Hacker News with Generative AI: Computing

Qualcomm RISCs, Arm Pulls: The Legal Battle for the Future of Client Computing (thechipletter.substack.com)
“You have to bet the company. Especially right now, it’s like being in the gladiator business: you go in, you prepare, you go to the Colosseum …”

Technology, Legal Disputes, Semiconductors, Computing

54 points by chmaynard 5 days ago | 21 comments

Apple's M4 Max chip is the fastest single-core performer in consumer computing (twitter.com)

Apple, Processors, Performance, Computing, Hardware

363 points by retskrad 20 days ago | 529 comments

New iMac with M4 (apple.com)
Apple today announced the new iMac, featuring the powerful M4 chip and Apple Intelligence, in its stunning, ultra-thin design.

Apple Products, Hardware, Computing, M-Series Chips

534 points by tosh 24 days ago | 1144 comments

Room-Temperature Superconductivity Heats Up (cacm.acm.org)
Workable technology could all but eliminate energy losses while significantly advancing neuromorphic AI computing.

Superconductivity, Physics, Energy, Artificial Intelligence, Computing

13 points by pseudolus 25 days ago | 12 comments

The World Will Eat $2T in AI Servers, AI Will Eat the World Right Back (nextplatform.com)
Every time Lisa Su, chief executive officer at AMD, announces a new Instinct GPU accelerator, the addressable market for AI acceleration in the datacenter seems to expand. But, we observe, the growth rate in the AI datacenter accelerator forecast has slowed even as the ramp rate for AMD and Nvidia GPUs is speeding up.

Artificial Intelligence, Data Centers, Hardware, Business, Computing

6 points by rbanffy 33 days ago | 2 comments

A carbon-nanotube-based tensor processing unit (nature.com)
The growth of data-intensive computing tasks requires processing units with higher performance and energy efficiency, but these requirements are increasingly difficult to achieve with conventional semiconductor technology.

Hardware, Nanotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Computing

3 points by belter 35 days ago | 0 comments

The iPhone and the Wonder of Computing (arbesman.substack.com)
Soon after the iPhone’s release in 2007, I went to a mall in the suburbs of Buffalo to see this new device in all its glory.

iPhone, Technology, Computing, History

3 points by arbesman 43 days ago | 0 comments

Abacus Machines [pdf] (carstenfuehrmann.org)

History, Computing, Mathematics

51 points by shakna 45 days ago | 2 comments

Borg, My Post-Pandemic Homelab Server (2023) (taoofmac.com)
Resistance is, indeed, futile. I now have a new homelab server and its name is borg, partly because it is a rough cube ~22 cm on a side:

Homelab, Technology, Servers, Computing, DIY

28 points by tosh 49 days ago | 2 comments

Palmtop 2024 (paperstack.com)
You remember NetBooks, right? Are they making a comeback? I dunno, but they do seem to exist again - at last!

Hardware, Computing, Nostalgia, Trends

16 points by dcminter 50 days ago | 8 comments

Tracking the historical events that lead to the interweaving of knowledge (2021) (cacm.acm.org)
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” —George Santayana

History, Knowledge, Information Science, Computing, Past

49 points by punkpeye 53 days ago | 3 comments

Ask HN: Why does current interest in retro computing focus on the early 80s? (ycombinator.com)
Ask HN: Why does current interest in retro computing focus on the early 80s?

Retro Computing, History, Technology, Computing, 80s

38 points by amichail 54 days ago | 85 comments

Alan Turing’s 1950 manual for the Mark I electronic computer [pdf] (computerhistory.org)

Computer History, Alan Turing, Computing, History, Technology

234 points by lisper 59 days ago | 57 comments

The Calculator that spawned the Microprocessor (2009) (vintagecalculators.com)
The fascinating story of why the development of a calculator led to the development of the first commercial microprocessor, and the unexpected consequences.

Microprocessors, History, Computing, Technology, Calculators

125 points by fortran77 61 days ago | 46 comments

Transparent Like Frosted Glass (explaining.software)
Sherry Turkle wrote her study of the culture of computing, The Second Self, "on an Apple II computer that had, quite literally, been torn bare."

Technology, History, Computing

40 points by todsacerdoti 64 days ago | 25 comments

Michigan Micro Mote (M3) makes history as the smallest computer (2015) (engin.umich.edu)
Michigan Micro Mote (M3), the world’s smallest computer, has taken its place among other revolutionary accomplishments in the history of computing at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.

Hardware, History, Computing, Microprocessors

49 points by throwoutway 67 days ago | 9 comments

CP/M forty years on – what it was, and why it still matters (2021) (kevinboone.me)
It's now 40 years since the heyday of CP/M -- the first serious attempt at an operating system for microcomputers.

Operating Systems, History, Computing, Retrocomputing

43 points by AlexeyBrin 67 days ago | 4 comments

On the moral bankruptcy of the term "Trusted Computing" (2004) (archive.org)

Ethics, Technology, Computing, Security

6 points by greyface- 69 days ago | 1 comments

Intents: The Endgame for Computing Interfaces? (http200.substack.com)
Computing interfaces are undergoing big changes. Let’s explore how we got here, what it means and why we may be approaching optimality.

Human-Computer Interaction, User Interfaces, Computing

36 points by dpim 71 days ago | 19 comments

Coupled Oscillators for Computing (2020) (pubs.aip.org)
The goal of this paper is to give a survey of oscillator-based computing (OBC), with the emphasis on the underlying physics that enables novel applications in computing and information processing.

Physics, Computing, Information Processing

46 points by nickpsecurity 72 days ago | 15 comments

Novel Chinese computing architecture 'inspired by human brain' can lead to AGI (livescience.com)

Artificial Intelligence, Neuroscience, Computing

14 points by bookofjoe 74 days ago | 2 comments

Cosy Computing (datagubbe.se)

Computing, Software, Personal Computing, Lifestyle

74 points by zdw 80 days ago | 24 comments

Cemetery of Soviet Computers (rusue.com)

History, Computing, Russia, Museums

12 points by colinprince 82 days ago | 0 comments

Stonebraker Seeks to Invert the Computing Paradigm with DBOS (datanami.com)