Hardware & Electronics blogs

Ken Shirriff, an engineer with a Berkeley PhD, reverse-engineers vintage chips and computers and tears down chargers and other hardware.

Top post: Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day

NVIDIA's corporate blog covers GPUs, AI research, gaming hardware, autonomous driving, and data center products.

Top post: GauGAN Turns Doodles into Stunning, Photorealistic Landscapes

Jacques Mattheij, a Dutch software entrepreneur and HN regular, writes about projects, consulting, privacy, and his early web video company.

Top post: The Unofficial HN FAQ

SemiAnalysis is a semiconductor and AI infrastructure research firm covering chips, GPU benchmarks, training costs, and datacenter hardware.

Top post: Google "We Have No Moat, and Neither Does OpenAI" (2023)

Yossi Kreinin, a programmer and hardware engineer, writes about C++, programming languages, stack machines, and software and engineering culture.

Top post: C++ Frequently Questioned Answers (2009)

Andrew "bunnie" Huang, a hardware hacker, writes about open hardware, chip inspection, manufacturing in Shenzhen, and his legal and design projects.

Top post: On Hacking MicroSD Cards

Jeff Geerling writes about Raspberry Pi, homelab hardware, clustering, benchmarks, and Apple and Linux tinkering.

Top post: I won't connect my dishwasher to your cloud

Terence Eden is a UK developer and open data advocate who writes about web standards, gadgets, security flaws and technology policy.

Top post: The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML

Matthew Garrett is a Linux developer who writes about UEFI Secure Boot, firmware, power management, TPMs and free software licensing.

Top post: Implementing UEFI Secure Boot in Fedora

lcamtuf is Michal Zalewski, a security researcher and author of AFL and p0f who also writes about machining, electronics and robotics.

Top post: American fuzzy lop – a security-oriented fuzzer

Agner Fog publishes CPU instruction tables and optimization manuals for C++ and assembly, covering Intel, AMD and VIA processors.

Top post: Software optimization resources for C++, assembly, Windows, Linux, BSD, Mac OS

Bruce Dawson, a Chrome engineer, writes about Windows performance debugging, floating-point math, and CPU and OS bugs he has tracked down.

Top post: There are only four billion floats, so test them all (2014)

Intel's corporate newsroom, posting official announcements on processors, memory, chip manufacturing, and responses to security vulnerabilities.

Top post: Intel Responds to Security Research Findings

The Asahi Linux project, which ports Linux to Apple Silicon Macs, posts progress reports, GPU reverse engineering notes, and install information.

Top post: About

Xah Lee writes tutorials and essays on Emacs, keyboard layouts, ergonomics, Lisp, and programming languages.

Top post: History of Emacs and vi Keys (2010)

News and tutorial site on software defined radio, focused on cheap RTL-SDR dongles, software, and hobby projects.

Top post: Receiving NOAA Weather Images with SDR (2013)

ESET's security research blog, reporting on malware, rootkits, backdoors, and attacks by state-linked groups.

Top post: LoJax: First UEFI rootkit found in the wild, courtesy of the Sednit group

Adafruit, an open-source hardware company, posts product news, maker projects and commentary on tariffs, legal disputes and industry issues.

Top post: When Open Becomes Opaque: The Changing Face of Open-Source Hardware Companies

Samy Kamkar, a security researcher, shows hacking projects, including Evercookie, PoisonTap, NAT Slipstreaming, and hardware attack devices.

Top post: NAT Slipstreaming

Chips and Cheese publishes detailed technical analyses and benchmarks of CPU, GPU, and memory microarchitecture, funded through reader support.

Top post: AMD's Ryzen 9950X: Zen 5 on Desktop

Peter Ehlert's pagetable.com covers 8-bit computing history, with Commodore 64 ROM disassemblies, 6502 details and vintage source code.

Top post: C64 basic and kernal ROM disassembly

Amazon Web Services distinguished engineer who writes about data center design, AWS infrastructure, networking, and large-scale systems.

Top post: AWS Nitro System

NVIDIA's developer blog covers GPU architectures, CUDA programming, deep learning and self-driving research, and data analytics.

Top post: Volta: Advanced Data Center GPU

George Hotz, founder of comma.ai and tiny corp, writes on AI chips, AMD drivers, tinygrad, and technology.

Top post: The tiny corp raised 5M

The University of Cambridge security group, including Ross Anderson, writes about security research, payment card flaws, and hardware attacks.

Top post: Chip and Pin is Broken (Credit Card Security Issue)

John Graham-Cumming, a programmer and former Cloudflare CTO, writes about code, GNU Make, security, watches, and assorted technical projects.

Top post: Write your passwords down

Stanislav Datskovskiy writes about computing, simplicity, hardware design, and why modern software and tools fall short.

Top post: Why Man is not a Particularly Good Source of Entropy

Spritesmods is the personal site of a hardware hacker who documents projects such as hard disk firmware hacking and an IKEA LED box hack.

Top post: Spritesmods

Ken Rockwell is a photographer who writes opinionated camera reviews and photography advice on a plain, ad-free personal site.

Top post: Apple Lightning Adapter Audio Quality (2017)

Game programmer Jeff Preshing, formerly at Ubisoft, who writes on lock-free programming, memory models, C++, and hash tables.

Top post: An Introduction to Lock-Free Programming (2012)

Arm's developer blog covering processor architecture extensions, such as SVE, memory tagging, and compiler performance.

Top post: The Scalable Vector Extension (SVE) for the ARMv8-A Architecture

The OS/2 Museum covers the history of OS/2, DOS, Windows, and early PC hardware and software quirks.

Top post: Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator?

Sheldon Brown's site gathers his practical bicycle articles on repair, wheel building, tires, gearing, braking, and riding.

Top post: Braking and Turning Your Bicycle

Collabora's engineers write about open-source work on the Linux kernel, graphics, Wayland, GStreamer, eBPF, and ARM chip support.

Top post: Using the Linux kernel's Case-insensitive feature in Ext4

Quarkslab is a French security firm whose engineers publish reverse-engineering and vulnerability research on firmware, chipsets, obfuscation, and OS internals.

Top post: iMessage Privacy

Valve's company blog hosted posts by staff such as Michael Abrash and economist Yanis Varoufakis on AR/VR, game economies, and company culture.

Top post: We Won’t See Hard AR Anytime Soon (2012)

Matthias Wandel's site on woodworking projects, homemade machines, and engineering-minded tools such as bandsaws, marble machines, and puzzles.

Top post: Binary marble adding machine

Joshua Stein writes about OpenBSD on laptops, hardware hacking, retro projects, and software he builds.

Top post: OpenBSD on the Framework Laptop

The official blog of Arduino, covering product announcements, partnerships, software releases, and community maker projects.

Top post: Send in the (Arduino) clones

Dmitry Grinberg is an embedded engineer who documents hardware hacks, such as running Linux on an 8-bit microcontroller and Palm OS on other devices.

Top post: Linux on an 8-bit micro

Pete Warden is a machine learning engineer who writes about TensorFlow, quantization, edge AI and reproducibility, and co-founded Useful Sensors.

Top post: Why Are Eight Bits Enough for Deep Neural Networks?

David Kriesel is a German computer scientist who writes about data analysis, neural networks, and technical investigations like Xerox scanner errors.

Top post: Xerox scanners and photocopiers randomly alter numbers in scanned documents

Rodney Brooks, a roboticist and MIT professor emeritus, writes about robotics, AI hype, and scored predictions on technology.

Top post: My Dated Predictions

Hugo Landau writes technical essays on security, cryptography, hardware architecture, reverse engineering and internet history.

Top post: The PowerPC as Tagged Memory Extensions

Shift was a Medium publication from NewCo covering technology, cities, Facebook and business, including a guide to Shenzhen's Huaqiangbei electronics market.

Top post: What $50 Buys You at Huaqiangbei, the World’s Most Fascinating Electronic Market

Oona Räsänen writes about signal processing and radio, decoding odd signals, audio and images, and hardware hacks such as pagers and dialup sounds.

Top post: The sound of the dialup, pictured (2012)

mitxela is a hobbyist who builds electronics and music projects, such as synths, clocks, pendants and tiny displays, and documents them in detail.

Top post: Stylophone: ATtiny Xylophone Business Card

Steve Chamberlin builds retro hardware projects such as homebrew CPUs, Floppy Emu and 68000 Linux on a breadboard.

Top post: Explaining 4K 60Hz Video Through USB-C Hub

Mill Computing publishes documents and talks on the Mill, a new general-purpose CPU architecture, covering its security and programming model.

Top post: Docs

Ray Maker reviews sports tech in depth, covering GPS watches, bike computers, and fitness trackers, with many photos and detailed testing.

Top post: Komoot acquired history says this wont end well

Peter Kirn's Create Digital Music covers music technology news, including synths, audio software, plug-in formats, and industry changes.

Top post: Clap: New MIT license audio plug-in format from Bitwig

Ferrous Systems, a Rust consultancy, posts about Rust for embedded and safety-critical software, including the Ferrocene toolchain and its specification.

Top post: Ferrocene – Rust for Critical Systems

iFixit's blog publishes teardowns and repairability analyses of consumer electronics, especially Apple products.

Top post: Inside Apple’s New Audio Adapter

GPUOpen is AMD's developer site for GPU programming documentation, ROCm tools, graphics techniques, and open source GPU software.

Top post: AMD GPU architecture programming documentation

Geoff Greer, a programmer and creator of the Silver Searcher, writes about developer tools, Vim, ThinkPad hardware mods, and software.

Top post: Why Neovim Is Better Than Vim

Chris "Monty" Montgomery of Xiph.Org writes about digital audio and open video codecs such as Daala, Theora, and AV1.

Top post: There is no point to distributing music in 24-bit/192kHz format.

Tim Dettmers, a deep learning researcher, writes hardware guides on choosing GPUs for deep learning, plus posts on transformers and AGI.

Top post: Brain vs. Deep Learning (2015)

Rodrigo Copetti writes detailed architecture breakdowns of video game consoles, covering CPUs, graphics hardware, and how games ran on them.

Top post: Architecture of the Playstation

Evil Mad Scientist, a small electronics kit maker, posts about its hardware projects, such as the MOnSter 6502, plotters, and circuit kits.

Top post: Microwave Oven Diagnostics with Indian Snack Food

Company blog from Lambda, a GPU cloud and deep learning hardware vendor, with GPU benchmarks, cost comparisons and a GPT-3 overview.

Top post: OpenAI's GPT-3 Language Model: A Technical Overview