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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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A fresh look at CPU silent data corruption in modern data centers

cacm.acm.org · 52 points · 1 comments

Finding zombies in our systems: A real-world story of CPU bottlenecks

medium.com · 67 points · 11 comments

GPUs could explode to multiple TB with new storage-inspired memory tech

theregister.com · 32 points · 9 comments

Running a 35B LLM at 128K Context, Full Speed, on €870 of Used Hardware

medium.com · 3 points · 1 comments

PaperOS: A native Linux E Ink OS running on BOOX hardware

reddit.com · 15 points · 1 comments

The Silicon Valley Founder Meat Grinder

zaksa.zip · 235 points · 154 comments

Cracking under pressure: silicon fractures on ATLAS strip tracker petals

arxiv.org · 5 points · 0 comments

Linux 7.3 to Allow Tuning AMD P-State Dynamic EPP with per CPU Core Granularity

phoronix.com · 6 points · 0 comments

Amazon spent $1.8M using Claude for menial coding task, went 860% over budget

tomshardware.com · 8 points · 1 comments

China's tech advances are causing chaos from Silicon Valley to the White House

theguardian.com · 10 points · 1 comments

Minimal LLM Post-Training Experiments on an 8GB GPU (SFT, DPO, GRPO)

github.com · 21 points · 0 comments

China begins mass production of DUV chipmaking machines in major breakthrough

tomshardware.com · 7 points · 1 comments

Looking inside a 1970s PROM chip that stores data in microscopic fuses (2019)

righto.com · 37 points · 7 comments

How to measure the performance of a quantum computer

ibm.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Hygon Reveals 512-Thread CPU and AI GPU to Rival Intel Xeon and Nvidia

ubergizmo.com · 17 points · 3 comments

New Defcon Badges Pack a Unique Open-Source Chip That Doubles as a Security Key

wired.com · 67 points · 11 comments

16-bit Serial Homebrew CPU – 2023

jiristepanovsky.cz · 7 points · 0 comments

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

bloomberg.com · 114 points · 76 comments

Learn how chips are made with this Rollercoaster Tycoon-inspired animation

laurentiugabriel.github.io · 5 points · 0 comments

RosaicLabs, Atom RTL, and 32-Tile AMX: Trying to Piece Together a x86 Puzzle

chipsandcheese.com · 8 points · 0 comments

AMD Posts Linux Patches for HDMI 2.1 Auto Low-Latency Mode "ALLM" & VRR

phoronix.com · 10 points · 0 comments

The Impending, Inescapable Deluge of A.I

nytimes.com · 4 points · 2 comments

An online Live face swap app, no GPU need

livefaceswap.ai · 3 points · 1 comments

First CHERIoT Silicon

cheriot.org · 7 points · 1 comments

Metal-graph: Metal-native graph analytics for Apple Silicon

github.com · 7 points · 0 comments

TypeStax: A type scale generator with vintage audio hardware interface

typestax.com · 45 points · 20 comments

I was able to run tiberian sun on cncnet on an M4 MacBook Pro

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Solving poker in custom WebGPU kernels

phulin.me · 72 points · 21 comments

Tilery-VM – run Nvidia cuTile GPU kernels on a CPU, no GPU required

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

SDL_GPU minimal, single-header, high-performance 2D graphics painting library

github.com · 65 points · 30 comments