Best Hardware stories of 2026

A discussion about running Atari ST music demos on Amiga, with mentions of emulators, hardware capabilities, and specific sound chips like Paula and SID.

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Learn WebGPU for C++

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China begins producing advanced chipmaking deep-ultraviolet lithography machines

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What happens when a GPU reads memory

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cuTile Rust: Safe, data-race-free GPU kernels in Rust

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The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT's Greatest RISC (1998)

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The Age of Personalized Hardware Is Coming

Discussions focus on the shrinking hardware gap, the rise of personalized hardware, and the implications for software and user behavior.

Best Hardware stories of 2026

Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler

California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law

Building a custom octocopter from scratch with no prior hardware experience

GPU World

Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded

The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025)

AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon

Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS

US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos

Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line

New stainless steel can survive conditions for hydrogen production in seawater

ReactOS (FOSS "Windows") achieves 3D-accelerated Half-Life on real hardware

Apple Silicon and macOS VMs: Faster LLM Inference with llama.cpp

GrapheneOS project: pixel 11 no longer supports hardware memory tagging (MTE)

Intel Starts Shipping High-NA EUV Silicon

The Silicon Valley Founder Meat Grinder

Chinese chipmaker shares surge 470%

Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy

The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and You

Analyzing data from Silicon Valley ventures and founders prosecuted for fraud

Popping the GPU Bubble

Sandia National Labs SA3000 8085 CPU

Zombie unicorns are haunting Silicon Valley

Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2

Self-hosting Kimi K3: 20% more hardware cost, 20% better task resolution

I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip

RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB

Oracle cut its Always Free ARM limits to 2 OCPU / 12GB, enforced Aug 18

Apple boss Tim Cook says prices to rise due to memory chip costs

The adder at the heart of Intel's 8087 floating-point chip

The Inference Hardware Revolution of 2026

Book: RISC-V System-on-Chip Design

Jim Keller's startup is building a factory to mass-produce small chip fabs

XY – A Fast, composable, GPU-accelerated interactive plotting library

Running Doom on Our Custom CPU and Going Viral

Fine-tune an 8B model on a 4 GB laptop GPU

PostgreSQL is enough (2024)

27.5KB language-agnostic WebGPU syntax highlighter

Ray tracing massive amounts of animated geometry using tetrahedral cages

Moonshot’s Kimi uses 20k Nvidia chip cluster from Alibaba

Playing Atari ST Music on the Amiga with Zero CPU

Learn WebGPU for C++

China begins producing advanced chipmaking deep-ultraviolet lithography machines

What happens when a GPU reads memory

cuTile Rust: Safe, data-race-free GPU kernels in Rust

The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT's Greatest RISC (1998)

The Age of Personalized Hardware Is Coming

I made a game where you build a CPU from logic gates

ASML's Best Selling Product Isn't What You Think It Is

Nine PBS could lose 70 years of archives after cloud vendor goes defunct