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Google demonstrates 'verifiable quantum advantage' with their Willow processor

https://blog.google/technology/research/quantum-echoes-willow-verifiable-quantum-advantage/
105•AbhishekParmar•1h ago•56 comments

Cryptographic Issues in Cloudflare's Circl FourQ Implementation (CVE-2025-8556)

https://www.botanica.software/blog/cryptographic-issues-in-cloudflares-circl-fourq-implementation
80•botanica_labs•2h ago•19 comments

Linux Capabilities Revisited

https://dfir.ch/posts/linux_capabilities/
75•Harvesterify•2h ago•12 comments

Designing software for things that rot

https://drobinin.com/posts/designing-software-for-things-that-rot/
72•valzevul•18h ago•8 comments

MinIO stops distributing free Docker images

https://github.com/minio/minio/issues/21647#issuecomment-3418675115
445•LexSiga•10h ago•267 comments

AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/new-ebu-research-ai-assistants-news-content
199•sohkamyung•2h ago•149 comments

The security paradox of local LLMs

https://quesma.com/blog/local-llms-security-paradox/
48•jakozaur•3h ago•36 comments

SourceFS: A 2h+ Android build becomes a 15m task with a virtual filesystem

https://www.source.dev/journal/sourcefs
46•cdesai•3h ago•16 comments

Die shots of as many CPUs and other interesting chips as possible

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Birdman86
132•uticus•4d ago•26 comments

Internet's biggest annoyance: Cookie laws should target browsers, not websites

https://nednex.com/en/the-internets-biggest-annoyance-why-cookie-laws-should-target-browsers-not-...
333•SweetSoftPillow•4h ago•391 comments

French ex-president Sarkozy begins jail sentence

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgkm2j0xelo
265•begueradj•10h ago•344 comments

Go subtleties

https://harrisoncramer.me/15-go-sublteties-you-may-not-already-know/
149•darccio•1w ago•104 comments

Tesla Recalls Almost 13,000 EVs over Risk of Battery Power Loss

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-22/tesla-recalls-almost-13-000-evs-over-risk-of-b...
135•zerosizedweasle•3h ago•114 comments

Infracost (YC W21) Hiring First Dev Advocate to Shift FinOps Left

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/infracost/jobs/NzwUQ7c-senior-developer-advocate
1•akh•4h ago

Patina: a Rust implementation of UEFI firmware

https://github.com/OpenDevicePartnership/patina
65•hasheddan•1w ago•12 comments

Farming Hard Drives (2012)

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze_drive_farming/
12•floriangosse•6d ago•3 comments

Evaluating the Infinity Cache in AMD Strix Halo

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/evaluating-the-infinity-cache-in
121•zdw•12h ago•51 comments

Show HN: Cadence – A Guitar Theory App

https://cadenceguitar.com/
135•apizon•1w ago•29 comments

The Dragon Hatchling: The missing link between the transformer and brain models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26507
110•thatxliner•3h ago•65 comments

Greg Newby, CEO of Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, has died

https://www.pgdp.net/wiki/In_Memoriam/gbnewby
352•ron_k•7h ago•59 comments

Cigarette-smuggling balloons force closure of Lithuanian airport

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/22/cigarette-smuggling-balloons-force-closure-vilnius-...
49•n1b0m•3h ago•17 comments

Sequoia COO quit over Shaun Maguire's comments about Mamdani

https://www.ft.com/content/8e6de299-3eb6-4ba9-8037-266c55c02170
15•amrrs•48m ago•10 comments

Knocker, a knock based access control system for your homelab

https://github.com/FarisZR/knocker
49•xlmnxp•7h ago•74 comments

LLMs can get "brain rot"

https://llm-brain-rot.github.io/
446•tamnd•1d ago•274 comments

Ghostly swamp will-O'-the-wisps may be explained by science

https://www.snexplores.org/article/swamp-gas-methane-will-o-wisp-chemistry
23•WaitWaitWha•1w ago•10 comments

Distributed Ray-Tracing

https://www.4rknova.com//blog/2019/02/24/distributed-raytracing
21•ibobev•5d ago•7 comments

Starcloud

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/starcloud/
129•jonbaer•5h ago•170 comments

Power over Ethernet (PoE) basics and beyond

https://www.edn.com/poe-basics-and-beyond-what-every-engineer-should-know/
216•voxadam•6d ago•170 comments

rlsw – Raylib software OpenGL renderer in less than 5k LOC

https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/blob/master/src/external/rlsw.h
228•fschuett•19h ago•87 comments

Ask HN: Our AWS account got compromised after their outage

364•kinj28•1d ago•87 comments
Open in hackernews

Die shots of as many CPUs and other interesting chips as possible

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Birdman86
132•uticus•4d ago

Comments

roflmaostc•4h ago
Someone should sponsor that guy a gigapixel microscope such as those

https://gallery.ramonaoptics.com/gallery/viewer/42009871001#...

7222aafdcf68cfe•4h ago
If you're into this, and enjoy more details, many more get published weekly on Mastodon under the #nakeddiefriday tag - https://infosec.exchange/tags/nakeddiefriday
rft•4h ago
Another great resource is this site: https://misdake.github.io/ChipAnnotationViewer/?map=Zeppelin... It has a Google Maps like interface for exploring die shots and even some annotated versions of chips.
7373737373•4h ago
See also: https://siliconpr0n.org/
ttoinou•4h ago
Reminds me of Koooooooyanisqatsi
mrcsharp•4h ago
I'm always fascinated by how brilliant us humans can be. So much so that we can put billions of transistors in very small spaces and in complex structures while also mass producing it.

I highly recommend watching this video about lithography and the machine that makes it all possible [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2482h_TNwg

solarwindy•28m ago
Outstanding video, thank you. No wonder this took months’ worth of research and animation to make.
guerrilla•3h ago
Which one of the CPUs do you think looks the cleanest, aesthetically? The first Alpha looks rather chaotic, while the Samsung Alpha looks very uniform. That TI PA-7000 FPC looks like chaos. I think the two PowerPCs look the best, which is what I'd expect too. Well, actually I'd expect some of the other RISC to look simpler too...
gblargg•1h ago
I was also fixed on PowerPC after noticing how regular the dies were. Cache on the right, then what looks like bank after bank of fairly uniform control logic. It's almost like they decided on a general structure and fit everything into this, rather than letting things organically form as needed.
potato-peeler•3h ago
Are there any shots of audio amplifiers?
phkahler•3h ago
>> Are there any shots of audio amplifiers?

https://www.righto.com/2020/06/reverse-engineering-and-compa...

https://www.righto.com/2019/02/op-amp-on-moon-reverse-engine...

https://www.righto.com/2018/06/silicon-die-analysis-op-amp-w...

potato-peeler•3h ago
Realistically, are these enough to replicate the chips?
dfox•2h ago
Mostly no. You do not see the lower layers and for anything sub 1um or so the resolution is too poor anyway.
pbw•2h ago
To capture the individual transistors on a modern CPU, you'd need an image tens of terabytes in size, and it'd have to be captured by an electron microscope, not an optical image. And even that wouldn't let you see all the layers. Some of the very old CPUs, I'm not sure what resolution would be required.
dan_hawkins•2h ago
Absolutely not. It's like opening a hood of your car, taking picture of what you see and then try to build replica of the engine based on that.
intrasight•2h ago
Nice

I have on my desk the book "State of the Art" by Stan Augarten. It shows the progression of transistors and integrated circuits from conception through 1983.

The book was one of the inspirations for me to become an electrical engineer. My older brother loaned me a copy of it when it was published in 1983.

Sweepi•2h ago
see also: https://www.flickr.com/photos/130561288@N04/ (yes, afaik flickr is still their main/only homepage except for Twitter: https://xcancel.com/fritzchensfritz)
hyperbrainer•2h ago
I do not know enough to analyse these chips in any meaninful way, but is there a trend or cool feature to be seen across?
sllabres•2h ago
A nice collection of die shots is on Fritzchens Fritz [1] on flickr

[1] https://www.flickr.com/photos/130561288@N04/albums/721576504...

atannen•1h ago
see also https://wikichip.org/
foz•1h ago
I love these. The https://www.youtube.com/@EvilmonkeyzDesignz channel does some wonderful explorations of chips with high powered microscopes, finding easter eggs and graphics left by designers. So much fun.
mk89•54m ago
How can someone explain this to a kid? Is there somewhere an even more simplified version than Arduino or similar to show how all these things actually work? I know arduino is not a cpu, but overall, how these things work together, would be great to see/show.

I don't expect to show how electrons move :) I mean, some model, a toy or so, that shows how these things work. I remember it only from books/specs, but even there, at a certain point there are "limits" :)

thessalchips•36m ago
I‘m teaching a course on computer architecture at my university and there are these model processors called MUx (MU0-7) that explain how a CPU works from the ground up. I‘m not aware of any toys (my students keep asking me about that as well), but I wrote an interactive visualizer that illustrates the simplest processor and how data moves through it: https://pascalbormann.de/mu-vis/ Not mobile friendly unfortunately and maybe a bit too advanced for kids, but it could be a starting point. The code is here if you want to build on it: https://github.com/Mortano/mu0-visualization
thabit•33m ago
A breadboard CPU would be a good "toy" no?
Quizzical4230•34m ago
There is a famous video from Hitachi[^1] showing the Youngs double slit experiment[^2]. You may like it!

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PanqoHa_B6c

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment

pkaye•30m ago
You can see a simulation of an 6502 CPU running here.

http://www.visual6502.org/JSSim/expert.html

Also this person has some simple tutorial on how a toy CPUs work. He even made a simulator so you can make your own using gate logic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZwneRb-zqA&list=PLFt_AvWsXl...