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Earlier sources: Hardware
Hardware is the physical foundation of computing: chips, sensors, devices, networks, and the processes that manufacture them. Follow semiconductor research, compute architectures, and engineering developments alongside their software and energy connections.
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Open in the map ↗539 classified signals in the fourteen-day window. Recent momentum: steady. These counts include signals awaiting readable evidence.
Earlier sources
Up to ten sources with readable evidence, ordered by their feed timestamp. These archive sources can be older than the live fourteen-day window. This list is a sample, not a measure of total activity. Dates distinguish paper publication, repository creation, model/dataset activity, Hacker News posts, and KEV catalog additions. “First archived” records when SYMTRI first stored the signal.
- OpenAlex · Published · First archived
The GPU Resilience Lottery: Understanding and Taming Real-World Hardware Errors in Heterogeneous AI Infrastructure ↗
The booming LLM demand is driving a rapid increase in the scale and heterogeneity of modern AI infrastructure. To achieve high availability for sustained LLM workloads, infrastructure providers must contend with frequent and severe hardware errors. Without a holistic resilience understanding, providers may inadvertently schedule AI jobs onto GPUs with high error risks and mitigate errors with significant costs, further degrading cluster availability. As a result, AI jobs are forced to ‘win’ a GPU resilience lottery for interruption-free execution. However, betting on a winning ticket, i.e., se…
- OpenAlex · Published · First archived
Energy-efficient clustering and mobile sink routing in wireless sensor networks using quantum-inspired optimization and deep learning ↗
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) require energy-efficient clustering and adaptive routing to maintain reliable communication and prolong network lifetime under varying node density, initial energy, communication range, packet size, residual energy, routing distance, latency, and mobile-sink conditions. However, conventional clustering and routing methods generally optimize these aspects separately, resulting in inefficient energy distribution, increased routing overhead, unstable sink mobility, and reduced network sustainability. To address these limitations, this work proposes an integrated fr…
- OpenAlex · Published · First archived
Volitional control of wearable robots ↗
This Comment motivates the development of human–machine interfaces that decode spinal motor neuron activity and resulting muscle force information in moving humans. Such interfaces could enable users across the neuromuscular functional spectrum to volitionally control wearable robots with muscle-like behaviour.
- Europe PMC · Published · First archived
Agent-optimized GPU polygenic scoring at cohort scale ↗
A polygenic score (PGS) is a unitless weighted sum of allele dosages, interpretable only as a percentile within a reference distribution. Evaluating risk across models requires scoring each individual against a whole reference panel, but current CPU pipelines process targets or models sequentially, making full cross-product calculations prohibitively expensive. We reformulated PGS calculation as a cohort-wide sparse matrix product on a GPU and optimized it via an autonomous coding agent under read-only inputs, cold starts, and strict numerical validation against pgsc_calc. The scorer was "trai
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
Show HN: Gutsy – small decision model for CPU (500MB), get probabilities back ↗
Hacker News discussion.
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
Semantic Compute: From Interpreters to Compilers ↗
Hacker News discussion.
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB by Cactus Compute ↗
Hacker News discussion.
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
How I think about meaning: and my sneaky tricks for manufacturing more of it ↗
Hacker News discussion.
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
Used CPU might come with someone else's Valorant ban ↗
Hacker News discussion.
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
Llmtobinary – a hypothetical chip "design", custom instruction set, might work ↗
Hacker News discussion.
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