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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 ↗531 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
High-density optical quantum sensors with pulsed probe read-out for correlated spin-noise reduction ↗
Abstract Optical quantum sensors based on alkali-metal atoms enable highly sensitive magnetic-field measurements in warm vapor. Their performance can become limited by intrinsic spin noise once technical noise sources are sufficiently suppressed. Characterizing temporal spin correlations is therefore important both for optimizing sensor sensitivity and for investigating quantum-enhanced sensing protocols. Here we investigate correlated spin fluctuations in a radio-frequency optical quantum sensor based on a high-density potassium vapor cell using pulsed probe readout. Orthogonal pump and probe…
- OpenAlex · Published · First archived
Selective sparsity–enhanced synchronization in disordered semiconductor laser networks ↗
Biological networks tend to leverage selective sparsity as an economic strategy to optimize function while minimizing wiring costs. In contrast, achieving synchronization in engineered systems such as semiconductor laser arrays is traditionally expected to require resource-intensive coupling to overcome intrinsic frequency disorders. We demonstrate that selectively coupled sparse networks can outperform fully connected architectures, achieving near-complete synchronization with a significantly reduced coupling budget. Using an evolutionary algorithm, we identify a “pairing opposites” principle…
- GitHub · Repository created · First archived
amir1387aht/MicroCS ↗
Modern C# for microcontrollers: a tiny C# compiler + bytecode VM in portable C99 (16 KB RAM, 64 KB flash). ESP32, RP2040/RP2350, STM32, nRF52, Zephyr, Arduino. REPL, browser IDE, update scripts without reflashing.
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates ↗
Hacker News discussion.
- GitHub · Repository created · First archived
lucapgt/edgedecision ↗
Local voice control for Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi 5: streaming speech-to-text (EdgeSTT) and a small non-generative decision engine (EdgeDecision). 9 languages, no cloud, no LLM.
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
European Processor Initiative Concluded ↗
Hacker News discussion.
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
I think I'm done with the Raspberry Pi ↗
Hacker News discussion.
- GitHub · Repository created · First archived
hey-its-brian/tab5-cyberdeck ↗
DECK//OS: cyberpunk cyberdeck firmware for the M5Stack Tab5 + Tab5 Keyboard (ESP32-P4, LVGL 9)
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
Sdrtop – Terminal monitor for SDR hardware ↗
Hacker News discussion.
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Back to the Future: Rethinking EDA Infrastructure for Agentic Systems in Chip Design Verification ↗
The unprecedented computational scale of modern artificial intelligence depends on complex, multi-billion-transistor Systems-on-Chip, yet the workflows that verify these chips remain stubbornly manual. Although Large Language Models (LLMs) have made rapid inroads into Electronic Design Automation (EDA), approximately 74.6% of existing studies target static Register-Transfer Level (RTL) code generation, leaving post-simulation verification and interactive waveform debugging largely untouched. We introduce Back-to-the-Future (BTTF), an end-to-end agentic framework that closes this infrastructura…
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