HARDWARE

NVIDIA's RTX Spark laptops ship October 16 with up to 128 GB of unified memory. What the specs say, the 600 GB/s number that is not memory bandwidth, and which local coding models fit.

Flipper Devices announces their firmware hit 1.0 stability and outlines a new community contribution model - while HN debates whether 'done' software is actually a good thing.

A detailed breakdown of jamesob's viral local LLM guide covering the $2k and $40k hardware paths, critical BIOS settings, and why most setups fail at PCIe negotiation and IOMMU.

LPU-powered inference delivering 500-1,000+ tokens/sec. Purpose-built chip with on-chip SRAM instead of HBM. 5-10x faster than GPU providers. Free tier available.

Wafer-scale AI inference at 3,000+ tokens/sec. The WSE-3 chip has 4 trillion transistors and 900K AI cores. 20x faster than GPU providers. OpenAI partnership for inference.