Best of Hardware — May 2024

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   Community Picks·2y

   buildspace

   Various ideas for different categories, such as software, direct-to-consumer, music/art, hardware, and health & wellness.

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   The Verge·2y

   The Mac vs. PC war is back on

   Microsoft is confident it can beat Apple's own chips that power the MacBook Air, thanks to a collaboration with Qualcomm for Arm-powered laptops.

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   Hacker News·2y

   Watch Linux kernel developer write a USB driver from scratch in just 3h for Apple Xserve front-panel

   A developer demonstrates the process of writing a USB driver for the Apple Xserve front-panel in the Linux kernel. The driver controls the blinking LED lights on the front panel, showing CPU load and other information. The process is complex and requires understanding of low-level kernel code. The developer plans to continue developing the driver to integrate with a microkernel in the future.

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   MIT Technology Review·2y

   Sam Altman says helpful agents are poised to become AI’s killer function

   Sam Altman believes the killer app for AI is a super-competent colleague that knows everything about your life but doesn't feel like an extension. He thinks a new piece of hardware might not be necessary for this future, but it could still be beneficial. Altman is optimistic about finding a solution to the scarcity of training data. He believes there will be multiple versions of AGI and is uncertain about the role of computing power. Altman did not provide a specific answer about when GPT-5 will be released.

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   The New Stack·2y

   Linux: How the Kernel Interacts with Hardware

   Learn how the Linux kernel interacts with hardware components such as the CPU, RAM, storage, and network. Discover tools for displaying CPU and memory information, understanding storage partitions, checking capacity and utilization, and gathering network information.

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