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A Simple CPU on the Game of Life (2021)

84 pointsby jxmorris1208/06/202512 commentsview on HN

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mwczlast Saturday at 11:03 PM

First, I thought "not so simple!" But it's wonderfully grokkable compared to zooming in on equivalent hardware and watching transistor states unfold.

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TheOtherHobbeslast Sunday at 9:49 AM

Conway would have loved this.

pronlast Saturday at 9:20 PM

That's just beautiful!

dvrj101last Sunday at 4:21 AM

could not find what the stack he used for the site, it looks so good and readable. Anyone have any clue ?

fredleylast Sunday at 4:10 PM

Fun challenge for AoC…

JKCalhounlast Saturday at 10:30 PM

Now if there were some custom FPGA that ran the life rules…

nokeyalast Sunday at 2:20 PM

Now run DOOM on it

jason66last Sunday at 12:01 AM

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