OLED iPad Mini(apple.com)
52 points by etothet | 40 comments
Apple Store pre-order page for the new iPad mini with A20 Pro chip, starting at $699, with storage, glass, connectivity and accessory options.
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The new iPad mini(apple.com)
33 points by soheilpro | 13 comments
Apple press release announcing a redesigned iPad mini with an 8.5-inch OLED display, A20 Pro chip, IP67 rating, N1 and C2 chips, and iPadOS 27.
Behind the scenes at the NeXT Computer office(exhibits.stanford.edu)
180 points by Austin_Conlon | 100 comments
Stanford Libraries exhibit gallery of Doug Menuez photographs documenting daily life inside NeXT Computer, Inc.
iPhone Duo Teardown(ifixit.com)
103 points by kripy | 98 comments
iFixit teardown of Apple's folding iPhone Duo, examining its repairability, nano-texture crease-hiding display, oval subpixels, hinge design, and costly screen repairs.
Show HN: A Truly Modular Keyboard(github.com)
218 points by NotARoomba | 70 comments
GitHub repository for Keybytes, an open-hardware modular keyboard where each key is its own PCB with a RISC-V MCU, connected via pogo pins and magnetic cases.
Google has officially turned these Nest thermostats back into dumb thermostats(makeuseof.com)
42 points by gnabgib | 32 comments
MakeUseOf article explaining how Google ended cloud support for first- and second-gen Nest Learning Thermostats, leaving them as manual thermostats, and mentions an open-source fix.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: VCF Southwest 2026, but Edited on Silicon Graphics for '90s TV [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/10/25/ab42a469-f261-4738-8ac8-96631bffbce2.jpg)
VCF Southwest 2026, but Edited on Silicon Graphics for '90s TV [video](youtube.com)
62 points by zdw | 14 comments
YouTube video by Wave Design showing footage from Vintage Computer Festival Southwest 2026 edited into a '90s-style TV reel using SGI workstations and period video hardware.
Neural chip decodes interactions between brain regions(actu.epfl.ch)
131 points by giuliomagnifico | 47 comments
EPFL news article on LogSync, a low-power implantable neural chip that measures cross-region brain synchrony to classify cognitive and emotional states for adaptive deep brain stimulation.
The Curse of Soldered RAM(blog.hardill.me.uk)
93 points by gsky | 98 comments
Blog post on diagnosing faulty soldered RAM in a Lenovo X1 Carbon with Memtest86+ and working around it via the Linux memmap kernel parameter on Fedora.
GPU-unlock: FP/BF16 instruction issue rate on Nvidia 3000's cards(github.com)
319 points by fragebogen | 74 comments
GitHub repo for a Linux kernel module that unlocks full FP16/BF16 tensor instruction issue rates on Nvidia RTX 3000-series GA10x cards before the Nvidia driver loads.
Sony Retires Its Last 4K Blu-ray Player in Japan, PS5 Is All That's Left(techpowerup.com)
54 points by speckx | 33 comments
TechPowerUp news article reporting Sony discontinued its last standalone 4K Blu-ray player in Japan, leaving the disc-equipped PS5 as its only 4K disc player there.
Time Nuts (2005)(leapsecond.com)
29 points by jacquesm | 29 comments
Info page for Time-Nuts, a mailing list for amateurs interested in precise time and frequency, with subscription details, resources, and history.
Reverse engineering a Beyblade launch tracker(blog.simone.computer)
40 points by syx | 4 comments
Blog post reverse engineering the Beyblade X Beybattle Pass launch tracker, decoding its Bluetooth LE payloads for launch RPM, counters and high scores.
Show HN: Making a smart TV dumb and then smart(github.com)
69 points by animalhot | 38 comments
GitHub repo for r2d2-tv, a local home screen, private remote browser, and push-to-talk voice assistant that replaces vendor software on rooted LG webOS TVs.
Recreate the Apollo Guidance Computer(raspberrypi.com)
49 points by Brajeshwar | 5 comments
Raspberry Pi blog post on Michael Newton's Recreate Apollo project, a 3D-printed 1:1 DSKY replica running the Virtual AGC emulator on a Raspberry Pi.
I Built a Stereo Vision Board for Hardware Hackers(rootkitlabs.com)
121 points by machinehum | 19 comments
A blog post describing the design of a low-cost stereo vision board built on the Rockchip RV1103 SoC, covering the PCB, Buildroot Linux, and SAD-based depth processing.
XPS 16 Creator Edition Laptop(dell.com)
16 points by mudil | 35 comments
Dell's product page for the XPS 16 Creator Edition laptop, which returned an Akamai Access Denied error instead of loading.
Making a VGA Driver in SystemVerilog(lukaswerner.com)
56 points by derHackerman | 15 comments
A student's blog post with interactive visuals explaining how they built a VGA driver in SystemVerilog on a DE10-Lite FPGA for a digital logic lab, including image display with transparency.
Why my Asus laptop kept rebooting after sleep and how to fix it(idiallo.com)
52 points by surprisetalk | 47 comments
A blog post explaining how an Asus Zenbook Pro 17's reboots after sleep were traced to the MediaTek MT7922 Wi-Fi driver and fixed by disabling its power saving.
The Secret Life of Circuits is now in stock everywhere(blog.coredump.cx)
85 points by surprisetalk | 20 comments
Blog post by lcamtuf announcing his electronics book The Secret Life of Circuits is now available on Amazon and other retailers, with a plea for reader reviews.
ThinkPad I9990303 Error Catch-22(os2museum.com)
33 points by userbinator | 5 comments
OS/2 Museum blog post on fixing a ThinkPad 750C I9990303 error by patching IBM's BIOS flash utility to bypass power management checks and reflash corrupted firmware.
Putting Linux on my RTX Spark laptop because I don't have a Microsoft account(josie.lol)
234 points by pfeifferj | 120 comments
A personal blog post describing installing Arch Linux on an ASUS ProArt P16 laptop with an NVIDIA RTX Spark ARM64 chip, with setup patches and benchmarks against Windows.
The Robot I Didn't Expect to Build(spectrum.ieee.org)
57 points by bojackh | 38 comments
IEEE Spectrum feature by Agility Robotics co-founder Jonathan Hurst on the design path from ATRIAS and Cassie to the bulky, commercial Digit 5 warehouse humanoid.
Ukraine carries out aerial drone evacuation of a wounded soldier(dailymail.com)
108 points by theflyingelvis | 38 comments
Daily Mail news article reporting that Ukraine used an aerial drone to evacuate a wounded soldier from the frontline.
The Rise and Fall of the Plasma Screen(construction-physics.com)
38 points by surprisetalk | 23 comments
A Construction Physics essay tracing the history of plasma display screens from the PLATO system in the 1960s through their rise in TVs and eventual loss to LCD.
One Manhattan power room took down FAA air traffic control in 1991(matthorn.io)
40 points by spectraldrift | 7 comments
Blog post recounting how a 1991 power failure at AT&T's 33 Thomas Street facility in Manhattan knocked out FAA air traffic control links, disrupting 1,174 flights.
Honey, I shrunk the TV(cakehonolulu.github.io)
9 points by cakehonolulu | 19 comments
Blog post about working around Samsung Q-Symphony's inability to disable TV speakers on a 2025 TV by setting max volume to 0 in the hidden service menu.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: I built a drone with only one motor [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/10/19/5b17e313-c36e-4365-9533-ae8a8b432408.jpg)
I built a drone with only one motor [video](youtube.com)
624 points by hakonjdjohnsen | 139 comments
YouTube video by Joshua Bird showing how he built and flew a drone that uses only a single motor.
ZX Spectrum Next Laptop(dorchester3d.com)
108 points by utopcell | 19 comments
Blog post from Dorchester 3D describing a homemade second-version laptop case build for the ZX Spectrum Next dev board.
The Annotated VT100 Firmware (2022)(vt100.net)
65 points by Aleksandr_NFA | 3 comments
An annotated disassembly of the original 8 KiB DEC VT100 terminal firmware, with sections on methodology, bugs and oddities, and an 8080 coverage checker.
Silicon-photonics-enabled chip-based 3D printer (2024)(nature.com)
4 points by peter_d_sherman | 0 comments
Open-access 2024 Light: Science & Applications paper presenting a chip-based 3D printer that uses silicon photonics to project light for resin curing.
The Intel 8087 chip: floating-point addition and subtraction(righto.com)
102 points by pwg | 33 comments
Ken Shirriff blog post examining the Intel 8087 coprocessor's microcode and circuitry for floating-point addition and subtraction, including special cases.
RepRapMicron(github.com)
436 points by RobotToaster | 69 comments
GitHub wiki for µRepRap (RepRapMicron), an open-source project to build a self-replicating 3D printer capable of micron and sub-micron fabrication from common materials.
Open MicroManipulator – A sub-micrometer 3D motion control plattform(github.com)
209 points by _Microft | 16 comments
GitHub repository for Open MicroManipulator, an open-source sub-micrometer 3D motion control platform with construction files, electronics, and firmware.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: Making Solar Panels with a Microwave [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/10/20/d0c24d10-4ef5-497d-b845-e709744b58ac.jpg)
Making Solar Panels with a Microwave [video](youtube.com)
60 points by jackdoe | 8 comments
A 13-minute YouTube video by Dr.Semiconductor demonstrating how to make solar panels using a microwave as part of the fabrication process.
Refurb weekend II: Alpha Micro Eagle 300 and friends(oldvcr.blogspot.com)
17 points by classichasclass | 1 comments
Old VCR blog post on refurbishing an Alpha Micro Eagle 300, a 68EC030-based multiuser AMOS system, and related Alpha Micro machines.
FingerWorks iGesture Pad (2005)(uk.pcmag.com)
12 points by codeulike | 8 comments
A 2005 PCMag first-look review of the FingerWorks iGesture Pad, a multi-touch gesture-recognizing input pad.
Show HN: Esp32sim – Run ESP32 firmware in the browser(github.com)
183 points by joakimeriksson | 34 comments
GitHub repository for esp32sim, an open-source ESP32 emulator that runs real firmware locally or in the browser without physical hardware.
Show HN: I got tired of btop not seeing my Mac's chip, so I built siltop(github.com)
12 points by cloaky233 | 14 comments
GitHub repository for siltop, a Rust terminal system monitor for Apple Silicon Macs showing power, GPU, per-core clocks and temperatures without sudo.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: Tesla Unveils 'Flying' Roadster with SpaceX Thrusters [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/10/16/12cdf499-e400-4131-afaf-dbe4cfbbe4b1.jpg)
Tesla Unveils 'Flying' Roadster with SpaceX Thrusters [video](youtube.com)
53 points by skadamat | 41 comments
YouTube video from VideoFromSpace showing Tesla's unveiling of a 'flying' Roadster that uses SpaceX thrusters.
What was a Token Ring network?(dfarq.homeip.net)
103 points by ibobev | 79 comments
Blog post from The Silicon Underground explaining the history of IBM's Token Ring networking technology and its competition with Ethernet in the 1980s and 1990s.
Qualcomm Legally Proves Arm Breached Its License, Wins $2(techpowerup.com)
23 points by LorenDB | 5 comments
TechPowerUp news article reporting a Delaware jury found Arm breached its architecture license with Qualcomm, awarding Qualcomm $2 in nominal damages.
Tesla's new Roadster makes a flying debut, hitting 60 MPH in under a second(foxbusiness.com)
54 points by nsoonhui | 50 comments
Fox Business article reporting on the debut of Tesla's new Roadster, claimed to fly and reach 60 mph in under a second.
Tesla Roadster(tesla.com)
1578 points by shekhar101 | 2862 comments
Tesla's product page for the Roadster electric sports car; the capture shows an Akamai Access Denied error instead of the page.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: Is Liquid Metal Killing Our PCs? Scientific Analysis and a 2-Year Test [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/10/16/54d4f6fb-da99-4ad6-ab53-d581e8c92f6b.jpg)
Is Liquid Metal Killing Our PCs? Scientific Analysis and a 2-Year Test [video](youtube.com)
67 points by zdw | 42 comments
A der8auer YouTube video analyzing how liquid metal thermal compound reacts with PC components, including results from a two-year test.
Laptop Based on 6502 CPU(maddox.pro)
184 points by nanochess | 94 comments
A personal tech blog post describing a homebrew laptop built around the 6502 CPU; the captured view shows only the blog header and archives.
New Withings Users Must Pay $99/Year for Apple Health Syncing(support.withings.com)
372 points by johnbehnke | 253 comments
A Withings support forum post complaining that Apple Health sync now requires a $99/year subscription for new accounts.
E Ink Kaleido 4(eink.com)
167 points by Perroboc | 98 comments
E Ink press release announcing Kaleido 4, the latest version of its color ePaper platform; the page returned a 504 gateway timeout when captured.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: How gyroscopes got so small [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/10/16/17655563-d880-4907-8113-2d2abab86bcd.jpg)
How gyroscopes got so small [video](youtube.com)
74 points by surprisetalk | 34 comments
A Primal Space YouTube video explaining the history and engineering of how gyroscopes were miniaturized, starting from a 1914 Paris aviation demonstration.
The Commodore 64 hardware simulator: break chips and pins, see the results(github.com)
219 points by antirez | 34 comments
GitHub repository for antirez's c64-hw-simulator, a pin-level Commodore 64 hardware simulator that lets users break chips and pins and observe the results.
16-bit fully functional DIY magnetic core memory(youtube.com)
58 points by oliculipolicula | 18 comments
A YouTube video from Japanese channel dydt製作所 demonstrating a DIY, fully functional tiny 16-bit magnetic core memory board built with 1970s East German cores.
Vintage Cassettes: 1963-2010(vintagecassettes.com)
60 points by austinallegro | 9 comments
Vintage Cassettes is a collector site cataloging photos of 2,669 sealed compact cassettes from 1963-2010, organized by brand and year, with tape history resources.
I electrified my push scooter with a power drill(eddieabbondanz.io)
161 points by speckx | 55 comments
A personal blog post describing converting a Razor A5 Lux push scooter to electric power using a cordless drill, welding, 3D-printed parts, and off-the-shelf components.
Almost every dumbphone worth knowing about(slowerliving.club)
6 points by speckx | 3 comments
A catalog page on slowerliving.club listing and comparing dumbphones and minimalist feature phones.
ASML's strong orders ease fears AI spending boom is running out of steam(reuters.com)
153 points by tartoran | 145 comments
Reuters article on ASML's strong quarterly orders and sales forecast easing fears of a slowdown in AI spending; page showed a device verification screen.
Making 1,750 programmable PCB badges for Canada's biggest hackathon(va3ndf.com)
42 points by va3ndf | 10 comments
A blog post recounting the design and production of 1,750 programmable PCB name badges for a large Canadian hackathon, including problems encountered.
Nvidia's first GPU: GeForce 256(dfarq.homeip.net)
60 points by ibobev | 39 comments
A Silicon Underground blog post recounting Nvidia's October 1999 release of the GeForce 256, which it marketed as the first GPU.
AI-assisted PCB design for KiCad 10(github.com)
115 points by ofrzeta | 42 comments
GitHub repository for Konnect, a native KiCad 10 plugin in Rust exposing 217 PCB design tools to Claude or other LLMs for AI-assisted design.
Show HN: A 3D Configurator for Macropads(npad.ngrok.dev)
4 points by alexandermkinn | 3 comments
A web-based 3D configurator from ngrok for customizing a six-key macropad with a knob, compatible with Momokai Aurora macropads.
New Apple TV 4K(apple.com)
320 points by corvad | 588 comments
Apple Newsroom press release announcing a new Apple TV 4K with a more conversational Siri AI, faster performance, and improved home theater features.
Apple HomeView(apple.com)
737 points by etothet | 864 comments
Apple product page announcing HomeView, a smart home display on a speaker base, available starting November 13.
It took me nine years to hack my Xbox 360(kennedn.com)
155 points by kennedn | 42 comments
A personal blog post recounting the author's years-long effort to hack an Xbox 360 using a Matrix CoolRunner Rev D glitcher modchip.
Apple routed a graphite pipe through the iPhone Duo's hinge to dissipate heat(pcmag.com)
183 points by giuliomagnifico | 134 comments
PCMag article with an exclusive interview of Apple engineers explaining the cooling system in the iPhone Duo and iPhone 18 Pro, including a graphite pipe through the hinge.
I turned my unused Kindle into a photo frame with GPT-6 Astra(nirajrajgor.com)
133 points by nirajrajgor | 90 comments
A personal blog post describing how the author used the GPT-6 Astra AI agent to jailbreak an unused Kindle and turn it into a photo frame.
Intel D270 GPU AI Accelerator–Up to 480 GB LPDDR5X(intel.com)
293 points by hurricanepootis | 168 comments
Intel product page for its data center GPU D-series AI inference accelerators, including the D270 with up to 480 GB LPDDR5X memory.
Rebuilding the Original Odhner Model 127 Pinwheel Calculator(johnwolff.au)
15 points by goshtasb | 0 comments
Step-by-step guide from John Wolff's Web Museum to disassembling, cleaning, and reassembling an Original-Odhner Model 127 pinwheel mechanical calculator.
Deep dive into Azure Maia 300 architecture(azure.microsoft.com)
16 points by azhenley | 2 comments
Microsoft Azure blog post giving a technical deep dive into the architecture of the Azure Maia 300 AI accelerator chip.
Turn a WiFi 7 Router into a 320Msps Software Defined Radio Receiver(github.com)
397 points by djfergus | 107 comments
GitHub repository w1700k-sdr with firmware and host tools that turn a WiFi 7 router into a 320 Msps software defined radio receiver.
Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age(bbc.com)
395 points by scrlk | 437 comments
BBC News article by Theo Leggett on Citroen reviving its classic 2CV car as a modern electric vehicle.
Running the unmodified Linux amdgpu driver on an iPad(github.com)
85 points by joshcsimmons | 19 comments
GitHub repository for LemonSeed Studio, an iPad IDE running local LLM inference on an AMD GPU over Thunderbolt using the Linux amdgpu driver embedded in DriverKit.
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GameBoy on E-Paper ESP32 at 30FPS [video](youtube.com)
110 points by pizzaiolo | 30 comments
YouTube video from Bo Made It showing a Game Boy emulator running on an ESP32 with an e-paper display at 30 frames per second.
Ask HN: Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed?
113 points by Ixander | 124 comments
Ask HN post gauging interest in buying routers with DD-WRT pre-installed, comparing existing options like OpenWrt One, GL.iNet Flint and pfSense boxes.
PSPi 6 – Raspberry Pi in a PSP(github.com)
125 points by therepanic | 12 comments
GitHub repository for PSPi Version 6, an open hardware project that fits a Raspberry Pi into a Sony PSP shell, with board files and firmware.
Shape-sensing sheet digitally tracks its own movement as it bends and twists(news.mit.edu)
22 points by bookofjoe | 0 comments
MIT News article about a flexible shape-sensing sheet that digitally tracks its own deformation as it bends and twists.
When Ldaxr Doesn't Work: Exclusive Accesses and Cacheability on AArch64(joelsiks.com)
17 points by joelsiks | 2 comments
Blog post explaining why the ldaxr exclusive load instruction can fail on AArch64 depending on memory types, attributes, and cacheability, via a spin lock example.
Cyril Hilsum invented the flat-screen displays that hold us in thrall(economist.com)
10 points by sohkamyung | 1 comments
An Economist obituary of Cyril Hilsum, the physicist credited with inventing the flat-screen display technology; the capture shows only a Cloudflare verification page.
The RAM shortage is bringing back DDR4(theverge.com)
262 points by 1potato | 273 comments
The Verge news article reporting that a RAM shortage is reviving DDR4, with Intel and AMD releasing new CPUs supporting older RAM, sockets, and chipsets.
A Cray-1 supercomputer replica from 30 "obsolete" Mac Minis(arstechnica.com)
61 points by pseudolus | 26 comments
Ars Technica article about a Cray-1 supercomputer replica built from 30 old Mac Minis at Spain's Museo de Historia de la Computación.
Atari Falcon(atarimuseum.nl)
53 points by debo_ | 17 comments
Atari Museum NL page about the Atari Falcon030, Atari Corporation's final computer, with a 68030 CPU and 56000 DSP, released 1992 and cancelled 1993.
Chip-hex:cost-benefit, energy efficiency and hexagonal(github.com)
4 points by Engineercom | 2 comments
GitHub repository for Chip-Hexa, an experimental 16-core processor architecture exploring hexagonal interconnects, energy efficiency, and performance-per-cost.
Akhetonics Photonic Computing: 1,000x Faster CPUs(medium.com)
53 points by peter_d_sherman | 35 comments
A Medium article by Tim Ventura about Akhetonics and its photonic computing approach, which claims all-optical CPUs up to 1,000x faster.
Show HN: Making a flexible "neon" t-shirt with LED filaments(scottbezek.blogspot.com)
200 points by scottbez1 | 36 comments
Blog post by Scott Bezek describing how he designed and built a wearable neon-style t-shirt using flexible LED filaments in a few days.
Show HN: I Put an AI Agent on a Nokia 110(github.com)
22 points by anupray | 7 comments
GitHub repository for a project that reverse-engineered a Nokia 110 4G's firmware to add a chat-based AI agent that handles calls, alarms and other native functions.
OLED burn-in test: 30-month update(techspot.com)
103 points by baal80spam | 69 comments
TechSpot feature giving a 30-month, 8,000-hour update on a long-term test deliberately burning in a QD-OLED monitor.
Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days(dexerto.com)
906 points by ck2 | 545 comments
Dexerto article about a man who found his parents' smart coffee machine had used 1TB of internet data in 10 days.
The dawn of the age of the exoskeleton(theconversation.com)
72 points by speckx | 39 comments
The Conversation article about the growing adoption of wearable exoskeletons, illustrated with a warehouse worker using a powered back-support exoskeleton.
Reverse Engineering of the M-VAVE FM-1 Pocket Synthesizer Firmware(github.com)
54 points by 0bytes | 33 comments
GitHub repository documenting reverse engineering of the M-VAVE FM-1 pocket synthesizer firmware, with analysis, docs, and firmware images.
Device detection and occupancy monitoring for Airbnb hosts(minut.com)
11 points by mikeodds | 37 comments
Minut product page for Crowd Detect, a sensor feature that monitors occupancy in rental properties and alerts hosts to unusually large crowds or parties.
ETH-68: Ethernet Audio Interface for Linux(naturalsystems.io)
206 points by chabad360 | 131 comments
Product page for ETH-68, a rack-mount ethernet audio interface for Linux with 8 outputs, 6 inputs, and MIDI in/out.
I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard(antonfrolov.substack.com)
878 points by soheilpro | 196 comments
Substack post by Anton Frolov about commissioning an isometric illustration of his house and turning it into an interactive Home Assistant dashboard.