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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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What happens when a GPU reads memory

blog.doubleword.ai · 108 points · 19 comments

I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip

pointinthecloud.com · 154 points · 49 comments

Getting the Steam Deck LCD working on a Raspberry Pi

jeffgeerling.com · 7 points · 1 comments

BoardLab – Browser-based ESP32/Arduino simulator with real SPI displays

boardlab.dev · 3 points · 0 comments

We Rebuilt the Linux MicroVM Stack on Apple Silicon

encore.dev · 29 points · 85 comments

Protesters haul a guillotine to city council meeting about an AI data center

tomshardware.com · 19 points · 6 comments

How did you write code on restricted hardware?

3 points · 6 comments

GPU VulnDB – open vulnerability database for GPU infrastructure

gpuvulndb.org · 2 points · 0 comments

AI at Home Part 2: Multi-GPU Drifting

jdagostino.github.io · 28 points · 1 comments

Compute.cx is simple (modal.com like) interface for on-demand GPUs

compute.cx · 6 points · 0 comments

A faithful port of Quake to the browser

willeastcott.github.io · 2 points · 1 comments

Google strikes $12B AI chip deal with Marvell to develop TPUs

ft.com · 7 points · 0 comments

Samsung hikes chipmaking prices by up to 15% for new orders, on demand spike

reuters.com · 6 points · 0 comments

PINE64 halts their open-source hardware manufacturing until the AI bubble bursts

hackster.io · 15 points · 1 comments

On-chip solar power source for self-powered smart microsensors.Bulk CMOS process

nature.com · 3 points · 0 comments

ComputeFence – preflight checks for rented GPU training jobs

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Cerebras chips rival Nvidia GPUs for AI [video]

youtube.com · 4 points · 1 comments

Nvidia's new financial strategy does not compute

theverge.com · 11 points · 2 comments

Running Doom on Canon EOS 550D

tomshardware.com · 3 points · 1 comments

λλ: A Programming Language for Silicon Photonics

dl.acm.org · 91 points · 18 comments

PlugClaw – Private AI agent hardware for any phone or PC

plugos.net · 5 points · 6 comments

Cerebras CS-4 rack systems juice chips for every last drop of AI performance

theregister.com · 4 points · 1 comments

Stanford's deterministic CUDA kernel verifier

2026.splashcon.org · 4 points · 1 comments

Geekom admits to shipping malware-laced network drivers for AMD mini PCs

tomshardware.com · 7 points · 0 comments

PantheonGPU – GPU health testing and AI workload benchmarking

pantheongpu.com · 11 points · 0 comments

Craton Bolt – A Pure Rust, JIT-Compiled GPU SQL Engine

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Launch HN: machine0 (YC S26) – Persistent CPU and GPU VMs from the CLI

machine0.io · 18 points · 44 comments

A $21B 'Kids in Chips' Startup Is Scooping Up Nvidia Talent

wsj.com · 5 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