Hacker News with Generative AI: Manufacturing

Chinese Manufacturers Make Appeals to Americans: Buy Direct (nytimes.com)
Chinese manufacturers are flooding TikTok and other social media apps with direct appeals to American shoppers, urging people to buy luxury items straight from their factories. And amid the threats of sky-high tariffs on Chinese exports, Americans seem to be all in.
China, Manufacturing, Consumerism, Trade, Social Media
8 points by bookofjoe 5 hours ago | 1 comments
Apple aims to source all US iPhones from India in pivot away from China (ft.com)
Apple, iPhone, Manufacturing, India, China
13 points by selkin 22 hours ago | 4 comments
Chinese factories slow production and send workers home as US tariffs bite (ft.com)
China, Trade, Economics, Tariffs, Manufacturing
11 points by suraci 1 day ago | 2 comments
People say they’ll pay more for “made in the USA” so we ran a test (afina.com)
When we priced a U.S.-made version of our flagship product 85% higher than our Chinese-made one, 25,650 customers had the chance to vote with their wallets. Here’s what happened.
Consumer Behavior, Manufacturing, Pricing, USA
149 points by ericzawo 1 day ago | 155 comments
Apple Computers Used to Be Built in the U.S. It Was a Mess (2018) (nytimes.com)
Steve Jobs tried to create a manufacturing culture in Silicon Valley. As one former Apple engineer put it, "It wasn't great for business."
Apple, Manufacturing, History, Silicon Valley
38 points by ViktorRay 1 day ago | 29 comments
Foxconn's India iPhone factory triggers real estate boom (restofworld.org)
Foxconn’s arrival is quickly changing a rural town in southern India into a real estate hot spot.
Real Estate, India, Manufacturing, Technology, Apple
8 points by vinnyglennon 4 days ago | 0 comments
USA Unable to Make Drones Without Components from China (militarnyi.com)
American drone manufacturers are facing a serious dependency on Chinese components in their products.
USA, China, Drones, Military, Manufacturing
13 points by croes 4 days ago | 9 comments
Chinese factories build firetrucks for $400k in 6wk. US it's $2M in 4 years [video] (youtube.com)
Manufacturing, China, United States, Fire Trucks, Cost Comparison
11 points by xbmcuser 6 days ago | 1 comments
Chinese factories build firetrucks for $400k in 6wk. US it's $2M in 4 years [video] (youtube.com)
Manufacturing, China, USA, Firetrucks, Costs
7 points by xbmcuser 6 days ago | 2 comments
Trump's Tariffs Are Starting to Kill Jobs (reason.com)
The Trump administration believes that high tariffs will boost the prospects of American manufacturing, but one iconic truck company is now preparing to lay off hundreds of workers—because of the tariffs.
Politics, Economics, Trade, Manufacturing
41 points by emrah 7 days ago | 10 comments
Honeywell Announces 42% Surcharge on R-454B (achrnews.com)
Honeywell recently notified customers of a 42% price increase for R-454B, citing rising raw material costs and anticipated tariffs.
Business, Chemicals, Pricing, Manufacturing
6 points by ssuds 8 days ago | 0 comments
Tesla Cybertruck is in crisis: new discounts and throttling down production (electrek.co)
The Tesla Cybertruck is in crisis.
Tesla, Electric Vehicles, Business, Automotive, Manufacturing
15 points by LinuxBender 8 days ago | 2 comments
TSMC says it will build 'independent' chip hub in U.S. (nikkei.com)
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. plans to make 30% of the world's most cutting-edge semiconductors in Arizona to help the U.S. build an "independent" chip cluster, but said it is not in talks to form joint ventures or share technology with other chipmakers.
Semiconductors, Manufacturing, United States, Technology, International Relations
11 points by abacussh 9 days ago | 2 comments
India's Waaree to double its solar module output at its Texas factory (electrek.co)
Facing potential 40% tariffs on India-made solar modules, India’s Waaree Energies is doubling its manufacturing capacity at its Texas factory.
Solar Energy, Manufacturing, Texas, India, Trade
5 points by LinuxBender 9 days ago | 1 comments
Apple airlifted iPhones worth a record $2B from India in March (yahoo.com)
Apple's main India suppliers Foxconn and Tata shipped nearly $2 billion worth of iPhones to the United States in March, an all-time high, as the U.S. company airlifted devices to bypass President Donald Trump's impending tariffs, customs data shows.
Apple, India, Trade, Manufacturing, Tariffs
5 points by tosh 10 days ago | 0 comments
America underestimates the difficulty of bringing manufacturing back (molsonhart.com)
On April 2nd, 2025, our president announced major new taxes on imports from foreign countries (“tariffs”), ranging from 10% to 49%. The stated goal is to bring manufacturing back to the United States and to “make America wealthy again”.
Economics, Manufacturing, Trade, Politics
837 points by putzdown 11 days ago | 989 comments
AMD teases its first 2nm chip, EPYC 'Venice' fabbed on TSMC N2 node (tomshardware.com)
AMD, CPUs, Hardware, Semiconductors, Manufacturing
24 points by rbanffy 11 days ago | 0 comments
Why It's Impossible for Most Small Businesses to Manufacture in the US (wired.com)
Dallas-based small business owner Allen Walton says he just sold out of one of his products, a surveillance camera used by law enforcement and private detectives.
Manufacturing, Small Businesses, US Economy, Supply Chain
15 points by viewtransform 11 days ago | 2 comments
Amid Trump tariff chaos, Nvidia launches AI chip production on US soil (arstechnica.com)
Nvidia announced plans today to manufacture AI chips and build complete supercomputers on US soil for the first time, commissioning over one million square feet of manufacturing space across Arizona and Texas.
Artificial Intelligence, Semiconductor Industry, Manufacturing, Technology, Politics
10 points by saltysalt 12 days ago | 0 comments
Chinese solar cell manufacturer Longi sets another record with 27.81% efficiency (pv-magazine.com)
Chinese PV module maker Longi has revealed that its proprietary hybrid interdigitated back contact (HIBC) crystalline silicon solar cell based on a full-size silicon wafer has achieved a world record power conversion efficiency of 27.81%.
Solar Energy, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing, Technology, China
6 points by ck2 12 days ago | 1 comments
Nostalgia for manufacturing will make the US poorer (ft.com)
Nostalgia for manufacturing will make the US poorer
Economics, Manufacturing, United States
9 points by cmurf 12 days ago | 1 comments
Apple silent as Trump promises "impossible" US-made iPhones (arstechnica.com)
Despite a recent pause on some tariffs, Apple remains in a particularly thorny spot as Donald Trump's trade war spikes costs in the tech company's iPhone manufacturing hub, China.
Apple, Trade Wars, Manufacturing, China, Politics
18 points by whiteboardr 14 days ago | 4 comments
What's Wrong with Apple? (nytimes.com)
Even before President Trump’s tariffs threatened to upend Apple’s manufacturing business in China, the company’s struggle to make new products was leading some people inside its lavish Silicon Valley headquarters to wonder whether the company had somehow lost its magic.
Apple, Technology, Business, Manufacturing, China
24 points by marcusschuler 15 days ago | 19 comments
America underestimates the difficulty of bringing manufacturing back (freethink.com)
On April 2nd, 2025, our president announced major new taxes on imports from foreign countries (“tariffs”), ranging from 10% to 49%. The stated goal is to bring manufacturing back to the United States and to “make America wealthy again.”
Economics, Politics, Manufacturing, Trade
13 points by Brajeshwar 15 days ago | 10 comments
Federal cuts end planned $300M plastics plant and its 300 jobs (pennlive.com)
A company’s plans to build a $300 million plastics recycling plant in Erie have fallen victim to Trump administration spending cuts and tariffs.
Politics, Economics, Environment, Manufacturing
10 points by geox 15 days ago | 0 comments
How a $2k 'Made in the USA' Phone Is Manufactured (404media.co)
"You could count the number of skilled electronics engineers on US soil, and there's probably a million in Shenzhen alone."
Manufacturing, Technology, USA, China
376 points by jaredwiener 15 days ago | 465 comments
I Invented a Popular Kitchen Gadget. Tariffs Will Kill My Business. (nytimes.com)
The new tariffs on imports from China and Taiwan (and the threat of additional Chinese tariffs) are a kick in the teeth for my small family-run business, compelling me to raise my prices even as my profits are slashed.
Tariffs, Business, Economics, Manufacturing, China
6 points by bookofjoe 16 days ago | 1 comments
How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia? (twitter.com)
How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia?
Manufacturing, Costs, Nike, Asia, Footwear
697 points by taubek 17 days ago | 987 comments
Yao Yang says Chinese companies will invest abroad (eastisread.com)
In the brief interview, conducted before the “Liberation Day” tariff hike, Yao Yang reiterates a point he has been making, as The East is Read covered in October 2024, that Chinese companies are on their way to investing massively abroad in manufacturing.
China, Economics, Investment, Manufacturing
8 points by suraci 17 days ago | 0 comments
Flyover Country: What a future where iPhones are made in America would look like (bloodinthemachine.com)
When the clip of Howard Lutnick announcing his vision for post-tariff America—millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws to make iPhones—went viral, I immediately thought of “Flyover Country.”
Manufacturing, Technology, United States, Economics, Politics
26 points by awnird 17 days ago | 1 comments