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Chuwi Minibook X
The Minibook X is a 10.5″ x86_64 sub-ultrabook with 16GB RAM, a 512GB NVMe drive, and only one majorly annyoing Linux quirk.
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The most popular blog posts about hardware & electronics on Hacker News. 459 posts.
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More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle
Community updates make Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle more useful, with Tailscale SSH, proxy modes for KOReader, and full TUN mode on some devices. Plus: plugins for Kobo and Pocket Reader.
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Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)
We turned a MacBook into a touchscreen using only $1 of hardware and a little bit of computer vision.
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iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max
Apple announced iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, delivering an advanced pro camera system and improved battery life and performance.
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It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12
My nephew just graduated high school, and wants a laptop. When he decides what computer to buy, price (or more precisely, value) is the most important attribute. Apple's MacBook Neo upended the 'value laptop' equation—Apple's not supposed to be both the cheapest option and the best value... but it seems like that's…
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RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better
Dmitry.GR: I am often asked to explain my distaste for RISC-V. Here it is.
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Fairphone is now officially available in the United States
The Fairphone (Gen. 6+) is here. With more power under the hood, a brand-new color, and more software features, it's everything you love about Fairphone. Plus more.
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CERN levels up with new superconducting karts
The race is on to test new vehicles in the underground Large Hadron Collider tunnel, ahead of major works starting this summer
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The future of Flipper Zero development
We've seen the strong reaction from the community over the idea that we've stopped developing the Flipper Zero firmware. We want to address this and let you know that we've heard all your feedback and have decided to rethink our approach to maintaining the project and engaging with the community.
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IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology
IBM unveiled a major semiconductor breakthrough with the introduction of the world’s first sub-1 nanometer (nm) chip technology, featuring a revolutionary transistor architecture at the 0.7 nm, or 7 angstrom node.
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Big data on the cheapest MacBook
How does the latest entry-level MacBook perform on database workloads? We benchmarked it using ClickBench and TPC-DS SF300. We found that it could complete both workloads, sometimes with surprisingly good results.
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My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii
So today I reached a nice milestone in one of my projects: my work porting classic Mac OS to PowerPC systems with what I affectionately call ArtX chipsets (Nintendo GameCube, Wii, eventually Wii U; the GameCube’s Flipper integrated chipset was very much designed by ArtX as it was effectively finished when ATI acquired…
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The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025)
Ok it’s not exactly $60 but you can get the board itself for that amount of money on eBay if you’re lucky, but on average the price is around $70-$100 (as of November 2025) which is still very cheap considering you can play Cyberpunk 2077 on this.
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I'm Getting into Mesh Networks (Meshtastic, MeshCore, and Reticulum)
I love networking, a lot. So much so that I've run my own ISP since 2024, complete with its own ASN, IPv4/6 address space, fiber optics, etc. However, do this and you quickly realize how reliant you still remain on central service providers. The internet is a mesh,
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Inside the M4 Apple Neural Engine, Part 1: Reverse Engineering
How we bypassed CoreML and talked directly to the hardware
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AMD Ryzen AI Halo – $4k AI Dev Kit
Welcome to LTT Labs - your go-to destination for all things tech. Explore comprehensive test results, insightful commentary, and the latest analysis in hardware.
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A nicer voltmeter clock
Sometimes, electronic circuit design is mostly about wood
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Nintendo announces new product revisions in Europe with replaceable batteries
Starting summer 2026, in preparation for upcoming changes in European battery regulations coming into effect in mid-February 2027, selected Nintendo products in Europe will begin to be replaced on a rolling basis by revisions that contain a user-r
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A 30B Qwen model walks into a Raspberry Pi and runs in real time
ByteShape's device-optimized release showing superior TPS-quality tradeoffs across edge and datacenter hardware.
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Commodore 64 released September 1, 1982
A generation of technology workers grew up using it
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Performance per dollar is getting faster and cheaper
How we served GLM5.2 on AMD MI355X at 2626 tok/s/node and 213 tok/s single stream at over 2x lower cost than Blackwell.
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Hacking IKEA Furniture
When something you want is not available for purchase, well, you can always build it yourself! I recently moved and have a dedicated office room now. I wanted …
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Rack-mount hydroponics
how to grow plants in a server rack
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Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter
Local LLMs can be very very cheap
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Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display
One of nature's beautiful patterns captured in dancing lights
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I'm a USB-C Maximalist
My wife and I recently went on a 7 week holiday around Europe. Although we each took a massive backpack, we wanted to travel fairly lightly. I took a single universal power brick. This little unit was all I needed to charge my various gadgets. It has a hefty USB-C PD (Power Delivery) port for rapid charging of my…
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New Apple TV 4K
Apple today announced the next generation of Apple TV 4K, delivering its most immersive home theater experience yet.
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Eye of Sauron: Long-Range Hidden Spy Camera Detection (2024)
Qibo Zhang and Daibo Liu, Hunan University; Xinyu Zhang, University of California San Diego; Zhichao Cao, Michigan State University; Fanzi Zeng, Hongbo Jiang, and Wenqiang Jin, Hunan University
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I put a real-time 3D shader on the Game Boy Color
I made a Game Boy Color game that renders images in real time. The player controls an orbiting light and spins an object.