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

github.com · 287 points · 41 comments

$580M undersea cable rerouted to avoid the grave of Dobby the House Elf

tomshardware.com · 96 points · 103 comments

Rust SIMD on the GPU

vectorware.com · 56 points · 115 comments

Launch HN: Stoa Markets (YC S26) – A Marketplace for GPUs and AI Servers

stoaexchange.com · 56 points · 51 comments

Extreme 220GHz+Broadband Silicon Capacitor X2SC 0201M 22nF BV11

pim.murata.com · 72 points · 34 comments

Controversial Bitcoin fork BIP-110 mines two blocks, then stops

coindesk.com · 10 points · 1 comments

A tiny LLM running at 21,000 tok/s on a $250 FPGA (Live Demo)

mikeayles.com · 79 points · 33 comments

How do you sell a CPU design when the instruction set is free?

siliconimist.com · 7 points · 0 comments

As AI grips world, the thrill of collecting vintage computers is growing

apnews.com · 22 points · 9 comments

Weather balloon to the stratosphere with a Raspberry Pi computer

github.com · 7 points · 0 comments

Sam Zeloof Home Chip Fab: Silicon IC Fabrication in the Garage – Hackaday [video]

youtube.com · 8 points · 2 comments

Noctua finds more than half of PC cases misstate CPU cooler clearances

tomshardware.com · 37 points · 5 comments

FCC moves to ban Lidar-equipped foreign drones from US

tomshardware.com · 97 points · 123 comments

Analyzing data from Silicon Valley ventures and founders prosecuted for fraud

pubsonline.informs.org · 198 points · 99 comments

Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy

techcrunch.com · 210 points · 283 comments

The Systemic Collapse of the AI Industry: Ideology, Hardware, and CapEx Crisis

5 points · 0 comments

Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2

oskrim.github.io · 165 points · 106 comments

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

halfhill.com · 105 points · 86 comments

Fixing optical computing jitter via fluid dynamics in GPU registers

github.com · 2 points · 1 comments

Coldcard hardware wallet firmware flaw sees 2k BTC (~$130M) drained

web3isgoinggreat.com · 16 points · 2 comments

Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs

github.com · 53 points · 106 comments

RAM pricing has risen to normalized 2007 levels

tomshardware.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Does Silicon Valley Dream of Philip K Dick?

ft.com · 11 points · 1 comments

Samsung debuts three new memory technologies – zHBM, zNAND-O, and BV-NAND

tomshardware.com · 20 points · 0 comments

How Ham Radio Made Silicon Valley

cooperkramer.substack.com · 7 points · 1 comments

Trump orders new 15% tariff on key material for solar panels and microchips

theguardian.com · 9 points · 0 comments

Cuprate – Alternative Monero node software written in Rust syncs 2x faster

reddit.com · 4 points · 1 comments

New TONTOU CPU attack bypasses Spectre v2 fixes, leaks Linux password hashes

bleepingcomputer.com · 11 points · 0 comments

Pokémon Emerald Ported to Raspberry Pi Pico 2

github.com · 40 points · 28 comments

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

theregister.com · 369 points · 722 comments