This one[1][2] is the only one that I remember seeing his name, but it's a very good one. In his answer he explains branch prediction, and ended up receiving more than 5000 upvotes for it.
It's a wonderful piece. Well written, well constructed, and immensely informative for those new to the details of the internals of CPUs. Perhaps it deserves to be submitted every month or so. In some sense, seeing it surface yet again gives me hope that there are still people on HN who crave discussions about technical issues.
In case you think that the people here are intelligent and might have something to add, here is the previous discussion of this:
This one[1][2] is the only one that I remember seeing his name, but it's a very good one. In his answer he explains branch prediction, and ended up receiving more than 5000 upvotes for it.
[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4637196
[2] http://stackoverflow.com/a/11227902/240905 (direct link to his answer)