Hardware

40 tools recommended in Hacker News comment threads, most-mentioned first.

AYN Odin 2 Portal
An Android handheld gaming device.
1 thread
AirFanta 3Pro
A portable air purifier built from PC fans and multiple filter panels.
1 thread
AirGradient One
An indoor air quality monitor available assembled or as a kit.
1 thread
CAN bus
A robust multi-node serial bus protocol widely used in vehicles and industrial systems.
1 thread
Clicks Communicator ↗
A new phone design with a built-in physical QWERTY keyboard.
1 thread
Dohm ↗
A sound machine that produces noise with an internal fan rather than a speaker.
1 thread
Etymotic earplugs
Earplugs designed to attenuate sound evenly across frequencies.
1 thread
Fairphone
A modular, repairable Android smartphone.
1 thread
Framework Laptop 13 Pro ↗
A modular, repairable laptop that ships with LPCAMM2 memory.
1 thread
Hyundai Kona Electric
A compact electric crossover SUV made by Hyundai.
1 thread
IKEA FÖRNUFTIG
A compact IKEA air purifier with replaceable filters.
1 thread
Innioasis Y1 ↗
An inexpensive offline music player loosely modeled on the iPod Classic.
1 thread
JetKVM
A compact IP KVM providing remote video and USB input control.
1 thread
Kensington SlimBlade ↗
A trackball where scrolling is done by twisting the ball.
1 thread
Kiosk / commercial signage displays
Commercial displays sold by TV makers for lobbies and conference rooms without consumer smart-TV software.
1 thread
Lenovo ThinkPad E16
A Lenovo business laptop with partly socketed RAM.
1 thread
Murena ↗
A vendor selling smartphones preinstalled with a de-Googled Android OS.
1 thread
NXP LPC11C00 ↗
An NXP microcontroller series with an integrated CAN transceiver.
1 thread
NanoKVM
A low-cost IP KVM device for remote machine control.
1 thread
NeuroPace RNS System ↗
An implanted responsive neurostimulation device that treats epilepsy.
1 thread
Nikon Coolpix P1000
A superzoom bridge camera with a 24-3000mm equivalent lens.
1 thread
Oppo Find N6
A book-style Android foldable phone from Oppo.
1 thread
Ploopy Adept ↗
An open-hardware trackball with discrete scroll wheels.
1 thread
Sprout ↗
A replacement motherboard for classic iPods adding Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and UI improvements.
1 thread
SwitchBot Bot ↗
A small Bluetooth device that physically presses buttons or flips switches.
1 thread
Taalas ↗
Company building ASICs with LLMs such as Llama 3.1 8B baked into silicon.
1 thread
USB-SD-Mux ↗
A USB-controlled multiplexer that switches an SD card between a device under test and a host.
1 thread
USB4VC ↗
An adapter that lets modern USB keyboards, mice and gamepads drive vintage computers.
1 thread
VEVOR Alcohol Still ↗
An 8-gallon stainless steel home distiller kit with a thumper keg, sold on Amazon.
1 thread
Windows-GPU-UNLOCK ↗
A Windows version of the Nvidia GPU unlock.
1 thread
Zinwa Q25 ↗
A revived BlackBerry-style phone with a physical keyboard and an updated motherboard.
1 thread
gpu-unlock-ada ↗
A fork of gpu-unlock that applies the instruction-rate unlock to Ada-generation cards such as the RTX 4090 and 4070 Ti Super.
1 thread
turing-unlock ↗
A similar instruction-rate unlock for Nvidia Turing cards.
1 thread
Arctic P14
A 140mm PC case fan.
0 threads
Austin Air HealthMate
A large HEPA and carbon air purifier with a long-life filter.
0 threads
FiiO M21
A dedicated digital audio player from FiiO.
0 threads
Motorola Razr
A line of flip-style foldable Android phones from Motorola.
0 threads
NVIDIA DGX Spark
A compact NVIDIA AI workstation for running models locally.
0 threads
Pixel 10 Pro Fold
A foldable Android smartphone made by Google.
0 threads
Storybutton One ↗
An offline audio player for kids for music, audiobooks and podcasts.
0 threads