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Oct 04, 2026 from Hackaday

Hackaday Links: October 3, 2026

If you’re interested in aerospace, there’s an excellent chance you’ve heard the rumor that NASA is trying to get its SR-71 flying again. Or at the very least, they are …read more

Oct 04, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

Donut Let The Door Hit You On The Way Out

Read Donut Let The Door Hit You On The Way Out Customer: "So, you're not gonna sell those last few donuts." Me: "We close in five minutes, so not looking likely." Customer: "So, I can have them?" M...

Oct 04, 2026 from Weekly Robotics Newsletter | Go, Robots!

Weekly Robotics #379

Weekly Robotics 379: Atlas has new hands, lessons learned from building 30,000 robot dogs, how to build a plane in 30 days, evaluating LiDAR performance, Figure robots going out in flames, and more!

Oct 04, 2026 from Above the Law

Missouri’s Terrible Week — See Generally

Three Time Losers: The Supreme Court shut down the third attempt to impose Missouri's gerrymandered map for this election in direct violation of applicable law. Along the way, the Court directed si...

Oct 04, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Libertarianism and Democracy

Matt Zwolinski is right to emphasize that democracy is generally superior to authoritarianism, but wrong to suggest it should be a central libertarian commitment. Moreover, recent events highlight ...

Oct 04, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 4 October 2026

Fake Parrot Sketch Edition Top Story East during the spring and west during the fall: You know you're in for a ride when you read an article that includes the sentence Most magnets have two poles: ...

Oct 04, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Japanese food hack says to soak your grapes in carbonated water, but is the fizz worth the buzz?

We try a Shine Muscat experiment that method claim lets Japan’s most delicious grapes shine in a different way. Shine Muscats don’t really need to be any tastier than they already are. The extra-sw...

Oct 04, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Re-Filling My Gingerbread Man Soap Dispenser 3

I documented my then-new Gingerbread Man Soap Dispenser on The New Leaf Journal last December. I then documented my second refill of Mr. Gingerbread Man back in July. Today, it was time for re-fill...

Oct 04, 2026 from Kev Quirk

Would You Like to Write to Me?

I really enjoy writing. Not typing - writing. With a fountain pen on good quality paper. I find the whole process cathartic; putting pen to paper demands far more use of my grey matter than hammeri...

Oct 04, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Trajan Died in a Small Cilician Port in AD 117 — Archaeologists Are Now Mapping What’s Left

In August AD 117, a ship carrying the Roman emperor put in at the coast of Cilicia, in what is now southern Turkey. Its most important passenger was too ill to travel any farther. Trajan had ruled ...

Oct 04, 2026 from Adventures in Open Source Software

2026 Postgres Summit US - New York City

While my role at Percona is focused on MariaDB, I still have a soft spot for PostgreSQL, so when a spot became available for Postgres Summit US I jumped at the opportunity to attend. TL;DR; Postgre...

Oct 04, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Mazdak and Kavad

During the reign of the Sassanian dynasty's Emperor Kavad I (r. 488–531), Zoroastrianism was the dominant religion. An Iranian priest named Mazdak started preaching a different version that came to...

Oct 04, 2026 from It's FOSS

ORICO X50 Review: A Sleek Thunderbolt 5 SSD Enclosure

A slim, silver NVMe enclosure that turns your spare SSD into fast external storage. Excellent if you have Thunderbolt 5 on your machine.

Oct 04, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual

Pure CSS font-switch

Wie man nur mit HTML und CSS, ohne Javascript in einer statischen HTML-Datei einen Schalter baut, der die Schriftart wechselt.

Oct 04, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal

The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten S2 – Anime Review

After reviewing the first TV anime season of The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten back in 2023, it is only natural that I also review the second season, which aired in spring season 2026.

Oct 04, 2026 from Roy Tang

Weeknotes 2026-10-04

It is October! Somehow the year is already more than 75% over. The World Public transportation in Metro Manila had a fare increase last Monday. I'd complain, but honestly the drivers already earn s...

Oct 04, 2026 from Refereeing and Reflection

Secret Passages: The First Three

Secret Passages, spearheaded by James Hoare, is a magazine that bills itself as “A celebration of classic tabletop gaming”. It defines its scope fairly broadly – in fact, it’s had at least one arti...

Oct 03, 2026 from Hackaday

A Good DIY Solder Stencil Begins With a Cleanly-Sliced Soda Can

Solder stencils are a fantastic way to accurately apply solder paste to a PCB. Professionally-made stencils are cut from steel, but for the home hacker, soda cans continue to be …read more

Oct 03, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

In Crust We Trust

Read In Crust We Trust Customer: "Can we refund our pizza, or exchange it?" Me: "What was wrong with it?" Customer: "It's cold." Me: "Okay, bring it up, and we'll get things sorted." He goes to get...

Oct 03, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Issue 300 of The Newsletter Leaf Journal

I mailed the 300th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal earlier this afternoon. I launched the newsletter back in July 2020 as a companion to The New Leaf Journal. While it still serves the purpo...