Hacker News with Generative AI: Hardware Design

7 Years Later: Why and How to Make Portable Open Hardware Computers (Relive) [video] (media.ccc.de)
After more than 7 years, a small team of hackers and designers in Berlin are about to release the third generation of their Open Hardware laptop family: MNT Reform Next. Here, Lukas "minute" Hartmann will discuss why we need Open Hardware computers, what we learned through trial, error and hardship of designing and hand-assembling over 1000 of them by hand, and how you can claw back some autonomy over your hardware from Big Computer.
Apple stuck the Mac mini power button on the bottom (appleinsider.com)
Don't expect to fit the new M4 Mac mini into too tight a space because you're going to have to tip it to reach underneath every time you need to switch it on.
Apple put the Magic Mouse's charging port on the bottom, again (theverge.com)
Apple’s new USB-C-equipped Magic Mouse somehow still has the charging port on the bottom.
Apple put the Magic Mouse's charging port on the bottom again (theverge.com)
Apple’s new USB-C-equipped Magic Mouse somehow still has the charging port on the bottom.
Automated feature testing of Verilog parsers using fuzzing (wordpress.com)
I’m delighted that Quentin Corradi, a PhD student I jointly supervise with George Constantinides, will be presenting his work to improve the reliability of hardware design tools next week at the FUZZING’24 workshop, a satellite event of the ISSTA conference.
Verilog Copilot that pulls from pre-verified libraries [video] (youtube.com)
Understanding the design of the the Super Nintendo video system (fabiensanglard.net)