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I Built a Powerful Gaming PC Solely to Run AI Models. Here's Why

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-01 14:08:13

When it comes to AI, maybe ChatGPT or Gemini come to mind. There are other players like Perplexity, Claude, Grok and Mistral. In a booming market, there are a whole host of AI models out there, many of which don't even require an internet connection. Models that run without internet connections are called local AI models, and as the name suggests, they can be run on your own hardware. You don't need to connect to OpenAI's or Google's servers to use those versions of ChatGPT or Gemini. This bri

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Writing a Rust GPU kernel driver: a brief introduction on how GPU drivers work

news.ycombinator.com Writing A Rust Gpu Kernel Driver 2025-12-08 10:00:54

This post is the second iteration of a series of posts that provide an in-depth look at the development of Tyr, a state-of-the-art Rust GPU driver for the Linux Kernel, supporting Arm Mali CSF-based GPUs. As promised in the first iteration, we will now explore how GPU drivers work in more detail by exploring an application known as VkCube . As the program name implies, this application uses the Vulkan API to render a rotating cube on the screen. Its simplicity makes it a prime candidate to be u

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5 Apple products you definitely shouldn't buy this month (and 7 to get instead)

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-12-08 15:33:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways New iPhones and Apple Watches are inbound, with the company expected to host an event in September. New AirPods Pro and HomeHub hardware are also rumored. Expect pricing tweaks to offset tariff costs, as well as changes to existing product lines. It's August, and that means we're now in the home stretch to Apple's biggest yearly update. New iPhones are weeks away, and it's likely we'll see new Apple Watches, and possibly new AirPods Pro and

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Thingino: Open-Source Firmware for IP Cameras

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-12 14:22:00

Supported Hardware Please note that we list not only the camera model, but also its SoC, image sensor, Wi-Fi module, and flash chip size. These must match to be supported by the firmware. We have found that some manufacturers change the hardware in different batches of the same module without notice. Indoor IP Cameras Bulb IP Cameras Outdoor IP Cameras IPC Modules Web Cameras Development Boards Teacup T31X Conditionally Supported Hardware Some brands protect their cameras by writing a

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C++: "model of the hardware" vs. "model of the compiler" (2018)

news.ycombinator.com No Bugs 2025-12-10 14:36:36

Author: “No Bugs” Hare Follow: Job Title: Sarcastic Architect Hobbies: Thinking Aloud, Arguing with Managers, Annoying HRs, Calling a Spade a Spade, Keeping Tongue in Cheek Recently, I have run into [P1063R0], and was literally stunned with a way those guys (mis)interpret certain fundamental aspects of C++ philosophy. By today, I found what I don’t like about their position – and am able to articulate it, so here it goes. Disclaimer: THIS POST IS SPECIFICALLY ABOUT C++; other programming la

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Why the AI era is forcing a redesign of the entire compute backbone

venturebeat.com Amin Vahdat 2025-12-14 22:05:00

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now The past few decades have seen almost unimaginable advances in compute performance and efficiency, enabled by Moore’s Law and underpinned by scale-out commodity hardware and loosely coupled software. This architecture has delivered online services to billions globally and put virtually all of human knowledge at our fingertips. But the next

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Positron bets on energy-efficient AI chips to challenge Nvidia's dominance

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-12-27 04:24:00

Highly anticipated: A new front is emerging in the race to power the next generation of artificial intelligence, and at the center of it is a startup called Positron whose bold ambitions are gaining traction in the semiconductor industry. As companies scramble to rein in the soaring energy demands of AI systems, Positron and a handful of challengers are betting that radically different chip architectures could loosen the grip of industry giants like Nvidia and reshape the AI hardware landscape.

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Why is there a date of 1968 in the Intel Chipset Device Software Utility?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-26 10:14:50

The Intel Chipset Device Software Utility shows a date of 07/18/1968 because it is symbolic: Intel was founded on that date. The reason this date is used is to lower the rank of drivers in concern. This is necessary because it's a supporting utility that should not overwrite any other drivers. Updating these drivers is not needed. Do not worry if you don't have the latest version. The Intel® Chipset Device Software installs the Windows* INF files. An INF is a text file that provides the operat

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Why Is There a Date of 1968 in the Intel Chipset Device Software Utility?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-26 16:14:50

The Intel Chipset Device Software Utility shows a date of 07/18/1968 because it is symbolic: Intel was founded on that date. The reason this date is used is to lower the rank of drivers in concern. This is necessary because it's a supporting utility that should not overwrite any other drivers. Updating these drivers is not needed. Do not worry if you don't have the latest version. The Intel® Chipset Device Software installs the Windows* INF files. An INF is a text file that provides the operat

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Computing’s Top 30: Corey Axelowitz

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2026-01-01 22:00:37

Corey Axelowitz has contributed to many groundbreaking design innovations, from the two-pound 12” MacBook to Plano AI’s early wildfire detection cameras that meld computer vision and modern hardware. He also played a pivotal role in the 10-month-to-mass-production development cycle for the huupe mini—the world’s first smart mini-basketball-hoop game console that allows real-time multiplayer games to happen around the world. Recently, Axelowitz launched the Axel Hardware Design consultancy, whi

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Towards A Unified Quantum Platform

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2026-01-06 22:25:03

Since its conception in the 1980s, quantum computing (QC) has presented academia and industry with numerous challenges as the technology has scaled. While QC systems have grown exponentially, with qubit numbers per system increasing from single digits to more than a thousand, a byproduct of this growth is a fragmented software and hardware ecosystem that makes further progress more difficult. Researchers have recently addressed this issue by creating a unified software and hardware platform to s

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M5 iPad Pro could finally deliver something we’ve all been asking for

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2026-01-23 00:38:41

Apple’s M5 iPad Pro is launching this fall, and thanks to the huge upgrades coming in iPadOS 26, it’s set to deliver something users have long asked for: new hardware that’s truly pushed to the limits by it software. M5 iPad Pro set to reverse the software shortcoming of every prior launch I’ve been an iPad Pro user for nearly a decade, and an iPad user even longer. One trademark of the iPad Pro era in particular is that hardware has outpaced software. If you revisit iPad Pro reviews from th

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I recommend this low-cost ThinkPad to most professionals - and it's on sale for 19% off

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2026-01-23 05:00:27

ZDNET's key takeaways The Lenovo ThinkPad E14 Gen 6 normally retails for $799. It's a reliable budget business laptop with a good battery and lots of customizations. The display and webcam might not be good enough for most users, and opting for higher-end hardware pumps up the price. View now at Amazon View now at Lenovo more buying choices At Amazon, the sixth-generation Lenovo ThinkPad E14 is on sale for $781. On the surface, Lenovo's sixth-generation ThinkPad E14 doesn't look much differe

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Explore 20 years of Mac UI design through emulations of a single app

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2026-01-24 05:16:19

What’s a Mac app that was included on the very first Macintosh back in 1984 – long before the internet – and still exists on today’s machines, albeit with a different name? Designer and author Marcin Wichery has not only traced the first 20 years of development of that app, but has also included emulators that let you experience it for yourself … The app in question: Control Panel, more recently renamed as Settings. That might not sound like the most fascinating of apps to track across time,

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Humanoids, AVs, and what’s next in AI hardware at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2026-01-26 10:00:00

TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 hits Moscone West in San Francisco from October 27 to 29, bringing together 10,000+ startup and VC leaders for three days of bold ideas, groundbreaking tech, and future-shaping conversations. One of the most highly anticipated sessions happening on one of the two AI Stages will spotlight where AI hardware is heading next, featuring a live look at the robotics and autonomous systems pushing boundaries in real time. In this session, two of the field’s most visionary builde

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AI mania pushes Nvidia to record $4 trillion valuation

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-31 10:35:15

On Wednesday, Nvidia became the first company in history to reach $4 trillion market valuation as shares rose more than 2 percent, reports CNBC. The GPU maker's stock has climbed 22 percent since the start of 2025, continuing a trend driven by demand for AI hardware following ChatGPT's late 2022 launch. The milestone marks the highest market cap ever recorded for a publicly traded company, surpassing Apple's previous record of $3.8 trillion set in December. Nvidia first crossed $2 trillion in F

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Apple’s design team will report to Tim Cook

theverge.com Jay Peters 2026-02-02 10:58:14

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Apple CEO Tim Cook is about to take over one of the most significant parts of Apple’s business: its design team. The team currently reports to COO Jeff Williams, but once Williams begins his just-announced retirement “late in the year,” the design team “will then transition to reporting directly to Cook,” Apple says. The company is currently in the midst of a huge software de

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SUS Lang: The SUS Hardware Description Language

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-06 10:16:49

The compiler keeps track of many aspects of your hardware design, and displays them in the editor. Core Philosophy The SUS HDL is meant to be a direct competitor to Synthesizeable Verilog and VHDL. Its main goal is to be an intuitive and thin syntax for building netlists, such that traditional synthesis tools can still be used to analyze the resulting hardware. SUS shall impose no paradigm on the hardware designer, such as requiring specific communication protocols or iteration constructs. In

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Ubuntu 25.10 Raises RISC-V Profile Requirements

news.ycombinator.com Joey Sneddon 2026-02-07 14:32:19

Canonical is bullish in promoting Ubuntu for RISC-V devices, be it enthusiast-orientated hardware like DeepComputing’s RISC-V tablet, single-board computers, or embedded equipment. But with a new long-term support (LTS) release looming, it’s rethinking the kind of RISC-V hardware it wants to support going forward. A recent bug report filed against Ubuntu’s upgrading tool confirmed a major change with regards to the RISC-V requirements for the upcoming Ubuntu 25.10 release — most existing RISC-

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Israeli quantum startup Qedma just raised $26M, with IBM joining in

techcrunch.com Anna Heim 2026-02-11 05:00:00

Despite their imposing presence, quantum computers are delicate beasts, and their errors are among the main bottlenecks that the quantum computing community is actively working to address. Failing this, promising applications in finance, drug discovery, and materials science may never become real. That’s the reason why Google touted the error-correction capacities of its latest quantum computing chip, Willow. And IBM is both working on delivering its own “fault-tolerant” quantum computer by 202

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Launch HN: K-Scale Labs (YC W24) – Open-Source Humanoid Robots

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-11 15:44:18

Hi HN, I'm Ben, from K-Scale Labs ( https://kscale.dev ). We're building open-source humanoid robots. Hardware video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhZi9rtdEKg Software video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXi3b3xXJFw Docs: https://docs.kscale.dev Github: https://github.com/kscalelabs HN thread from back in May: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44023680 I started K-Scale because I really wanted a humanoid robot to hack on, so I knew that if I built one, I would have at least one cu

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Israeli quantum startup Qedma just raised $26 million, with IBM joining in

techcrunch.com Anna Heim 2026-02-12 05:00:00

Despite their imposing presence, quantum computers are delicate beasts, and their errors are among the main bottlenecks that the quantum computing community is actively working to address. Failing this, promising applications in finance, drug discovery, and materials science may never become real. That’s the reason why Google touted the error correction capacities of its latest quantum computing chip, Willow. And IBM is both working on delivering its own “fault-tolerant” quantum computer by 202

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The best laptops of 2025: I've tested dozens of laptops and these are the best ones

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2026-02-12 21:00:20

Laptops come in a variety of different form factors these days, with manufacturers playing into the different categories to develop an intended use case. For example, lightweight laptops are made to be carried around, and trade in some raw power for portability. 2-in-1 laptops come with touchscreens that allow for use as a tablet. The best form factor for you reflects how you think you'll use the device. Lightweight/ultraportable laptops Made for students, hybrid workers, and anyone who needs

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Challenging the Status Quo to Revolutionize Computer Architecture

computer.org Jasmine Ang 2026-02-19 18:02:25

An interview with Gurindar Sohi, recipient of the 2025 Computer Pioneer Award Gurindar (Guri) Sohi, Vilas Research Professor, John P. Morgridge Professor, and E. David Cronon Professor of Computer Sciences, Computer Science Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wis., U.S.A., has remained in the same office at the university since 1987 – almost 40 years. He jokes that it even still has some of its original furnishings, like the carpet. But what he does not make light of is the

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Xbox Needs to Get Weirder or Die Trying

gizmodo.com James Pero 2026-02-20 05:56:01

Xbox is in a weird place right now, and I’m not the only one who thinks so. In fact, people with more important opinions on the subject than myself seem to agree: if Microsoft doesn’t get its shit together on hardware, the box as we know it is cooked. Laura Fryer, the former director of the Xbox Advanced Technology Group for the original Xbox project back in May 2000 and former executive producer for Microsoft Games Studios up until the Xbox 360 days, put it bluntly in a recent video. “Obviousl

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Scaling smarter: How enterprise IT teams can right-size their compute for AI

venturebeat.com Joe Maglitta 2026-02-21 15:00:00

This article is part of VentureBeat’s special issue, “The Real Cost of AI: Performance, Efficiency and ROI at Scale.” Read more from this special issue. AI pilots rarely start with a deep discussion of infrastructure and hardware. But seasoned scalers warn that deploying high-value production workloads will not end happily without strategic, ongoing focus on a key enterprise-grade foundation. Good news: There’s growing recognition by enterprises about the pivotal role infrastructure plays in e

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Google quietly introduced precise Bluetooth tracking on the Pixel Watch 3

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2026-02-22 10:11:46

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. With the Wear OS 5.1 update that was released last March, Google quietly introduced a new feature called Channel Sounding for the Pixel Watch 3 that could improve the accuracy of pinpointing the location of other devices using its existing Bluetooth hardware. But while Channel Sounding is now supported by the smartwatch, it’s not yet in use becau

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How PC makers exploited BIOS copyright strings to unlock trial software during the Windows 95 era

techspot.com Alfonso Maruccia 2026-02-27 10:06:00

What just happened? Jokingly referred to as "Plug and Pray" due to its notorious unreliability, the Plug and Play standard was nonetheless a pivotal advancement in simplifying hardware and peripheral configuration during the early Windows 9x era. Beyond easing setup for end users, the technology also played an unexpected role in exposing a cartel of PC manufacturers that had been exploiting a hardware feature to provide full versions of trial software packages to their customers. Microsoft vete

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OpenAI's hardware plans with Jony Ive just hit a legal snag

zdnet.com Radhika Rajkumar 2026-03-02 20:10:00

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Last month, OpenAI announced it was officially getting into the hardware business. In a video posted to X, CEO Sam Altman and former Apple designer Jony Ive, who worked on flagship products like the iPhone, revealed a partnership to create the next generation of AI-enabled devices via a startup called io. But that launch appears to have hit a snag. Also: Is ChatGPT Plus really worth $20 when the free version offers so many premium features? On Tuesday, evidence

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Developing a Retro-Roguelike Game for Multiple Platforms in C

news.ycombinator.com Chris Garrett 2026-02-28 18:33:01

Creating a game that runs smoothly across different vintage and modern computers is a complex and ambitious challenge. Can I achieve it? Let me tell you the story so far; the process, obstacles, and solutions involved in making a roguelike dungeon crawler playable on systems like the Commodore 64, Commodore PET, and even more constrained machines. Watch on YouTube Why Build Games for Multiple Platforms? Many enthusiasts collect old computers just for their nostalgic value. However, having th

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Developing a Retro-Roguelike Game for Multiple Platforms in C

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