (you guessed it) to etch using spherical photolithography. They had some success with the process But the company failed dramatically" @lauriewired on X 2025-07-24 18:28:47 UTC 81.1K followers, 13.2K engagements