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Hot Chips 2026: Intel’s Wildcat Lake

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Hot Chips 2026: CUDA Targets RISC-V

CUDA is the most important software framework in the GPU compute world, and Nvidia is looking at supporting CUDA on RISC-V. Terms and conditions may apply.

Infrastructure Frontiers 1:10:02

August 24th, 2026

Industry Experts run down all the AI news for Infrastructure Engineers. Adam Jacob, Paul Stack, and Nick Stinemates are joined by James Governor of RedMonk fame.In this episode: * Scott Tolinski of Syntax.fm puts up a great podcast about the mental health crisis nobody is talking about in AI * Stripe acquires OpenRoute...

Armin Ronacher

Anger, Anxiety and Agency

Sean Goedecke wrote a post arguing that you should never be angry at work — a post with which I strongly agree. Anger can be a useful signal, but being angry at work rarely improves the situation. More often, it makes life worse for the people around you, many of whom have no more power over the source of your anger th...

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Hot Chips 2026: Applying High Bandwidth Flash (HBF)

Machine learning workloads have an insatiable appetite for DRAM capacity. Flash memory is cheaper per gigabyte of capacity than DRAM. Could it offer a way out?

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Hot Chips 2026: Samsung and HBM Base Die Opportunities

Machine learning applications demand ever more memory capacity and bandwidth. Samsung responded by fabricating their HBM base dies on a logic node, which opens up more opportunities

Surfing Complexity

Wild AI-related reliability incidents are coming

Recently, two AI-related pieces of content caught my attention. The first was the blog post On-Call is Now Theatre by Boris Tane. He argues that AI agents are now capable of doing the majority of on-call work that is currently being done by humans, and that we should have AI agents act as first responders. … Continue r...

Fork Around and Find Out 1:07:24

Flying through The Atmosphere with Dan Abermov

Come find Justin in-person and get FAFOFM stickers!Tailscale Up - San Francisco, CA - August 26Devopsdays - Portland, OR - September 8-10. Get 20% off tickets with FAFOFMEdgecase - Gooiland Hilversum, NL - September 24Taloscon - Amsterdam, NL - October 15-16KCD UK - Edinburgh - October 19Kubecon NA - Salt Lake City, UT...

Armin Ronacher

Fast and Hard Code

One of the memes on Twitter is that “programming is solved now.” I’m not sure to what degree it is, but one thing is pretty clear: the act of familiarizing yourself with a language no longer matters and some of the friction that mattered for humans does not matter for agents. As a result, LLMs make language choice much...

Hackaday Podcast 1:27:44

Ep 383: QR Codes, Caving Gear, and the Old School Way to Learn Electronics

In this week's episode, Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi start things off by getting excited about the recently announced 2026 Retrocomputing Challenge. From there the conversation will cover efforts to improve desktop 3D printing with lasers, an expensive grill with an ESP32 controller and an open source...

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532: It's Still Real Fire

Kevin Santo Cappuccio, founder of Architeuthis Flux, joins the show to discuss creating Jumperless, an open-source breadboard that replaces physical jumper wires with software-controlled analog crossbar switches. We explore the need for 445 RGB LEDs on a breadboard, using MicroPython to create scriptable circuits, some...

John Watson

6 Learnings from 12,000 Agentic Code Reviews

Mature organisations monitor CI/CD efficiency and PR bounce-back rates. In the agentic world, how can you measure the performance and efficiency of your software factory?

Charity Majors at Honeycomb

AI Norms & Values, Part 1 of 3: How We Do Business at Honeycomb

It's been a year since Honeycomb issued its AI mandate. Charity reflects on what that produced, why AI isn't special (it just amplifies what's already there), and shares the first of three new documents on Honeycomb's AI norms and values: how we do business.

Jeff Geerling

Getting the Steam Deck LCD working on a Raspberry Pi

The BOE TV070WXM-TV0 LCD used in the original Steam Deck can be had for around $30. It's a serviceable 7" touchscreen with 400 nits of brightness and a resolution of 1280x800 (for a sharp 216 ppi). The specs are a lot nicer than the Pi 7" Touch Display, which costs twice as much, with giant bezels and half the resoluti...

Jeff Geerling

Hands-on with Raspberry Pi's CM5 Programming Jig

In the before-times, when Raspberry Pi CM5s were (relatively) affordable, I built a number of Pi clusters (example), and one of the most annoying parts of the build was flashing Raspberry Pi OS to all the Pis. One, two, or even three Pis isn't a big deal, but once you hit 4+, the process of plugging the Compute Module...

Armin Ronacher

What Is Reasoning

A few weeks ago a paper was shared that showed how to extract reasoning traces from closed-weight models. Together with online discussions about tricking models into leaking them, it made me investigate it more out of curiosity. Twitter seems full of half-truths and confusion about how this works, so perhaps this helps...

Hackaday Podcast 51:46

Ep 382: Glueballs, Borg Cubes, and Supersonic Trebuchets

It's still hot on both sides of the Atlantic, but Kristina has a new secret weapon for staying cool without making noise. Will Elliot and the others follow suit? Time will tell. In Hackaday news, well, there's a lot of it. For starters, Supercon Ten tickets went on sale Thursday morning, but chances are good that by th...

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Talking with Synopsys about the Physics of Chip Design at DAC 2026

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Will Larson

Roadmap decisions rather than dates.

One thing that bothered me about Imprint’s product after joining was our lack of passkey support. Passkey support is a rare opportunity to increase resiliency to phishing attacks while simultaneously reducing login friction. If it’s good for our members, our partners, and our product, it felt like something we should h...

Infrastructure Frontiers 56:46

August 10th, 20206

Industry Experts run down all the AI news for Infrastructure Engineers. Adam Jacob, Paul Stack, and Nick Stinemates are joined by one of the longest serving sages of operations, old friend, advisor, and wonderful human John Willis. In this episode: * The Ars Notoria gives a preview of AI Psychosis * Ankur Sethi types a...

Hackaday Podcast 56:03

Ep 381: Airless Tires, Full-color Prints, and 28 MW of LEDs

This week's Hackaday podcast is a European affair again, as Elliot Williams is joined by Jenny List on a summer evening to review the week. And we have a feast of hacks for your delectation. As the title above says, one of the stand-out hacks this week was a set of airless mountain bike tyres 3D printed in glorious flu...

Will Larson

Middle management roles are also a trap.

Six years ago, I wrote Tech Lead Management roles are a trap. My argument then was that TLM roles present themselves as easier than moving into a full management role, but the tension between doing the software engineering and engineering management aspects of the role made being a TLM a much harder first management ro...

Jeff Geerling

I'm excited for Intel after testing the XPS 13

Shortly after Apple launched the budget MacBook Neo, Dell announced their response, a new low-end XPS 13. Matching the Neo's current pricing, it starts at $699, or $599 with an educational discount. That discount is currently set to expire on November 2, and with the current component pricing insanity, I'd be surprised...

John Watson

The End of Vendor Lock-in

Four architectures in six weeks, under live production traffic, with no maintenance window. We didn't see any of the infrastructure requirements coming, and it didn't matter.

Embedded 1:07:02

531: Sequestering the Mess

Elecia and Christopher celebrate winning the IEEE Educational Activities Board Meritorious Achievement Award in Outreach and Informal Education! A huge thank you to Mark Omo and the wonderful listeners who submitted nomination letters. Chris and Elecia talk about learning Hungarian to qualify Chris for an EU passport....

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NVIDIA’s Vera Whitepaper Has a Thread Loose

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Jeff Geerling

Proxmox officially supports Arm, with some caveats

Proxmox today announced their Proxmox Virtual Environment is now available for 64-bit ARM. I tested it on my Ampere Altra Dev Platform—the same machine on which I've booted Windows on Arm the first time, messed with multiple GPUs, and most recently tested Houdini's native arm64 support. Install was easy, as the Ampere...

Infrastructure Frontiers 25:38

August 3rd, 2026

Industry Experts run down all the AI news for Infrastructure Engineers. Adam Jacob, Paul Stack, and Nick Stinemates are joined by infrastructure engineering legend Sean Escriva. In this episode:Dan Lorenc phases out code review at ChainguardGithub launches stacked PRsOpenAI reduces the price of 5.6 Luna and TerraPaul S...

Ken Shirriff

Energizing a vacuum-tube flip-flop module from a 1948 IBM system

In 1948, IBM introduced the 604 Electronic Calculating Punch. This machine was a programmable calculator, about the size of a double refrigerator. It was not quite a computer, but was programmed by plugging wires into a plugboard. This machine read numbers from a punch card, performed up to 60 calculations on these num...

Hackaday Podcast 1:05:09

Ep 380: 3D Printing the Rainbow, IR and IP Camera Hacks, and Americium 241 on the Loose

Elliot Williams and Al Williams got together to compare notes on the most interesting posts this week on the site. As usual, there are just too many choices, so you'll have to settle for just the few that can fit in a podcast. The guys were excited about 3D printing -- both FDM and SLA -- as well as a few camera projec...