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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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Sharecoin – GPU fork of Bitcoin with a randomness beacon

github.com · 5 points · 0 comments

PartSense – Smart inventory and BOM management for hardware labs

partsense.app · 3 points · 0 comments

RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB

gpusolutions.net · 5 points · 2 comments

GFQL: Run Cypher on Polars, CPU and GPU, no database required

graphistry.com · 6 points · 0 comments

A CPU Made of Atoms: IBM's Breakthrough 0.7nm Transistors [video]

youtube.com · 4 points · 0 comments

WebGPU Unleashed: A Practical Tutorial

shi-yan.github.io · 34 points · 1 comments

Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS

discuss.haiku-os.org · 276 points · 52 comments

AMD's Instinct MI455X: Aiming for the Sun

chipsandcheese.com · 35 points · 9 comments

AMD calls CUDA a 'non-event'

pcgamer.com · 12 points · 0 comments

AMD's 256-core Epyc 9996 'Venice' claims up to a 3.4x jump over Intel Xeon

tomshardware.com · 17 points · 9 comments

AMD's Instinct MI455X: Aiming for the Sun

chipsandcheese.com · 10 points · 0 comments

WatchMachineGo – A visualizer to show hardware performing LLM inference

watchmachinego.com · 2 points · 1 comments

Learn WebGPU for C++

eliemichel.github.io · 69 points · 10 comments

Ray tracing massive amounts of animated geometry using tetrahedral cages

gpuopen.com · 60 points · 7 comments

Amorality and greed at Silicon Valley's favourite university

economist.com · 49 points · 7 comments

Using a Gaming PC's RTX 5070 from a separate Linux workstation

stephenkrings.com · 28 points · 18 comments

Building the Grace Cathedral experience

blog.playcanvas.com · 23 points · 3 comments

Computable – Buy, sell, and redeem GPU for the exact weeks you want

getcomputable.com · 45 points · 26 comments

Running Doom on Our Custom CPU and Going Viral

armaangomes.com · 131 points · 37 comments

Intel Starts Shipping High-NA EUV Silicon

morethanmoore.substack.com · 246 points · 114 comments

TensorRT-LLM running natively on Windows (no WSL)

baremetalrt.ai · 2 points · 0 comments

I replaced Whisper with Parakeet TDT on a $55/month CPU server

vidclean.net · 2 points · 0 comments

Chinese hackers reverse engineer NVIDIA GPU to work on a custom PCB with NVLink

old.reddit.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Tokenstead, find AI models for your hardware

tokenstead.ai · 3 points · 0 comments

Former Intel employee sues over firing, saying disability prevented him from RTO

oregonlive.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Samsung chip division's 1-year profit beat past 40 years of profits, combined

tomshardware.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Book: RISC-V System-on-Chip Design

amazon.com · 7 points · 0 comments

Slughorn, Slug font/glyph render lib for OpenGL/OSG/Vulkan/GPU APIs (MIT lic))

alphapixeldev.com · 5 points · 1 comments

AI Innovators Adopt Nvidia Vera – Why Max Single-Threaded CPU at Scale Matters

blogs.nvidia.com · 3 points · 4 comments

Power company hikes data center bills by 30%, cuts residential costs by 1.3%

tomshardware.com · 7 points · 1 comments