May 15, 2026 from Hackaday preFlight Slicer Brings Added Part Strength Feature, and Many More Interested in taking some wild new 3D printing features for a test drive? preFlight is free and open source slicer that brings a host of processing improvements as well as …read more
May 15, 2026 from It's FOSS Heavy Community Backlash Blocks Fedora's AI Developer Desktop Initiative Two council members have retracted their approval votes after people raised concerns.
May 15, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Organic Maps brings transit line highlights, cleaner bookmark labels, and more legible map Organic Maps, the open source offline map and turn-by-turn navigation app, has released an update introducing several new features and visual enhancements. Users can now tap on any bus, tram, train...
May 15, 2026 from Hackaday Using a Nintendo Switch to Speed Up a 3D Printer 3D printers are almost never fast enough. [Cocoanix] had a Prusa MK3S with this very problem. He found it to be disappointingly tedious when completing even simple prints, and sought …read more
May 15, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net OpenProject 17.4 brings Jira Migrator with custom fields & backlog updates for agile teams OpenProject 17.4 has been released, bringing key updates for project management teams using this open source software. The Jira Migrator is now available by default, removing its feature flag but r...
May 15, 2026 from It's FOSS Can You Run LLMs Locally Without a GPU? I Tested 8 Models on Linux Want to run AI models locally without expensive hardware? I tested 8 LLMs on a CPU-only machine to find out what works and what doesn’t.
May 15, 2026 from Hackaday An E-Bike Motor From First Principles Many of us have made electric transport of some form, whether a Hacky Racer, and e-bike, a go-kart, or whatever. We have invariably bought a motor, or if we are …read more
May 15, 2026 from Hackaday Mix Your Own ECN-2 Development Chemicals After the digital camera rose to prominence, it became a cool hobby to keep taking photos on film. It was even cooler if you did the same with an old …read more
May 15, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Notion launches Developer Platform for AI agents with Workers and external agent support Notion has introduced a new Developer Platform that expands its AI agent capabilities and positions the workspace as a central hub for collaboration, tools, and integrated data sources. The update ...
May 15, 2026 from Julia Evans Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS Hello! 8 years ago, I wrote excitedly about discovering Tailwind. At that time I really had no idea how to structure my CSS code and given the choice between a pile of complete chaos and Tailwind, ...
May 14, 2026 from Hackaday Controlling a Vibrobot with Only One Motor The vibrobot – a vibrating motor and battery attached to the head of a brush – isn’t truly a robot, since its movement can’t be controlled, but it’s whetted the …read more
May 14, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Instagram launches Instants, a new disappearing photo app to rival Snapchat and BeReal Instagram has launched Instants, a new disappearing photo feature and standalone app to compete directly with Snapchat and other private photo sharing services like BeReal and Locket. It is availab...
May 14, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual Webbloat reduzieren 1,5 Megabyte? Das sind ja fast zwei Megabyte! Sechs Megabyte unkomprimiert! Zwanzig Megabyte im Debug-Build!
May 14, 2026 from Hackaday RS-485 Sprinkler Control: Scaling Irrigation Across the Farm Building your own sprinkler system controller isn’t that difficult on the face of it, but what happens when your system starts to grow, adding more distant areas? To tackle this, …read more
May 14, 2026 from GadgeteerZA Large Study Finds That Replacing Workers With AI Is Backfiring Badly “A new study from Gartner immediately caught our eye. As Fortune reports, the research and advisory firm surveyed 350 global business executives whose companies are pulling in at least $1 billion a...
May 14, 2026 from Hackaday ChargeCap Helps Your Batteries Last Longer By Limiting Charge Level If you want to maximize the life of your lithium-ion batteries, proper storage voltage is critical. That is, don’t store them empty, and don’t store them completely full either. “Almost …read more
May 14, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 14 May 2026 Thursday Edition Top Story This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays. Fragnesia is the fourth local privilege escalation bug to hit Linux in the past two weeks. (Phoronix) Bad ...
May 14, 2026 from GadgeteerZA With KOReader My ancient Kobo eReader is now better than a new Kindle The linked article inspired me to install KOReader on my old Kobo eReader. It was just a question of copying two files to the Kobo’s root directory, and running the install.sh script there. I then ...
May 14, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net WhatsApp brings private Incognito Chat with Meta AI and disappearing messages WhatsApp is introducing Incognito Chat with Meta AI, a new mode for private and temporary conversations with Meta’s AI. The feature is designed for more sensitive interactions, including financial,...
May 14, 2026 from Hackaday Ask Hackaday: Do We Need a 21st Century Calculator? Three resistors in parallel: 4.7 k,Ω 22 kΩ, and 3.3 kΩ. Quick! What’s the equivalent value? You can estimate it, of course, but if you want the actual 1.8 kΩ …read more
