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Ask HN: What's the Hacker News of hardware?
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Re: Ask HN: What's the Hacker News of hardware?
#32I was wondering the same question because I have an EE degree and am annoyed there is no website that spews interesting content for my profession. Maybe Planet Analog or EEVBlog forum? It's very hard to find great tutorials. I would argue that this website covers both hardware/software in the natural proportion of hardware:software developers. If I had to guess then that would be 1:30. Why is it 1:30? Because hardwar…
> It's very hard to find great tutorials. Reminds me of a comment I saw on reddit: "Verilog/SystemVerilog are not languages many people write about online. Reading Synopsis documentation and occasional seminars are the best of what you can get." https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/2m58ci/hardware_e... As someone trying to learn Verilog better, it's frustrating.
JCooley @ Synopsys was great help on Usenet in the early 90s. I don't know what's up about that now.
EDIT: But still ... the tooling is pretty stable. I don't know that I would turn to an HN-like community to help me put a (frankly, pretty vanilla) module on a CPU bus from the Broadcom family. I know how to do that. You can go down the stack (at which point everything is proprietary) or you can go up the stack (at which everything is software). No?
Re: Ask HN: What's the Hacker News of hardware?
#33I would say subscribe to a couple subreddits. The level of discussion is not as to the point as I find HN tends to have (which is a good thing in my opinion), but there are quite a few different ones with varying levels of discussion and acceptance. So I wouldn't expect the HN version of hardware there, but something different.
To start you off, I subscribe to the following:
https://www.reddit.com/r/electronics/
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskElectronics/
https://www.reddit.com/r/ComputerEngineering/
https://www.reddit.com/r/FPGA/
Note that there subreddits related to a specific product where discussion focuses on that specific hardware. They tend to by hobbyist, but that's as close as you can get.
Re: Ask HN: What's the Hacker News of hardware?
#34Good question! We need one! HardOCP used to have some things... And the very first high-end/professional HW benchmarking websites were inspiring.
I think if we could get a couple engineers from each HW manufacturer from different departments to help put together articles, then I think one as entertaining as HN could be built. People just don't hash out HW specs like they used to - and we need a resurgence via an injection of top-skilled onslaught articles written by the actual innovations of today. I'm happy to help coerce them to participate in such an adventure - if some of you will help me :)
Re: Ask HN: What's the Hacker News of hardware?
#35I was wondering the same question because I have an EE degree and am annoyed there is no website that spews interesting content for my profession. Maybe Planet Analog or EEVBlog forum? It's very hard to find great tutorials. I would argue that this website covers both hardware/software in the natural proportion of hardware:software developers. If I had to guess then that would be 1:30. Why is it 1:30? Because hardwar…
I think there's a good answer to the OP's question (assuming the OP means a community for professional hardware engineers or people interested in that level of sophistication.) > hardware developers have way more at stake than their software counterparts This is related, but software is fungible so more of the customization happens there. How many iPhone designs are there vs apps in the app store? I'm a software engi…
Come on over to https://www.reddit.com/r/FPGA/, also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14124219
Re: Ask HN: What's the Hacker News of hardware?
#36This reminds me of https://www.reddit.com/r/Ram/ and the idea of a DRAM subreddit that deals with DRAM like DDR3 and DDR4, hopefully with DRAM experts.
That subs front page has a ton of spam, which was submitted a year ago, so I wouldn't suggest it.
EDIT: On further inspection I think that sub is about the truck 'RAM' and other things.
Re: Ask HN: What's the Hacker News of hardware?
#37sci.electronics.design on Usenet is quite helpful. I've been able to get help there with obscure problems in switching power supply design.
Because all the clueless people have dropped Usenet, it's mostly people who know what they're doing. comp.lang.* groups remain useful.
r/electronics is rather lame. Current top articles:
* Join fellow redditors in delivering happiness to one another around the globe! (AD)
* Interesting7805 at the heart of a Super Famicom (SNES).
* Organization Tip: Old Cassette Cases w/ Labels to Keep Parts Sorted!
* Modded Gopro clone sees through Blu-Ray player
* NJ based Components Distributor with NO minimum order quantity (AD)
Not too helpful.
Electronics people usually get Electronic Design magazine. Mechanical engineering people get Machine Design. (Those are free. New Equipment Digest arrives whether you asked for it or not.)
Re: Ask HN: What's the Hacker News of hardware?
#38This reminds me of https://www.reddit.com/r/Ram/ and the idea of a DRAM subreddit that deals with DRAM like DDR3 and DDR4, hopefully with DRAM experts.
That subs front page has a ton of spam, which was submitted a year ago, so I wouldn't suggest it. EDIT: On further inspection I think that sub is about the truck 'RAM' and other things.
The point is to take over the subreddit. alienth is one of the mods.
Re: Ask HN: What's the Hacker News of hardware?
#39Not exactly like HN, but http://hackaday.com focuses on small hardware projects and news.
The cross-section of articles on HaD are indeed quite good. However, the comments to those articles are often best avoided.
YMMV, I've been regularly impressed with the quality of posts on hackaday. I find there are some very knowledgable posters who will often add great value to a given article. That said I may happen to only be interested in the articles that tend to attract higher quality comments, and miss much of the trolling that happens elsewhere on the site.
Re: Ask HN: What's the Hacker News of hardware?
#40HardForum