Sep 12, 2026 from It's FOSS This Tiny Fingerprint Key Unlocks Linux, Approves SSH and AI Agents Immurok is a wireless fingerprint reader that wants to guard your sudo, your SSH logins, your TOTP codes, and even your AI coding agent. Here is how it held up on Linux over a week of daily use.
Sep 12, 2026 from Hackaday The Heavy Disco-Ball Satellite Designed to Do… Nothing Launched in 1976, LAGEOS-1 (LAser GEOdynamic Satellite) is unusual in that it contains no instrumentation, no electronics, no power supply, and no means of propulsion. It’s spherical, weighs just u...
Sep 12, 2026 from Thejesh GN Why Garmin Forerunner 965? I have been looking for a full-fledged smartwatch for a while now. I have a Pebble and a BangleJS; I use them all the time. But they are semi-smartwatches. I wanted a full-fledged watch that lasts ...
Sep 12, 2026 from Hackaday Looking at a TRS-80 12 MB External Hard Drive from 1983 Although hard disks weren’t a common feature yet in many home computers in the 1980s, they were becoming increasingly more affordable. For relative meanings of the word ‘affordable’, naturally. Thi...
Sep 12, 2026 from Hackaday All The Best Computers Boot To… Python? Among all the machines of the 8-bit home computer era which booted straight to a BASIC prompt, there were a very few that went their own way with another language. …read more
Sep 12, 2026 from Hackaday How To Fold Curved Lines in Metal Without Fancy Tools Folding a sheet of metal in a straight line is one thing, but how does one fold multiple curved lines into a sheet of aluminum without fancy machines? [John] demonstrates …read more
Sep 12, 2026 from Tim Hårek Kaizen #5: Backups (and a lot more)! After Kaizen #4, I knew I had to act quickly to force myself to set up the actual backups, and do it properly. And this post came a lot later than originally planned, so a lot of stuff has happened...
Sep 11, 2026 from Hackaday Trying to Fix a Suspiciously Cheap Enterprise-Grade Network Switch When you see a listing for an Ethernet switch whose specification list is in effect ‘yes’, with a four-digit price tag when new, and with the seller asking for less …read more
Sep 11, 2026 from Bobby Hiltz Credit Feed: Super XYX A quick review of the shoot-'em-up game Super XYX on the Nintendo Switch. A great game for shmup fans, and everyone else too.
Sep 11, 2026 from Hackaday Making a Neo Nuvistor Project in 2026 For a little while vacuum tubes and semiconductors were fighting a heated battle for dominance, with bipolar junction transistors and 1959’s RCA Nuvistor both allowing you to build a compact …read ...
Sep 11, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual Antiquiertes HTML Ich habe einen Blogpost gefunden, in dem HTML-Gebilde zu sehen sind, die man heute nicht mehr so sieht, bzw. die nicht mehr gültig sind.
Sep 11, 2026 from Hackaday Hand-Coded ASM Powers Homebrew SNES Game Nintendo has made many game consoles in its long history — one that famously overlaps that of the Ottoman Empire — but only one of them was ever Super. It’s …read more
Sep 11, 2026 from Thejesh GN Weekly Notes 37/2026 It’s been a hectic week. I had quite a bit of work both at work and at home. I’m still lagging on my home TODO list. Monday is a holiday, so I should be able to cover it.
Sep 11, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 11 September 2026 Sunken Scat Cat Edition Top Story Twenty-five years. I was only four at the time, like the rest of us, but I remember the day. The Exploration Company has raised $450 million in series C funding in...
Sep 11, 2026 from Hackaday Hackaday Podcast Episode 386: Doomscroll Tamagotchis, Clavichords, and Vibrotrucks In this specially-numbered podcast episode that lines up quite nicely with our Retrocomputing Challenge, Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met over surprisingly low latency and loud beverages to b...
Sep 11, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Move passwords and passkeys between Android managers safely Android now lets users transfer passwords and passkeys directly between supported password managers, without downloading an unencrypted file. A new Android-managed flow detects eligible password ma...
Sep 11, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Gemini app arrives on Windows with Alt + Space shortcut Google has launched the Gemini app globally for Windows 10 and 11, bringing Gemini to a dedicated desktop app. Users can press Alt + Space to open it over their active work, while the app also supp...
Sep 11, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Cursor Projects puts long-running coding tasks on autopilot Cursor has launched Projects in beta, a workspace for longer-running coding work that uses a coordinator agent to plan tasks and delegate implementation to parallel subagents. Projects run on cloud...
Sep 11, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Penpot 2.18 brings Enterprise and stroke-to-path tools Penpot 2.18 adds stroke-to-path for users of the new WebGL renderer, plus shape and free-draw tool flyouts in the toolbar. Moreover, font names in the selector now appear in their own typefaces. Th...
Sep 11, 2026 from Hackaday This Machine Makes 35mm (Almost) Film The revival in film photography has brought a range of specialist films to tempt the experimenter, as well as increased the popularity of loading your own cartridges. But perforating the …read more
