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Alphabet's Waymo Has Built a Custom Chip for Its Robotaxis

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-20/google-s-waymo-has-built-a-custom-chip-for-its-robotaxis
2•drtz•27m ago

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drtz•27m ago
Archive link: https://archive.is/pi8xy

> The chip is made using Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s 5-nanometer technique, Waymo said.

It's great to see alternatives to NVIDIA chips coming up, but this really highlights the underlying bottleneck that is TSMC's dominance in the manufacturing of these devices.

ChrisArchitect•17m ago
Source: https://waymo.com/blog/2026/08/look-under-our-trunk/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49374853)

LG Display Develops New OLED Panels with More Brightness and Longer Lifespans

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnarcher/2026/08/19/lg-display-develops-new-oled-panels-with-more-...
1•ksec•40s ago•0 comments

Clicks Communicator: First Look [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMNdr8dV23A
1•hliyan•49s ago•0 comments

What breaks when you switch LLMs?

https://www.evalshift.dev/blog/what-breaks-when-you-switch-llms
1•babaliauskas•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: The First 3D Map of North America's Underground Geology

https://drillerdb.com/underground
1•craig_vg•2m ago•0 comments

StateM Proposed Harness Scaling, Got No.1 on HuggingFace Daily Paper

https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.15089
1•ZihengQin•4m ago•0 comments

Bulgaria's Nuclear Plant Plans First Output Cut Due to Low Danube

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-20/bulgaria-s-nuclear-plant-plans-first-output-cu...
1•toomuchtodo•5m ago•0 comments

DuckDB v2.0: Your Database Deserves a Better Parser

https://duckdb.org/2026/08/20/duckdb-20-peg-parser
1•DanieltenW•6m ago•0 comments

Going Freestanding

https://antonz.org/going-freestanding/
1•matheusmoreira•8m ago•0 comments

Top Open Source MCP Gateways in 2026

https://www.getmaxim.ai/articles/top-5-open-source-mcp-gateways-in-2026/
1•aanthonymax•8m ago•0 comments

AI for science needs reasoning, not just data – Eric Schmidt and Suhas Mahesh

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/10/1141384/ai-agents-for-science/
1•unprovable•8m ago•0 comments

Why can't you combine .tar.gz files with cat?

https://alexwlchan.net/2026/cat-confusion/
1•speckx•8m ago•0 comments

Same Tencent VPS plan in 8 regions: identical CPU different networks

https://webbynode.com/articles/tencent-same-vps-plan-8-regions-network-performance
1•gsgreen•10m ago•0 comments

Under Trump, Protected Wild Horses Are Going to Slaughter

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/us/trump-wild-horses-legal-loophole-slaughter.html
2•giwook•10m ago•0 comments

I'm done coding with AI [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZU3j4GQ4K8
2•qwertox•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Pacer – Realtime Claude Code Usage Tracking / Pacing

https://github.com/EricAndrechek/Pacer
1•jwoodsworks•11m ago•1 comments

Everyone Says Assembly Is Untyped–Everyone Is Wrong

https://www.gingerbill.org/article/2026/08/20/designing-odins-inline-asm/
1•adamrezich•12m ago•0 comments

On Mount Etna, Lightning Has Claimed More Lives Than Eruptions Since 1980

https://www.discovermagazine.com/on-mount-etna-lightning-has-claimed-more-lives-than-eruptions-si...
2•bookofjoe•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: RecoveryCodes – MFA inventory for auth outside IdPs

https://recoverycodes.eu/
2•CER10TY•14m ago•1 comments

We Ship Our Security Webhook Fail-Open

https://pandocore.io/blog/fail-open-webhook
2•eaferstl•16m ago•0 comments

Music Theory for Programmers

https://runjs.app/blog/music-theory-for-programmers
4•birdculture•17m ago•0 comments

Firefox Extensions Linked to Crypto Wallet and Credential Theft

https://socket.dev/blog/firefox-crypto-wallet-theft
2•speckx•17m ago•0 comments

Google Cloud us-west1 down

7•anurag•17m ago•4 comments

Google Maps adds agentic features, including food ordering and hotel bookings

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/06/google-maps-adds-agentic-features-including-food-ordering-and-h...
2•toomuchtodo•19m ago•0 comments

No, Anthropic Won't Be the Only Company Left

https://forwardfuture.com/newsletter/originals/no-anthropic-won-t-be-the-only-company-left
2•the-mitr•20m ago•0 comments

Cognition and consciousness arise from analog computations, says new theory

https://picower.mit.edu/news/cognition-and-consciousness-arise-analog-computations-says-new-theory
4•arto•21m ago•0 comments

Building a Quantum Computer, One Fragile Qubit at a Time

https://www.quantamagazine.org/building-a-quantum-computer-one-fragile-qubit-at-a-time-20260819/
2•pykello•25m ago•0 comments

Grok exfiltrates user data when malicious instructions are encrypted

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/08/grok-exfiltrates-user-data-when-malicious-instructions-a...
3•sbulaev•27m ago•0 comments

Alphabet's Waymo Has Built a Custom Chip for Its Robotaxis

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-20/google-s-waymo-has-built-a-custom-chip-for-its...
2•drtz•27m ago•2 comments

Show HN: BookSkim, ePub reader with "anchor" mode for low attention spans

https://sakshikapoor.github.io/bookskim-site/
2•jatins•28m ago•0 comments

Children who lose a parent twice as likely to develop mental health disorders

https://www.curtin.edu.au/news/media-release/children-who-lose-a-parent-twice-as-likely-to-develo...
1•downbad_•28m ago•0 comments