Hardware stories
From Apple Silicon to custom ASICs and Raspberry Pi projects, hardware stories on HN bridge engineering and consumer technology. This page tracks chip announcements, device reviews, and maker projects that spark technical discussion.
Supply chain constraints, performance benchmarks, and repairability debates add depth beyond product marketing.
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RSS feed for HardwareThe Intel 8087 chip: floating-point addition and subtraction
righto.com · 33 points · 5 comments
Anthropic's proposed AI safety bill only kicks in if 50 deaths or $1B in damages
tomshardware.com · 62 points · 50 comments
NY announces game ownership bill requiring ownership rather than licensing
tomshardware.com · 25 points · 148 comments
AI lab offers free plumbing and HVAC repairs to train AI robots
tomshardware.com · 12 points · 11 comments
I got tired of btop not seeing my Mac's chip, so I built siltop
github.com · 6 points · 25 comments
EU negotiates sanctions swap with China to rescue critical ASML supplier
tomshardware.com · 11 points · 0 comments
Llmspeed – feel how fast a local LLM runs before you buy the hardware
llmspeed.dev · 15 points · 86 comments
Commodore 64 Hardware Simulator
github.com · 4 points · 1 comments
China moves to curb tech exports, including AI, citing national security risks
apnews.com · 10 points · 0 comments
China unveils draft export controls on AI, open-weight models, and chips
ft.com · 8 points · 0 comments
A story of WiFi secrets, UART lockdowns and a damaged flash memory chip
adepts.of0x.cc · 8 points · 6 comments
MacVisor Runs VMs with VLANs and Firewall on Apple Silicon
scaleninja.com · 4 points · 0 comments
PS5 hack delivers native PS2 disc support and 4K upscaling where Sony refused to
tomshardware.com · 9 points · 2 comments
Capy-flash – a 125B MoE model on two 16 GB consumer GPUs
github.com · 6 points · 2 comments
I made puzzle game IT THINKS – you build a GPU from logic gates
catchy.games · 3 points · 0 comments
KNOD: Offloading Linux network packet processing to AMD GPUs
servers99.com · 4 points · 1 comments
Crowd Supply – GoFundMe for hardware development
crowdsupply.com · 3 points · 1 comments
What is the black swan event that could bring down GPU costs?
3 points · 8 comments
BitRun v0.2 – Run 8B ternary LLMs on CPU with live wattage telemetry
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Using AI to reverse engineer hardware
blogs.gnome.org · 33 points · 249 comments
The Commodore 64 hardware simulator: break chips and pins, see the results
github.com · 39 points · 34 comments
Asia chip stocks fall, AI funding worries
cnbc.com · 15 points · 0 comments
SK Hynix conditions new US factory on more US chip equipment exports to China
reuters.com · 5 points · 0 comments
Why are chip companies allergic to open source?
zeroasic.com · 7 points · 12 comments
Nvidia reportedly halts GeForce RTX 5090 production
tomshardware.com · 8 points · 0 comments
Nvidia's China AI-chip share falls to 34% as Huawei reaches 28%
technode.com · 5 points · 0 comments
Someone on Reddit is running Qwen 27B at ~20 tok/s on a jailbroken PS5's GPU
reddit.com · 11 points · 0 comments
Sonia. Local AI Assistant Linux. 13Gb RAM, No GPU, Skills Supported
github.com · 3 points · 0 comments
ASML's strong orders ease fears AI spending boom is running out of steam
reuters.com · 62 points · 173 comments
BeOS-Inspired Haiku Landed More Hardware Improvements
phoronix.com · 7 points · 0 comments