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Re: Ask HN: What's the Hacker News of hardware?

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Post by Animats »

Check out "bbs.elecfans.com". 4 million posts in "Engineer Workplace".

Articles include the problems of being obsolete at age 30, and a comment that Huawei is "cleaning up" the staff over 34. There's an online course on how to become an embedded systems developer by writing your own RTOS, and what questions Huawei asks in interviews. Somebody wants help with their square wave generator, which is producing a poor waveform. Somebody else wants to know how to drive a 12V brushless DC motor 300mA 2000 RPM. Nobody posted a useful answer, which is disappointing.

All in Mandarin, of course, but that's what Google Translate is for.

Re: Ask HN: What's the Hacker News of hardware?

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Post by nickpsecurity »

_av8l wrote: post #17

https://lobste.rs/ is similar to HN, but has tags, so you can limit your scope to hardware: https://lobste.rs/t/hardware

It's true but we have barely any hardware news over there either. There's some cool projects in embedded, emulators, etc you might see on occasion. You're not going to learn hardware for the most part. There's also very few commenters in general much less for hardware.

So, it's a nice, high-signal, tech-focused site that a subset of HN readers will enjoy. It's not the site to get hardware advise or HDL from.

Re: Ask HN: What's the Hacker News of hardware?

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Post by HeavenBanned »

Animats wrote: post #41

Check out "bbs.elecfans.com". 4 million posts in "Engineer Workplace". Articles include the problems of being obsolete at age 30, and a comment that Huawei is "cleaning up" the staff over 34. There's an online course on how to become an embedded systems developer by writing your own RTOS, and what questions Huawei asks in interviews. Somebody wants help with their square wave generator, which is producing a poor wave…

Mandarin is a beautiful language. I've been learning it in my car as I drive to school every morning. So far I can say some simple phrases thanks to Pimsleur, but all in all, it's no different than any other language. Problem is, I'll never be able to read/write it. Only spoken word.

Wo khway shwa e deear po tung wha!

Re: Ask HN: What's the Hacker News of hardware?

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Post by uiri »

SAI_Peregrinus wrote: post #20

I feel like the IEEE should have a forum on their site. Currently the closest thing outside of Spectrum and their various journals is probably their Facebook page, which is just a Facebook page.

IEEE Collabratec is a weird social networking thing that they have. I think it is trying a little bit too hard to be LinkedIn except LinkedIn is already LinkedIn.

vTools Events is really great but it is obviously intended for organizing face-to-face meetings, workshops, etc.

I do agree that IEEE should just host a phpBB forum (or similar) on their site. Perhaps have a subforum for each Society and Affinity Group and also subfora for various Regions/Sections.

Re: Ask HN: What's the Hacker News of hardware?

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Post by cottonseed »

ktta wrote: post #35
cottonseed wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Done! https://www.reddit.com/r/FPGA/comments/65q0ny/cynth_a_simple...

Re: Ask HN: What's the Hacker News of hardware?

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Post by PhantomGremlin »

ci5er wrote: post #32
cottonseed wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 wh…

John Cooley is still active. http://deepchip.com/about.html

From that link:

DeepChip.com is a 20 year old clearinghouse where semiconductor chip designers contribute data-intensive papers and articles of first-hand evaluations and production benchmarks of commercial EDA tools.

John Cooley at or (508) 429-4357 edits the content of both ESNUG and DeepChip.

Re: Ask HN: What's the Hacker News of hardware?

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Post by ci5er »

PhantomGremlin wrote: post #48
ci5er wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 wh…

John Cooley is still active. http://deepchip.com/about.html From that link: DeepChip.com is a 20 year old clearinghouse where semiconductor chip designers contribute data-intensive papers and articles of first-hand evaluations and production benchmarks of commercial EDA tools. John Cooley at or (508) 429-4357 edits the content of both ESNUG and DeepChip.

Sweet! It's good to hear. He was always so super-helpful both on Usenet and directly when I was at Moto Semi way-back about 20-or-25-or-so years ago. Of course, Moto is gone, and I've moved on, but it's good to hear a knowledgeable war-horse is still still around to guide, mentor, inform and design.

Knowing that warms my heart. Thank you.

Re: Ask HN: What's the Hacker News of hardware?

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Post by chillingeffect »

ktta wrote: post #33

I 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/ http…

https://www.reddit.com/r/stm32f4
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