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 HardwareA $21B 'Kids in Chips' Startup Is Scooping Up Nvidia Talent
wsj.com · 3 points · 2 comments
AirStats – Mac menu bar system monitor, 0.046% CPU idle, MIT
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
I've been doing endurance testing on microSD cards for the last 3 years
reddit.com · 6 points · 0 comments
GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast
arxiv.org · 59 points · 11 comments
Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months, up to 10x the lowest ever tracked prices
tomshardware.com · 78 points · 54 comments
Geekom admits to shipping malware-laced network drivers for AMD mini PCs
tomshardware.com · 8 points · 0 comments
Qwen3.8-27B at 256K on a 24GB RTX PRO 4000 SFF (432 GB/s): 50 tok/s with MTP
piszczek.pl · 26 points · 15 comments
TSMC Uses Old Fabs to Make New Chips [video]
youtube.com · 14 points · 3 comments
Ukraine Finds Nvidia AI Chip in New Russian Missile, HUR Says
kyivpost.com · 8 points · 1 comments
AI is not just one bubble, strategist says – but a 'rolling sequence of bubbles'
fortune.com · 10 points · 10 comments
I built a native app for coding agents with Rust and GPUI
waku.sh · 8 points · 2 comments
AI-Assisted GPU Porting of a 250k Line Legacy Weather Simulation Code
arxiv.org · 55 points · 7 comments
Were Touch Bar's problems software rather than hardware?
unsung.aresluna.org · 10 points · 9 comments
Peer-reviewed study of 443,000 Backblaze drives ranks HGST most reliable
tomshardware.com · 15 points · 4 comments
z486: A 486-Class Pipelined FPGA CPU with Integrated Floating-Point
nand2mario.github.io · 4 points · 1 comments
Talking with Synopsys about the Physics of Chip Design at DAC 2026
chipsandcheese.com · 8 points · 1 comments
A Contract-Grade Verifier for LLM-Generated GPU Kernels
arxiv.org · 14 points · 0 comments
HashAgent – Share an AI agent as a URL, runs locally via WebGPU
hashagent.pages.dev · 40 points · 5 comments
The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and You
sightlessscribbles.com · 10 points · 3 comments
Artifex - Graph Based GPU Harness for AI Agents
gatewai.studio · 5 points · 0 comments
Chestnut – eGPU dock with open-source firmware
hwbusters.com · 14 points · 1 comments
Windows 11's built-in weather app hogs more than 1.2 gigabytes of RAM
tomshardware.com · 17 points · 1 comments
Chicago Mercantile Exchange will list futures contracts for GPU costs
cmegroup.com · 23 points · 5 comments
Samsung is using Claude to verify chip designs. It's not going smoothly
neowin.net · 15 points · 1 comments
What happens when a GPU reads memory?
blog.doubleword.ai · 15 points · 0 comments
AROS for Raspberry Pi 3
amiga-news.de · 8 points · 1 comments
LoongLeak: A Vulnerability Affecting Chinese Loongson 3A5000 and 3A6000 CPUs
loongleakattack.com · 10 points · 0 comments
Nine PBS could lose 70 years of archives after cloud vendor goes defunct
tomshardware.com · 98 points · 47 comments
Nvidia doubles RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell's MSRP to a staggering $16,000
tomshardware.com · 37 points · 18 comments
I wrote the emudev hello world (CHIP-8 emulator in C)
github.com · 4 points · 0 comments