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Minisforum MS-02 Ultra mini workstation hands-on — can it replace my hulking desktop PC that is 11 times larger? (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-07 | by Mark Tyson | get Mini PC → | tags: hardware, image, minisforum

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Asus ProArt PA32KCX 32-inch 8K professional monitor review: A reference for color, pixel density, and brightness (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-07 | by Christian Eberle | get Display → | tags: asus, color, credit

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3D-printed batteries aim to reshape energy storage in small devices (techspot.com)

2026-02-07 | get Smart Batteries → | tags: aerospace, aerospace hardware, aims

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Apple Is More Serious About AI Devices Than We Thought (gizmodo.com)

2026-02-06 | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: acquisition, acquisition painting, ai hardware

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Valve's Steam Machine: How Much It Will Cost, When It Comes Out and More (cnet.com)

2026-02-06 | by See Full Bio | get Steam Machine → | tags: console, hardware, machine

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Valve Delays Steam Frame and Steam Machine Pricing as Memory Costs Rise (cnet.com)

2026-02-06 | by See Full Bio | get Steam Frame → | tags: frame, frame steam, hardware

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Show HN: Agent Arena – Test How Manipulation-Proof Your AI Agent Is (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-06 | get Agent → | tags: hard, hidden, instructions

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Noctua celebrates sending out its 500,000th CPU cooler mounting upgrade kit — milestone marks two decades of the free program (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-06 | by Bruno Ferreira | get CPU Cooler Mounting Kit → | tags: cooler, coolers, hardware

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PNY CS2342 2TB SSD Review: High-Capacity TLC Performance In M.2 2230 (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-06 | by Shane Downing | get SSD → | tags: drive, drives, flash

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One-third of consumers reject AI on their devices, with most saying they simply don’t need it — latest report highlights privacy fears and potential costs among other real-world concerns (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-06 | by Ben Stockton | get Smartphone → | tags: devices, functionality, responded

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Anycubic Kobra X Review: Hidden AMS (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-05 | by Denise Bertacchi | get Kobra X → | tags: anycubic, anycubic kobra, filament

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Jim Keller's Tenstorrent is downgrading Blackhole p150 cards from 140 to 120 tensor cores via firmware update — will ship cards with 120 tensor cores going forward, company claims existing users should expect 1-2% performance drop (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-05 | by Bruno Ferreira | get Tensor Core → | tags: blackhole, cards, change

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Intel clawed back CPU market share from AMD in the Steam Hardware survey for the first time in months — PC component crisis could be pushing builders to value-for-money builds (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-05 | by Mark Tyson | get CPU → | tags: hardware, intel, latest

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Peloton’s gamble on expensive new hardware has yet to pay off (theverge.com)

2026-02-05 | by Victoria Song | get Elevate Bike → | tags: hardware, peloton, stern

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Valve delays Steam Machine and Steam Frame as memory prices surge (techspot.com)

2026-02-05 | get Steam Frame → | tags: amd recently, announcing, blog

496.

Wirth's Revenge (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-05 | get Smartwatch → | tags: hardware, llms, problem

497.

Debian's Challenge When Its Developers Drift Away (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-04 | get Linux → | tags: articles, author, hardware

498.

‘Whistle’ Puts a Pleasingly Freaky Spin on a Familiar Horror Tale (gizmodo.com)

2026-02-04 | get Whisper → | tags: chiller, corin, corin hardy

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‘Most of you steal your software’ — Bill Gates complained about software piracy 50 years ago, and was openly irked by community's Altair BASIC ‘theft’ (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-04 | by Mark Tyson | get Altair BASIC → | tags: altair, basic, computer

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GMKtec Evo X2 AI Mini PC review: Compact Strix Halo Powerhouse (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-04 | by Charles Jefferies | get Strix → | tags: gmktec, hardware, image

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Apple's latest 14-inch MacBook Pro M5 with 24GB of RAM is only $1499 — the lowest price we've seen and $300 cheaper than buying direct from Apple (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-04 | by Stewart Bendle | get MacBook → | tags: apple, chip, hardware

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These two outstanding Thunderbolt 4 Docks add versatility to my laptop and desktop PC (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-04 | by Brandon Hill | get DisplayPort → | tags: credit tom, dock, hardware

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These Thunderbolt 4 Docks add versatility to my laptop and desktop (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-04 | by Brandon Hill | get Thunderbolt → | tags: credit tom, dock, hardware

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Western Digital reveals new software platform to manage hundreds of petabytes of storage — as-yet-unnamed tool gives users powerful management capabilities at the price of lock-in (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-04 | by Anton Shilov | get Storage → | tags: digital, hardware, storage

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Corsair Galleon 100 SD Review: A gaming keyboard and Stream Deck collide; combo is good, but is it necessary? (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-04 | by Sarah Jacobsson Purewal | get Gaming keyboard → | tags: credit, credit tom, hardware

506.

I miss thinking hard (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-04 | get Brain → | tags: builder, hard, problem

507.

Defining Safe Hardware Design [pdf] (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-03 | get Smart Card → | tags: defining, defining safe, design

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AMD Radeon RX 9000 GPUs begin to appear in the Steam Hardware Survey at last — RX 9070 arrives with paltry 0.16% market share, less than the GeForce GT 730 (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-03 | by Mark Tyson | get GPU → | tags: hardware, rx xt, steam

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Trump Announces Minerals Stockpile Way Too Late for It to Spare Him From Embarrassment by China (gizmodo.com)

2026-02-03 | get Stockpile → | tags: buying, buying hard, china

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Right-to-Compute Laws Are Spreading Across the US, as Electricity Bills Skyrocket (gizmodo.com)

2026-02-02 | get Smart Grid → | tags: cities, cities regulate, harder