Hacker News with Generative AI: Computing

China Just Made the Fastest Transistor and It Is Not Made of Silicon (zmescience.com)
At Peking University, a group of Chinese scientists may have just turned the computing industry up on its head.
China, Transistors, Semiconductors, Computing
8 points by sharjeelsayed 2 days ago | 0 comments
China Just Made the Fastest Transistor (zmescience.com)
At Peking University, a group of Chinese scientists may have just turned the computing industry up on its head.
China, Transistors, Computing, Science
9 points by mrbluecoat 3 days ago | 1 comments
Microsoft's "1‑bit" AI model runs on a CPU only, while matching larger systems (arstechnica.com)
Future AI might not need supercomputers thanks to models like BitNet b1.58 2B4T.
Artificial Intelligence, Hardware, Computing
5 points by PaulHoule 4 days ago | 0 comments
Reversible computing with mechanical links and pivots (tennysontbardwell.com)
With the concern that “Moore’s Law is dead,” new interest has grown for unconventional forms of computing.
Computing, Hardware, Physics, Science
163 points by tennysont 7 days ago | 68 comments
The Death of Affordable Computing: Tariffs Impact and Investigation [video] (youtube.com)
Economics, Computing, Trade, Video
9 points by felineflock 7 days ago | 0 comments
The Passing of Ucbvax (1994) (ucbvax.berkeley.edu)
History, Computing, Unix
66 points by ecliptik 10 days ago | 21 comments
The Death of Affordable Computing – Tariffs Impact and Investigation [video] (youtube.com)
Economics, Technology, Computing, Tariffs, Video
9 points by toxicunderGroov 14 days ago | 0 comments
The Death of Affordable Computing – Tariffs Impact and Investigation [video] (youtube.com)
Computing, Economics, Tariffs, Technology, Video
12 points by dralley 14 days ago | 0 comments
Classic Computer Replicas (obsolescence.dev)
After World War II, computers evolved with amazing speed, discovering the path to modern computing.
History, Computing, Hardware
82 points by dbelson 14 days ago | 28 comments
The Future of Compute: Nvidia's Crown Is Slipping (mohitdagarwal.substack.com)
Demand consolidation, changing compute mix, custom silicon, and distributed training will hurt NVIDIA's pole position.
Nvidia, Cloud Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Hardware, Computing
144 points by wilson090 15 days ago | 120 comments
The Good Karma Kit (archivebox.github.io)
A Docker Compose project to run on servers with spare CPU, disk, and bandwidth. Help the world by contributing your unused computing power to good causes.
Docker, Open Source, Computing, Volunteer Work
56 points by jedeusus 19 days ago | 16 comments
All-in-Memory Stochastic Computing Using ReRAM (arxiv.org)
As the demand for efficient, low-power computing in embedded and edge devices grows, traditional computing methods are becoming less effective for handling complex tasks.
Computing, Hardware, Memory, Artificial Intelligence, Research
30 points by rbanffy 22 days ago | 1 comments
NonStop 80s Servers (wikipedia.org)
NonStop is a series of server computers introduced to market in 1976 by Tandem Computers Inc.,[1] beginning with the NonStop product line.[2] It was followed by the Tandem Integrity NonStop line of lock-step fault-tolerant computers, now defunct (not to be confused with the later and much different Hewlett-Packard Integrity product line extension). The original NonStop product line is currently offered by Hewlett Packard Enterprise since Hewlett-Packard Company's split in 2015.
Hardware, Servers, History, Technology, Computing
8 points by unwind 25 days ago | 2 comments
Kids can't use computers and this is why it should worry you (2013) (coding2learn.org)
The truth is, kids can't use general purpose computers, and neither can most of the adults I know.
Education, Technology, Computing
51 points by ahamez 27 days ago | 95 comments
Osborne Computer liquidated April 9, 1986 (homeip.net)
39 years ago today, on April 9, 1986, Osborne Computer Corporation, one of the early makers of CP/M computers and a pioneer in portable computing, liquidated after three years of financial hardship. Its demise is generally blamed on its founder, Adam Osborne, saying too much about an upcoming computer. But that oversimplifies a longer and more complex story.
History, Technology, Business, Computing
5 points by rbanffy 28 days ago | 1 comments
Building the System/360 Mainframe Nearly Destroyed IBM (ieee.org)
A short list of the most transformative products of the past century and a half would include the lightbulb, Ford’s Model T—and the IBM System/360.
Technology, History, Business, Computing
171 points by rbanffy 29 days ago | 95 comments
Microsoft turns 50: A look back at everything from the Altair to the Zune (npr.org)
It all started with two kids who shared a geeky hobby.
Microsoft, History, Technology, Business, Computing
13 points by todsacerdoti 31 days ago | 1 comments
What Is the True Promise of Quantum Computing? (quantamagazine.org)
Quantum computing promises unprecedented speed, but in practice, it’s proven remarkably difficult to find important questions that quantum machines can solve faster than classical ones.
Quantum Computing, Science, Technology, Computing
7 points by four_fifths 34 days ago | 1 comments
The Nvidia DGX Spark Is a Tiny 128GB AI Mini PC Made for Scale-Out Clustering (servethehome.com)
With 20 Arm cores connected using C2C to a Blackwell generation GPU, 128GB of LPDDR5X memory, and 200GbE NVIDIA ConnectX-7 networking, the NVIDIA DGX Spark is exciting. At $3999 it is far from cheap. On the other hand, we expect folks to create the most awesome clusters with this.
Artificial Intelligence, Hardware, Networking, Computing, Supercomputing
17 points by PaulHoule 35 days ago | 5 comments
Nvidia GPU roadmap confirms it: Moore's Law is dead and buried (theregister.com)
As Jensen Huang is fond of saying, Moore's Law is dead – and at Nvidia GTC this month, the GPU-slinger's chief exec let slip just how deep in the ground the computational scaling law really is.
Nvidia, Moore's Law, Hardware, Technology, Computing
67 points by pseudolus 37 days ago | 62 comments
Thinner Films Conduct Better Than Copper (ieee.org)
Future chips need something better than copper. Are topological semimetals the answer?
Materials Science, Nanotechnology, Semiconductors, Computing
66 points by rbanffy 41 days ago | 23 comments
Angelina Jolie Was Right About Computers (wired.com)
“RISC architecture is gonna change everything.” Those absurdly geeky, incredibly prophetic words were spoken 30 years ago. Today, they’re somehow truer than ever.
Technology, History, Computing, Predictions, Angelina Jolie
21 points by vdupras 43 days ago | 2 comments
Post Apocalyptic Computing (thomashunter.name)
In a world increasingly dominated by planned obsolescence and disposable technology, the idea of a general-purpose computing machine designed to last a century feels both radical and necessary.
Computing, Technology, Sustainability, Future
28 points by tlhunter 43 days ago | 12 comments
Making the Arithmometer Count (ox.ac.uk)
The arithmometer of Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar (1785-1870) has a firmly established place in the history of computing.
History, Computing, Mathematics
11 points by gene-h 49 days ago | 1 comments
A single-fibre computer enables textile networks and distributed inference (nature.com)
Despite advancements in wearable technologies1,2, barriers remain in achieving distributed computation located persistently on the human body. Here a textile fibre computer that monolithically combines analogue sensing, digital memory, processing and communication in a mass of less than 5 g is presented.
Textile Technology, Computing, Science, Wearable Technology, Distributed Computing
58 points by walterbell 49 days ago | 8 comments
Digital Hygiene (bearblog.dev)
Every now and then I get reminded about the vast fraud apparatus of the internet, re-invigorating my pursuit of basic digital hygiene around privacy/security of day to day computing.
Digital Hygiene, Online Security, Privacy, Computing
31 points by tosh 49 days ago | 20 comments
Digital Hygiene (bearblog.dev)
Every now and then I get reminded about the vast fraud apparatus of the internet, re-invigorating my pursuit of basic digital hygiene around privacy/security of day to day computing.
Privacy, Security, Internet, Computing
39 points by yamrzou 50 days ago | 7 comments
Ask HN: I have excess compute, how can I contribute positively to the Internet? (ycombinator.com)
I have excess compute and bandwidth capacity and thought it would be a great opportunity to contribute positively to the Internet and the broader community.
Community, Computing, Open Source, Distributed Computing
12 points by its-kostya 57 days ago | 12 comments
Hackintoshing as a sustainable environmental practice (medium.com)
In 2025 using Linux or a Hackintosh is a very sustainable practice in computing, because you are able to use hardware longer.
Sustainability, Computing, Operating Systems, Environmentalism
50 points by opengears 60 days ago | 78 comments
50 years ago - Altair 8800 The most powerful minicomputer project ever presented (archive.org)
Ask the publishers to restore access to 500,000+ books.
History, Technology, Computing, Archives, Restoration
6 points by canucker2016 61 days ago | 3 comments