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“Performance” Oryon: Qualcomm’s Little Core

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite uses a hybrid core setup, breaking away from the all-big-core strategy that the company previously used with in-house core designs.

Oxide and Friends 1:18:27

Dead Printers Tell No Tales

We've talked about Oxide's Root of Trust--the hardware underpinning the security of the product--but how do we keep a bad actor from spoofing Oxide to load malicious software? Philip Tricca joined Bryan and Adam to describe the key ceremony, the process of creating and storing the secret that plays a critical role in m...

Hackaday Podcast 1:01:59

Ep 392: Microscopes, Drones, and Other DIY Things

Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Al Williams met to review the week in Hackaday. Turns out, it was a week for tiny things, cybersecurity, nostalgia, and projects that would have been nearly impossible for the average hacker not that long ago. But first, you can hear a little about the upcoming Supercon badge and th...

Jeff Geerling

Ubiquiti's $99 Vape Detector is actually pretty good

Since learning about the effects of high CO2 concentration on attention and cognitive performance—especially at levels much higher than 2000ppm—I've started monitoring CO2 and other air quality indicators in my house, at my studio, and even on the road. I have a few other air quality monitors I'll be covering in the fu...

Marc Brooker

Animations for System Builders: Metastability and Lost Writes

Animations for System Builders: Metastability and Lost Writes Pretty pictures help us learn, maybe? MathJax = { tex: {inlineMath: [['\\(', '\\)'], ['$', '$']]} }; One of the things I love using LLMs for is helping me understand systems better. In the Strands Decider post I wrote about how I often ask ask me questions t...

Jeff Geerling

Upgrade your PHP installs immediately to protect against php2shell

This morning, two critical PHP Security Advisories were published: RCE via OOM corruption (9.2/10) RCE via stale global state (9.2/10) If you're running PHP for any service, you need to upgrade immediately to 8.2.35, 8.3.36, 8.4.27, or 8.5.12. And if you use Remi's repos on RedHat-derivative Linux distros, you need to...

Infrastructure Frontiers 1:00:30

October 19th, 2026

Industry experts run down all the AI news for engineers. Adam Jacob, Paul Stack, and Nick Stinemates are joined by engineering leader, ops nerd, former mechanical engineer, and carpenter, Matthew Dean Furlo.In this episode:Anthropic redesigns source controlGoogle's Gemini 4 ArgonMeta opens Muse SparkMeta's Muse Wonder...

Chips and Cheese

Nvidia Vera’s System Architecture: Pushing Bandwidth

Nvidia’s Vera server chip aims for high per-core performance.

Surfing Complexity

Anthropic and the changing nature of work

The research field known as cognitive systems engineering (CSE) emerged in the early 1980s as a subfield of safety science. That time period saw a dramatic rise in the use of computer-based automation for controlling safety-critical systems. One of the big ideas of CSE, I would even call it the big idea of the field, …...

Ken Shirriff

Inside the Intel 8087 chip: floating-point addition and subtraction

In 1980, Intel introduced the 8087, a chip that made floating-point operations much faster in the IBM PC and other systems. Although the 8087 supports advanced operations such as tangents, square roots, and logarithms, this article focuses on basic arithmetic operations: addition and subtraction. The 8087 provided a sp...

Oxide and Friends 1:21:31

Oxide's $445M Series D

After raising $200M in February... we raised another $445M in July! Your favorite computer company is capitalized to the gills--enough to weather the supply chain upheaval even! Come for co-founders Steve and Bryan describing the raise; stay for tax, debt, and credit talk with Scott Orn.In addition to Bryan Cantrill an...

Will Larson

Speeding up code review with `small-change`

Imprint’s average engineer is merging 4x more PRs than 2 years ago. Yay. Aggregated behind the average is something even more interesting: we have two teams that are merging 10x their PRs over that period. One engineer is merging 25x the PRs per week of our average engineer two years ago, and a number of others are clo...

Hackaday Podcast 1:08:40

Ep 391: Tuned in to ESP32 SDR, New Old Pagers, and Bugs on Mars

Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi start this episode off with a discussion about Philadelphia's budding hacker conference and the imminent retirement of the EZ80. After considering the parallels between the wide world of aviation headsets and our personal projects, talk moves on to the exciting development...

Oxide and Friends 1:26:16

Working on Wicked Problems

Wicked problems defy simple solutions. Even as we describe the problem, we may be presupposing particular solutions and narrowing scope. Our greatest, most persistent societal problems fit this model. Wicked problems may not be solvable, but progress can be made. Noah Harlan joins us to describe his technical entrepren...

Embedded 59:32

536: I've Seen a Giraffe

David Such joins us to discuss his new book, Embedded AI: Intelligence at the Deep Edge. We explore the boundary between classical signal processing, heuristics, and edge machine learning; IMU processing and sensor fusion; and how to determine what sort of ML fits on your processor. David also shares his experiences wr...

John Watson

Structure or Flexibility Was Never the Choice

I spent a long time thinking platform operations meant picking a side: a rigid framework that holds until it can't, or flexible duct tape that bends until it breaks. Today Swamp Club raised $7M in seed funding. I'd rather talk about what people built with it than the round itself.

Jeff Geerling

Formlabs dropped the Raspberry Pi on the way to a $699 SLA printer

Formlabs sent me a Form Studio 1 resin 3D printer to test after years of back-and-forth about their Form 4 printer. Like the Form 4, it's an SLA (stereolithography) printer, but unlike the Form 4 (which starts at $2,600), it's affordable for a hobbyist. It's not cheap, coming in at $699 (or $749 with a flex build platf...

Charity Majors at Honeycomb

Honeycomb Is Hiring a New VP of Engineering

Honeycomb is hiring a new VP of Engineering as Emily Nakashima moves into an operational role after nine years leading engineering. We're looking for a partner to SVP Product Graham Siener.

Infrastructure Frontiers 46:36

AI Frontiers - October 12th, 2026

Industry Experts run down all the AI news for Infrastructure Engineers. Adam Jacob, Paul Stack, and Nick Stinemates are joined by longtime business partner, Swamp co-founder, behind the scenes dynamo, and COO of Swamp Club, Mahir Lupinacci. In this episode:Ghost AI puts an AI computer in your houseArtcraft clones the A...

Ken Shirriff

Inside a 1980s filter chip that uses switched capacitors

Sometimes it's easier to identify an IC with a microscope. While sorting a box of old ICs, CuriousMarc came across some Harris ICs labeled "F1-10-5", a mysterious part number that didn't show up in any databooks. Since unidentifiable ICs are useless, he gave me one to analyze. Conveniently, it was in a ceramic package,...

Jeff Geerling

Radxa's Q8B has 2x the performance and expansion of the Pi 5

There was a time I'd look at a board like the Radxa Dragon Q8B (at left, above) and be like, "there's no way I'd spend $209 on an SBC with 8 gigs of RAM". But we're in 2026, and seeing the 8 gig Raspberry Pi 5 going for almost the same amount, I figured I'd give it a shot. On paper, the Q8B beats the Pi 5 in pretty muc...

Hackaday Podcast 49:21

Ep 390: DOOM, Cranium Stuff, and Odd OpenSCAD Opportunities

This week, Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met a few minutes later than usual, and somehow defeated a buzz together with the power of will before settling into the news, rifling through the Mailbag, and otherwise creating the attached podcast. So, the news. Amazon, in their infinite wisdom, have chosen to not only r...

charity.wtf

If your team is happy, are you doing a good job?

Brilliant jerks, ZIRP-era managers, and how psychological safety lost the plot. Part 3 of my conversation with Dr. Cat Hicks.

Fork Around and Find Out 1:05:12

Weighing the Chickens with JT Perry

Come find Justin in-person and get FAFOFM stickers!Taloscon - Amsterdam, NL - October 15-16KCD UK - Edinburgh - October 19Kubecon NA - Salt Lake City, UT - November 9-12Have an opening? HIRE AUTUMN!!! She's looking for open source, forward deployed engineer, and developer relation roles. They need to be remote or flexi...

Armin Ronacher

What is Codemode

More than a year ago I wrote a few posts here that recommended people not to load custom tools into their context (or MCP servers) but to just use more scripts. Most importantly I wrote that Code Is All You Need and I wrote about that MCP needs code. With Pi 1.0 we now added MCP support via Codemode which in some ways...

Chips and Cheese

NVIDIA’s Olympus Core: Pushing Server Single Threaded Performance Boundaries

Server chips traditionally offered less single threaded performance than contemporary client parts.

Infrastructure Frontiers 1:03:25

October 5th, 2026

Industry Experts run down all the AI news. Adam Jacob, Paul Stack, and Nick Stinemates are joined by data scientist before that was cool, former VP of Engineering at Chef, Prisma, BlaBlaCar and Calmwave, and now principal product engineer at Swamp Club, Seth Falcon.In this episode: Cal Newport says it's time to investi...

Surfing Complexity

Quick thoughts on GitHub’s Sept 23 incident

On Mastodon, Ole Peder Brandtzæg pointed me to (yet) another GitHub incident that happened back on Sept 23. The write-up is very short, so I’ll just excerpt the whole thing here (emphasis mine): Starting at 07:57 UTC on September 23, GitHub experienced elevated 500 and 404 responses across several application pages. Th...

Marc Brooker

Strands Decider: Why Not an Encoder?

Strands Decider: Why Not an Encoder? Expertise level: exhausted. MathJax = { tex: {inlineMath: [['\\(', '\\)'], ['$', '$']]} }; As I admitted in my last post, I am very much not an expert model developer. What follows is likely to be, at least partially, inaccurate. I have tried to be careful and quantitative, to parti...

Surfing Complexity

There was a light that never went out

Lex Neva (of SRE Weekly fame) pointed me to this recent GCP incident report, which describes networking issues they experienced in their us-central1 region. This incident is yet another reminder of why I don’t work in networking: I think that networking engineers are required to work within systems that are inherently...