Modifying an HDMI dummy plug's EDID using a Raspberry Pi(downtowndougbrown.com)

283 points by zdw 1 year ago | 82 comments

Fixing a knockoff Altera USB Blaster that never worked(downtowndougbrown.com)

143 points by jandeboevrie 2 years ago | 26 comments

Fixing an NZXT Signal 4K30 part 2: the green/pink video bug(downtowndougbrown.com)

33 points by zdw 1 month ago | 10 comments

Building Alex Taradov’s open-source USB sniffer(downtowndougbrown.com)

106 points by zdw 3 years ago | 14 comments

Debugging BeagleBoard USB boot with a sniffer: fixing omap_loader on modern PCs(downtowndougbrown.com)

68 points by todsacerdoti 11 months ago | 3 comments

Gooey rubber that's slowly ruining old hard drives(downtowndougbrown.com)

259 points by zdw 1 year ago | 177 comments

Displayport: A Better Video Interface(hackaday.com)

729 points by zdw 3 years ago | 366 comments

Hackaday article by Arya Voronova explaining the DisplayPort video interface and why it is better than alternatives like HDMI.

Using AI to reverse engineer hardware(blogs.gnome.org)

224 points by ErenayDev 11 days ago | 198 comments

Blog post by Christian F.K. Schaller, a Red Hat developer, about using AI tools to reverse engineer hardware, presumably for Linux driver development.

GPUs Go Brrr(hazyresearch.stanford.edu)

1056 points by nmstoker 2 years ago | 243 comments

Stanford Hazy Research blog post on what GPU hardware wants for efficient AI kernels, introducing the ThunderKittens CUDA kernel library.

We were wrong about GPUs(fly.io)

834 points by mxstbr 1 year ago | 529 comments

Fly.io blog post reflecting on how the company's bet on offering GPU machines to developers did not pan out as expected.

The GPU, not the TPM, is the root of hardware DRM(mjg59.dreamwidth.org)

399 points by DvdGiessen 1 year ago | 408 comments

Blog post by Matthew Garrett arguing that GPUs, not TPMs, are the real root of hardware DRM; the capture shows a Dreamwidth captcha page instead.

Vision Pro: What we got wrong at Oculus that Apple got right(hugo.blog)

803 points by wolverine876 2 years ago | 768 comments

Blog post by Hugo Barra assessing Apple Vision Pro as an over-engineered devkit, comparing it with Oculus and arguing Meta could have its Android moment.