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The most popular blog posts about hardware & electronics on Hacker News. 264 posts.
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
After several years with my Dell Latitude E6400 I was searching for a new, more powerful Linux machine for my coding and performance tweaking tasks. And although the Dell XPS line sounded interesti…
Some of you have asked about my exact Hackintosh spec, so here it is. I built my Hackintosh in March/April 2014, after finally deciding that the Mac Pro was too expensive and didn’t really fit my needs. The spec I was going to go for was an 8-core model, with 32 gigs of RAM, a 1 TB flash
The Nintendo Switch system is a major evolution of the Wii platform. It’s both a home console and a handheld mobile device. We tore it down.
A couple of years ago, I was heavily involved in analysing and reporting on the massive VTech hack [https://www.troyhunt.com/when-children-are-breached-inside/], the one where millions of records were exposed including kids' names, genders, ages, photos and the relationship to parents' records which included their
Programing in Clojure and ClojureScript
What do you do when you cannot copy text between computers due to lack of internet connectivity? I built a modem using the Web Audio API, allowing data transfer via audio.
I’m excited to announce that Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is the first cloud provider to offer the next generation Intel Xeon processor, codenamed Skylake.
Intel Newsroom delivers the latest news, announcements, and updates. Stay informed on Intel innovations.
Jeff Atwood, perhaps the most widely read programming blogger, has a post that makes a case against using ECC memory . My read is that his major points are:
Recently, a team of researchers at the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) dev
Want to read about the acceleration we are seeing in our society in the area of mobility? Read our new book ‘Forward’. Updated June 9, 2020. Today, Tesla Motors published their 2019 Imp…
A look at the impressive real-world power efficiency of Apple's newer MacBook Pro models and what it means for battery life.
Streaming a webcam to a deep learning model the hacker’s way
How I modified DOSBox and the original Microsoft Flight Simulator 4 from 1989 to run on my immersive multi-display flight simulator set up.
I've been restoring a Xerox Alto minicomputer from the 1970s and figured it would be interesting to see if it could mine bitcoins. I coded u...
A blog about Rust and embedded stuff
Introducing the Dice-O-Matic mark II, now generating the die rolls on GamesByEmail.com. It is a 7 foot tall, 104 pound, dice-eating monster, capable of generating 1.3 million rolls a day.
A beginner's introduction to Software Defined Radio (SDR) and RF signal analysis, covering theory, tools, and visual signal characteristics.
Alexei's pile o'stuff, featuring writing on software development, travel, photography, and more.
