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New comment by Hello9999901 in "How Taalas “prints” LLM onto a chip?"

Hello9999901 — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 06:18:36 +0000

This would be a very interesting future. I can imagine Gemma 5 Mini running locally on hardware, or a hard-coded "AI core" like an ALU or media processor that supports particular encoding mechanisms like H.264, AV1, etc.

Other than the obvious costs (but Taalas seems to be bringing back the structured ASIC era so costs shouldn't be that low [1]), I'm curious why this isn't getting much attention from larger companies. Of course, this wouldn't be useful for training models but as the models further improve, I can totally see this inside fully local + ultrafast + ultra efficient processors.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structured_ASIC_platform

New comment by Hello9999901 in "The Most Popular Blogs of Hacker News in 2025"

Hello9999901 — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 21:36:45 +0000

Thank you for the mention! Didn't expect to see myself here haha - Byran

New comment by Hello9999901 in "How bad can a $2.97 ADC be?"

Hello9999901 — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 17:48:58 +0000

The price difference could be explained by LCSC purchasing in bulk directly from TI or similar and selling them at lower margins because their volumes are larger. I've seen "clone" chips sold at LCSC, but they're listed under a different brand (I can't recall one off memory unfortunately).

New comment by Hello9999901 in "Interviewing PCB Factory Workers"

Hello9999901 — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 17:57:49 +0000

Hey HN, this past summer I went to NextPCB's factory and toured the facility. I asked questions from a variety of creators to factory workers at random.

Interviewing PCB Factory Workers

Hello9999901 — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 17:57:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElV2KeiGszk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45252880

Points: 10

# Comments: 4

New comment by Hello9999901 in "Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch"

Hello9999901 — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 12:19:46 +0000

Thank you so so much!! I’m shocked and incredibly grateful. HN <3

New comment by Hello9999901 in "Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch"

Hello9999901 — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 02:28:31 +0000

Yup, all the software except the blobs for the SoC, display FW, and trackpad FW (since it's COTS) are open source! If I wanted to have those open-source, the entire machine would take a huge performance hit. I think of striking a balance.

The entire linux install is OSS, the keyboard is in ZMK, and the EC firmware is written in Arduino.

New comment by Hello9999901 in "Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch"

Hello9999901 — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 16:50:31 +0000

I've met amazing people throughout my journey thus far, but no. I have no background in engineering, but my parents have always been supportive. I started falling in love with it in 9th grade with keyboards + ZMK!

New comment by Hello9999901 in "Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch"

Hello9999901 — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 16:43:49 +0000

Thank you redbell! It truly means a lot. I'm incredibly grateful of the reception and the support from everyone. HN <3

New comment by Hello9999901 in "Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch"

Hello9999901 — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 04:46:02 +0000

I have the R&D BOM in a link below [1]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17arbJvPqW6koqEJwAzne...

Thanks.

New comment by Hello9999901 in "Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch"

Hello9999901 — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 04:32:22 +0000

Thank you!

New comment by Hello9999901 in "Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch"

Hello9999901 — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 04:17:10 +0000

Woah! That would be amazing! I sent you an email just now. Thank you so much for this opportunity!!

New comment by Hello9999901 in "Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch"

Hello9999901 — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 04:07:35 +0000

Thank you so much for your kind words!

New comment by Hello9999901 in "Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch"

Hello9999901 — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 04:07:00 +0000

Hey Nirav, super super honored that you saw this! I've always looked up to you guys for inspiration and guidance. Thank you for the offer! Although I probably won't be mass-producing open-source laptops like you (i have a framework 16!), I would love to meet you. Would that be possible?

New comment by Hello9999901 in "Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch"

Hello9999901 — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 03:48:47 +0000

Oh my god! Jeff — huge fan and subscriber!! Thank you for your words of encouragement :). Your videos have been a huge source of inspiration for me.

New comment by Hello9999901 in "Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch"

Hello9999901 — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 03:46:34 +0000

Thank you so much for the heartfelt advice! I'll keep that close to heart :)

New comment by Hello9999901 in "Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch"

Hello9999901 — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 03:45:50 +0000

Thank you! Yup, Raspberry Pi's great an all, but the RK3588's performance is king (and RPi would've also saved me many nights of head-banging at the software).

New comment by Hello9999901 in "Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch"

Hello9999901 — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 03:44:55 +0000

I played Minecraft (epic gaming) with friends for a few hours, no problem! The massive heat capacity of the copper + heatpipe + active fan is good enough.

New comment by Hello9999901 in "Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch"

Hello9999901 — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 03:44:19 +0000

Thank you!

New comment by Hello9999901 in "Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch"

Hello9999901 — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 03:44:13 +0000

Haha I wish, but no. Just surname coincidence.