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Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep

https://github.com/asciimoo/hister
227•bookofjoe•3h ago•80 comments

Fujitsu launches made-in-Japan next-generation CPU FUJITSU-MONAKA

https://global.fujitsu/en-global/pr/news/2026/09/14-02
421•my123•2d ago•156 comments

Missouri governor orders guardrails on Flock cameras and ALPRs

https://www.stlpr.org/news-briefs/2026-09-16/flock-cameras-guardrails-missouri-kehoe
19•lenerdenator•24m ago•6 comments

CrowdSec Source Code Leak

https://www.crowdsec.net/blog/crowdsec-statement-source-code-exposure
85•eccgecko•4h ago•28 comments

Rate limits on GitLab.com are changing

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/rate-limit-change-2026/
110•darkwater•4h ago•91 comments

Wax Motor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wax_motor
24•mhb•1d ago•1 comments

Infinite-Parameter LLMs: Generating and Adapting Weights from Live Data

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.18842
45•Betelbuddy•2h ago•10 comments

Why I didn’t sign the Fields medallists’ letter

https://gowers.wordpress.com/2026/09/17/why-i-didnt-sign-the-fields-medallists-letter/
146•simianwords•11h ago•193 comments

How GLM built its own inference infrastructure

https://z.ai/blog/glm-built-its-inference-infrastructure
314•whiteros_e•11h ago•233 comments

Running Ubuntu on the Lenovo IdeaPad Duet

https://vhaudiquet.fr/blog/duet-ubuntu/
32•vhaudiquet•2d ago•3 comments

The American Religion of Self-Storage Facilities

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/09/21/the-american-religion-of-self-storage-facilities
118•pseudolus•6h ago•190 comments

Zettascale (YC S24) Is Hiring ASIC/FPGA Engineers to Build Chips for ASI

https://zscc.ai/careers?job_id=109821
1•el_al•2h ago

TSMC revealing details about next gen A14 node

https://iedm26.mapyourshow.com/8_0/sessions/session-details.cfm?scheduleid=331
38•osnium123•2d ago•10 comments

One year of sponsored Servo development

https://servo.org/blog/2026/09/15/one-year-of-sponsorship/
318•AshleysBrain•11h ago•132 comments

Launch HN: Skillsync (YC W26) – AI chat sessions made portable across agents

26•cat-whisperer•3h ago•25 comments

CCC invites all model citizens to 40C3

https://events.ccc.de/en/2026/09/12/40c3-model-citizens/
278•antonly•11h ago•140 comments

Show HN: Share your AI Setup, Learn from others

https://mysetup.ai/
124•steveybrown•6h ago•73 comments

Grand MS-DOS Gaming General MIDI Showdown

https://blog.johnnovak.net/2023/03/05/grand-ms-dos-gaming-general-midi-showdown/
60•ibobev•2d ago•7 comments

LLM Classification Is Feature Engineering

https://minimallysufficient.com/posts/llm-classification-is-feature-extraction/
71•minsufficient•4h ago•12 comments

The Return of Sail Power: Cargo Ships Are Turning Back to the Wind

https://gcaptain.com/the-return-of-sail-power-cargo-ships-are-turning-back-to-the-wind/
150•gumby•19h ago•109 comments

Show HN: Craigslist for agent skills, curated by a human

https://skillbay.sh/
12•skeptrune•2h ago•5 comments

Ask HN: How to recover Google auth after phone stolen?

80•keymasta•3h ago•76 comments

Don't Make Job Referrals Public

https://blog.melashri.net/micro/public-job-referral/
12•elashri•1h ago•8 comments

My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it

https://jakeasmith.com/blog/http-build-url/
303•jakeasmith•1d ago•85 comments

Stallman: Thousands Dead, Millions Deprived of Liberties (2001)

https://news.slashdot.org/story/01/09/17/1758231/stallman-thousands-dead-millions-deprived-of-lib...
104•B1FF_PSUVM•2h ago•38 comments

Vinix – A modern operating system written in V

https://vinix-os.org/
76•hggh•4h ago•46 comments

Economic policy for AGI

https://institute.deepmind.com/essays/economic-policy-for-agi/
40•alphabetatango•2h ago•33 comments

Mastering Layout Engines in Graphviz: Dot vs. Neato vs. Twopi vs. Circo

https://guides.visual-paradigm.com/mastering-graphviz-layout-engines-dot-neato-twopi-circo/
34•vismit2000•2d ago•7 comments

Artificial intelligence now beats some of the best human forecasters

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/09/16/artificial-intelligence-now-beats-som...
98•ddp26•4h ago•82 comments

The Relation Between Mathematics and Physics by Paul Dirac (1939)

https://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/events/strings02/dirac/speach.html
147•rramadass•4d ago•50 comments
Open in hackernews

TSMC revealing details about next gen A14 node

https://iedm26.mapyourshow.com/8_0/sessions/session-details.cfm?scheduleid=331
38•osnium123•2d ago
Abstract at IEDM website below

ABSTRACT

A14 NanoFlexTM Pro platform technology features the world’s smallest SRAM with a cell size <0.017μm2 and highest SRAM macro density to date through dimensional ground rule scaling. Coupled with standard cell innovations, it delivers a full-node PPA improvement over the predecessor N2 technology for a 10~15% speed enhancement, a 25~30% power reduction and a chip density increase by ~20% driven by logic and SRAM scaling. Key features, such as TSV, innovative RDL that enables SoIC bond pitch of 4.5μm and high-performance MiM processes, have also been developed to accelerate the system-level integration and scaling for SoIC products. Supported by robust yield and device progress, A14 technology is on track for volume production in 2028.

Comments

nwah1•2d ago
In simpler terms, the SRAM density improved by 2.9% (according to ChatGPT). Which is better than it sounds, because SRAM had reached a wall, in terms of density gains, and, chips can be dominated by SRAM in terms of surface area, so this can mean a lot more room for logic, even though that is also getting considerably denser.
anamax•1d ago
There's some hope of smaller SRAM in the future - https://raaam-tech.com/technology/ is a three-transistor SRAM.
randomblock1•34m ago
It's not quite SRAM, it needs to be refreshed like DRAM. That's the main downside compared to SRAM but it's still very interesting.
aurareturn•1d ago
Chip density increase is slowing down. Since N10, density scaling has been 60-80%. N3 to N2 is only 20%. And now N2 to A14 is also only 20%.
osnium123•1d ago
Is the increase in wafer cost higher than the density increase? If so, that means that the cost per transistor is also going up.
aurareturn•1d ago
It's hard to tell because AI has pushed up costs. IE. Chip fab margins are increasing.

But generally, I think it's even or increasing $/transistor for each node. I'd guess that A14 would have been 20% more expensive than N2 regardless or AI or not.

It probably is still worth it because you're also getting 20-30% better power efficiency - which is a big deal for data center chips.

georgeburdell•1d ago
A lot of that is the lack of SRAM scaling. There’s still quite a bit of improvements in the back end (metal traces). That aside, if foundries adopted say a 1T-1C SRAM we’d see a pretty rapid density doubling
smallmancontrov•36m ago
Is 1T1C SRAM a technological thing or does it mean "persuade designers to use DRAM in the many cases where the retention contract could be timeboxed with a bit of extra thought and cross-team haggling"?
ginko•35m ago
Come on we're in the 21st century, UTF-8 is pervasive. Just call it "Å14" node.
JumpCrisscross•6m ago
TSMC: https://www.tsmc.com/english/dedicatedFoundry/technology/log...

Not sure what this source is, but it looks sketchy.