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Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3060 in half
This Halloween week, GFN Thursday is delivering a fresh batch of gaming treats. Something wicked this blade comes. S-GAME’s Phantom Blade Zero launches on GeForce...
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The most popular blog posts about hardware & electronics on Hacker News. 1,766 posts.
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Samsung's 60% DRAM price hike signals a new phase of global memory tightening
Samsung’s 60% DRAM price hike tightens supply. Learn how rising DDR5 and DDR4 prices impact buyers, sellers, and used RAM markets in 2026.
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Microsoft's new foldable keyboard
The latest news and stories about how technology is helping people around the world solve problems, innovate and do more each day.
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IBM open sources fully-functional Lego microscope design (2020)
By Katia Moskvitch
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It’s Time to Open Up the GPU
GPUOpen - Our initial announcement from 2016
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Microsoft unveils Majorana 1 quantum processor
Majorana 1 from Microsoft is the world’s first Quantum Processing Unit (QPU) built with a topoconductor. Discover more.
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The battle for the soul of digital freedom taking place inside your printer
Since its founding in the 1930s, Hewlett-Packard has been synonymous with innovation, and many's the engineer who had cause to praise its workhorse oscillators, minicomputers, servers, and PCs. But since the turn of this century, the company's changed its name to HP and its focus to sleazy ways to...
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Apple unveils new Mac Studio and brings Apple Silicon to Mac Pro
Apple today introduced the new Mac Studio and Mac Pro, the two most powerful Macs ever made.
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iPhone Performance Degrades as Battery Ages
A Reddit post from last week has sparked a discussion regarding iPhone performance as a function of battery age. While we expect battery capacity to decrease as batteries age, we expect processor performance to stay the same. However, users with older iPhones with lower-than-expected Geekbench 4 scores have reported…
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Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era
An overview of Google’s eighth generation TPUs, built for the agentic era.
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Nvidia CEO Introduces Nvidia Ampere Architecture, Nvidia A100 GPU
NVIDIA Corporate Blog Post Archive
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Ironwood: The first Google TPU for the age of inference
We’re introducing Ironwood, our seventh-generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) designed to power the age of generative AI inference.
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What every programmer should know about SSDs
A blog by and for database architects.
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Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive if internal drive failed
CCC 5.1.27 and CCC 6 can make bootable copies of the system on Intel and Apple Silicon Macs (11.3+) right now, and we'll continue to support that functiona...
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Quick Start Guide for Flipper Zero
Many backers have already received their Flipper Zeros, and their number is growing by the day. At the time of writing, 23 thousand devices have already been shipped! We're getting a ton of feedback from users and it's amazing. Unfortunately, there is still a considerable number of backers who are
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Teardown: Casper’s Clever Little Nightlight
We took a look at what’s going on inside the mattress peddler’s surprisingly complicated nightlight with a gorgeous user experience.
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What is the best hard drive?
Check out the latest Hard Drive Stats. It was one year ago that I first blogged about the failure rates of specific models of hard drives, so now is a
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Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs
High-bandwidth memory (HBM) accounts for 63% of AI chip component costs, up from 52% in Q1 2024. Epoch AI's breakdown of component cost shifts across major chip designers.
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Blood oxygen monitoring returning to Apple Watch in the US
Apple will introduce a redesigned Blood Oxygen feature for some Apple Watch Series 9, Series 10, and Apple Watch Ultra 2 users.
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YC for Hardware
As YC has grown, we’ve funded more and more hardware companies. Hardware companies have very different needs from pure software companies, and we’re delighted to announce a number of new resources for YC hardware companies. First, there are a number of new deals for our hardware startups–across-the-board discounts &…
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A tale of an impossible bug: big.LITTLE and caching
When someone says multi-core, we unconsciously think SMP. That worked out well for us until recently when ARM announced big.LITTLE. ARM’s big.LITTLE architecture is the first mass produced AMP architecture and as we’ll see next, it raises the bar for how hard multi-core programing is.
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Coming soon: Fedora on Lenovo laptops
Today, I’m excited to share some big news with you—Fedora Workstation will be available on Lenovo ThinkPad laptops! Yes, I know, many of us already run a Fedora operating system on a Lenovo system, but this is different. You’ll soon be able to get Fedora pre-installed by selecting it as you customize your purchase…
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Why do electronic components have such odd values? (2021)
If you've been around electronics for a while, you've probably noticed that components like resistors, capacitors, zener diodes and inductors come in some odd values. Looking at the chart above, there seems to be no clear rationale behind the values, but there is a pattern. 47kΩ resistors and 22μF capacitors are…
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BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive
2021 > PHEV BMW iBMUCP PHEV Post-Crash Recovery — When EU engineering becomes a synonym for “unrepairable” + “generating waste”. If you own a BMW PHEV — or if you’re an insurance company — every pothole, every curb impact, small or large incideng and even any rabbit jumping out of a bush represents a potential…
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IO Devices and Latency
Take an interactive journey through the history of IO devices, and learn how IO device latency affects performance.
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Build a Low-Cost Drone Using ESP32
Use ESP32 to build a budget-friendly drone from scratch.
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Accelerated PyTorch Training on M1 Mac
In collaboration with the Metal engineering team at Apple, we are excited to announce support for GPU-accelerated PyTorch training on Mac. Until now, PyTorch training on Mac only leveraged the...