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ESP32-P4 Powers Video Alarm Clock

Once upon a time, you had the option of waking up to a bell, a harsh buzzer, or whatever happened to be on the radio that morning. Now that it’s …read more

Math Is Your Friend, Part 22

Read Math Is Your Friend, Part 22 Customer: "Aren't those apples $2.49 a pound? Why are you charging me more than that?" Me: *Motions to the screen.* "They're $2.49 a pound, and you bought 2.4 poun...

Trump Loses Two More Sanctuary City Cases - And Picks up A Rare Win

The unusual victory arises from a connection to the Contracts Clause.

2026-09-07 20:39: Do you know what the hardest thing to do on earth is? Quantum physics? No....

Do you know what the hardest thing to do on earth is? Quantum physics? No. Solving world hunger? Nope. Getting Trump impeached? Nah. It's climbing the stairs on leg day! 🦵🏼 Thanks for reading this ...

Daily News Stuff 7 September 2026

Fantasy Dimension Edition Top Story Your Roku TV now offers AI slop for free! (Engadget) Never mind the quality, feel the width! Your LG TV is spying on you. (Notebook Check) For once this is not e...

Tokyo’s red-light district cafe lets you dine inside a real 1960s cabaret

Used as a Netflix crime drama set, this safe, solo-female-friendly venue offers up black omurice and colorful retro sodas. Kabukicho, in Tokyo, is Japan’s most recognizable red-light district, pack...

A Clanker Pitted Fedora Against Windows 11. Fedora Won, Mostly

PhoneBuff's automated test found Windows 11 ahead only at launching Cyberpunk 2077.

Guitar Chops 01

A couple of months ago, I got lost in Starfield. I didn’t do much else, and I hardly played my guitar. It’s only been a kind of “secondary hobby” since about 2015, so that’s hardly surprising, and ...

A Judge Who Worked 150 Years After the Great Pyramid Just Had His Tomb Opened — and the Paint Is Still Wet-Looking

When the French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette surveyed the necropolis at Saqqara in the mid-19th century, he catalogued hundreds of mastaba tombs and marked one more on his map that he never got ar...

When the Mac mini’s Price Is No Longer Mini - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #152

Late last month, Apple released the new Mac mini and Mac Studio. Alongside the impressive performance upgrades, the noticeably higher prices were just as striking. Rising memory and storage costs a...

Looking for iPad Reader App Recommendations

I was originally going to post this on r/ipad, but when I tried to submit my post I got a warning that I might be violating this rule: Any request for purchase related advice/questions, product com...

NetBSD 9.5 has been released as the final version of this aging stable branch

The NetBSD Project has announced the release of NetBSD 9.5, the fifth and final installment from the NetBSD 9 stable branch. Unveiled on August 31, 2026, the update bundles a curated set of securit...

The Plague of Justinian

Long, long ago I made a brief mention of the Plague of Justinian, and I've mad many posts dealing with the Bubonic Plague, the Black Death, Yersinia pestis. Researchers looking at ancient DNA from ...

2026W35

You should never be angry at work — The line that got me was “you are not Linus Torvalds or Bryan Cantrill”, because the famous angry engineers can afford anger only since they already control the ...

Postgres in Prod, H2 zum Testen

Eine unterschiedliches Datenbanksystem für integration tests und für das Produktivsystem? Kann ich nicht empfehlen.

Shuffle-shard everything

I’ve administered a lot of system design interviews over my career, and I’ve never had anyone use shuffle-sharding.I think this is a real shame, because shuffle-sharding is one of the vanishingly f...

Semaphore

Hackaday Links: September 6, 2026

Yesterday, Isar Aerospace secured its place in the history books when the upper stage of their Spectrum rocket put a payload of CubeSats into low Earth orbit (LEO). Not only …read more

Refunder Blunder, Part 83

Read Refunder Blunder, Part 83 Me: "Can I see the receipt?" Customer: "I lost it, but you sell this!" Me: "Yes, we do, but it isn't exclusive to our store. Without a receipt, I have no evidence of ...

Weekly Robotics #375

Today in Weekly Robotics: A modular skid-steer UGV you can build yourself, a winning SLAM implementation, balancing a pole with propellers, GPT-6 for robotic manipulation, and more!