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71 titles from 66 authors in the last 30 days, with 70 distinct links and 11 Show HN.

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• Show HN: Llmspeed – feel how fast a local LLM runs before you buy the hardware · score 7.0

  Llmspeed is a web tool that simulates the real-time performance of local LLMs on various hardware configurations, including time to first token and tokens per second. It uniquely combines measured benchmarks with first-principles modeling to provide estimates even for hardware without existing benchmarks, helping users decide on hardware purchases for running LLMs locally.

• Show HN: Chiplab - Give your AI agent access to virtual hardware · score 7.0

  Chiplab is a hosted MCP service that lets AI coding agents build, upload, and run firmware on virtual instances of real microcontrollers (STM32, Nordic) to validate embedded code without physical hardware. It bridges AI agents and embedded development by exposing a simple UART-output contract, enabling rapid firmware iteration directly from the agent loop.

• Show HN: MCP for Your Mac Hardware · score 6.8

  MacMonitor is a native macOS menu-bar app that reads Apple Silicon hardware sensors (SMC, IOReport, HID, NVMe SMART) to show live temperature, CPU/GPU usage, fan speed, and power, with history and alerts. It also exposes an MCP server so AI agents like Claude and Codex can query the same sensor data, filling a gap between hardware observability and AI tooling. Notable for being read-only, privacy-preserving, and well-documented despite being a small solo project.

• Show HN: Bringing in usb3 to raspberry pico [open hardware] · score 6.3

  An open hardware board combining a Raspberry Pi RP2350B with a WCH CH569W to provide USB 3.0 SuperSpeed streaming from a microcontroller, plus a logic analyzer and SD card interface. The design is fully routed, documented, and includes production files, making it a practical reference for high-speed USB on low-cost MCUs.

Recent titles

1. Talking Hardware with Palmer Luckey
   2026-11-01 · a16zfrontier.substack.com · HN discussion
2. Trezor warns of suspected crypto-theft implant in hardware wallet
   2026-10-31 · bleepingcomputer.com · HN discussion
3. VX100 and AXM2 Reference for DIY AI Hardware Projects
   2026-10-31 · github.com · HN discussion
4. Language models running locally on hardware that has no business running them
   2026-10-30 · github.com · HN discussion
5. Show HN: MCP for Your Mac Hardware
   2026-10-30 · github.com · HN discussion
6. Ask HN: Are you putting off hardware upgrades because of AI coding tools?
   2026-10-30 · HN discussion
7. Unshittify: A log of owners reclaiming hardware from dead clouds and lock-in
   2026-10-29 · unshittify.dev · HN discussion
8. AI hardware can be hacked so chatbots provide dangerous answers, research shows
   2026-10-29 · cnn.com · HN discussion
9. Hardware Crackmes: 100 GameBoy Advance Games
   2026-10-28 · remyhax.xyz · HN discussion
10. Keystone to destroy 18k hardware wallets due to hacked authentication key
    2026-10-28 · twitter.com · HN discussion
11. DAC-peq-manager: WebHID and Rust hardware PEQ flasher for USB DACs
    2026-10-26 · github.com · HN discussion
12. Show HN: Bringing in usb3 to raspberry pico [open hardware]
    2026-10-24 · github.com · HN discussion
13. Comma Hardware
    2026-10-23 · twitter.com · HN discussion
14. Superhuman Hardware Design Is the Easy Part
    2026-10-23 · a16z.news · HN discussion
15. A Strongly Worded Letter: Mistakes Claude Makes with Hardware in the Loop
    2026-10-23 · groundrun.io · HN discussion
16. How to turn consumer hardware into AI infra
    2026-10-23 · neurogrid.cc · HN discussion
17. Show HN: What LLM fits my GPU? – VRAM measured on real hardware for 117 models
    2026-10-23 · quantized.uk · HN discussion
18. Starbound Labs – Building drone light show hardware and software together
    2026-10-22 · starboundlabs.com · HN discussion
19. Version Control for Hardware Projects
    2026-10-22 · landing-page-synckit.vercel.app · HN discussion
20. Advanced Shader Delivery Is Available Now Across Hardware
    2026-10-21 · devblogs.microsoft.com · HN discussion
21. Why Hardware Specialization Is Back
    2026-10-21 · a16z.news · HN discussion
22. LiveFrame – measure what video world models deliver on your hardware
    2026-10-21 · github.com · HN discussion
23. UALink – Ultra Accelerator Link – Open-Source/Hardware Alternative to NVLink
    2026-10-21 · en.wikipedia.org · HN discussion
24. I Built a Stereo Vision Board for Hardware Hackers
    2026-10-20 · rootkitlabs.com · HN discussion
25. Why hardware specialization is back
    2026-10-20 · twitter.com · HN discussion
26. Deriving Efficient Hardware in the Bluespec Style
    2026-10-20 · stng.substack.com · HN discussion
27. ESP-Mosaico means infinite possibilities to open source hardware [video]
    2026-10-20 · youtube.com · HN discussion
28. Ask HN: Bring-your-own-AI hardware
    2026-10-19 · HN discussion
29. USB-C Magnetic Connect Hardware and Compatibility
    2026-10-19 · lttlabs.com · HN discussion
30. Maxwell: A new kind of model that sits between code and hardware
    2026-10-19 · heymaxwell.ai · HN discussion

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