Hacker News: Bluebirt

New comment by Bluebirt in "Aegis – open-source FPGA silicon"

Bluebirt — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:30:20 +0000

Neat project - there are already a couple of good open FPGA projects. Have a look at Dirk Koch's and the FABolous teams work. They are doing exceptional work.

But all open FPGA projects miss the IO required for a good design. They do not have any serdes hardware nor DDR IO cells.

New comment by Bluebirt in "US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025, Fitch says"

Bluebirt — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 08:13:07 +0000

Whenever a Bank is sued, you can be certain a guy from Deutsche is somehow involved.

New comment by Bluebirt in "Show HN: Perlin Noise Terminal Animation in Rust (60 FPS, Truecolor)"

Bluebirt — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 13:59:43 +0000

Please put up some screenshot or video. I would be very interested in this project since I need a lot of example video content for LED applications.

New comment by Bluebirt in "A Message from Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger to Employees"

Bluebirt — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 06:10:45 +0000

Okay, this means reducing Innovation to a bare minimum I guess. It is baffling to me, how this giant company manages to suck at everything they touch. They managed to be unrelevant in every trend over the past decade.

New comment by Bluebirt in "EGAIR – European Guild for Artificial Intelligence Regulation"

Bluebirt — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 10:35:00 +0000

This collective of stooges of the European content industry seems to be somewhat irrelevant. Never even heard of one of their "prominent" supporters. This seems like one of the thousand attempts to protect the very mediocre European domestic content industry. As a German, I have seen so many of such initiatives, often even funded by universities or state near bodies.

New comment by Bluebirt in "Ultra Librarian joins Flux to take the hard out of hardware"

Bluebirt — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 21:57:45 +0000

WOW. These two projects must be the most esoteric hardware projects out there. Why should anyone use code for hardware? This flux thing seems only to be useful for simple hobby projects.

New comment by Bluebirt in "802.11ah Wi-Fi HaLOW: The 1 Kilometer WiFi Standard"

Bluebirt — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 03:01:32 +0000

It is a bummer that 802.11ah did not took of. This technology has a lot of potential and the implementation is pretty easy, also for ultra low power applicatons. But for some reason, no one is using this technology.

New comment by Bluebirt in "Power over fiber"

Bluebirt — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 20:19:44 +0000

Sadly, the bandwidth of the devices is not given anywhere. Would be really interesting for certain applications. This is very helpful in medic applications like MRI.

New comment by Bluebirt in "Intel plans spinoff of FPGA unit"

Bluebirt — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 21:30:45 +0000

Consumer application and FPGAs are an oxymoron in itself. FPGAs are used in applications requiring special interfaces, special computing units or other custom requirements. If there is enough demand, SoCs are developed for these applications, but this is only useful in mid to high volume production. Areas like the ones you gave and many more are making heavy use of FPGAs. I work in medical for example. We are using custom designed chips for special detection purposes. But when it comes to data processing and interfacing with computers, we use FPGAs.