Aug 10, 2026 from Hackaday Teardown of an Oxford Nanopore MinION DNA Sequencer For most people the term ‘DNA sequencing’ probably brings to mind large, expensive laboratory equipment in sterile rooms, but over the past decades technological progress really has had its way …re...
Aug 10, 2026 from Hackaday Linux Fu: Heads or Tails for VPN If you’ve done much networking, you surely know the frustration of trying to connect to something, say a Raspberry Pi, that lives behind your consumer router. There are a number …read more
Aug 10, 2026 from ℤ→ℤ Inventing ELIZA (Review) This year is the 60th anniversary of Joseph Weizenbaum’s article “ELIZA—A Computer Program For the Study of Natural Language Communication Between Man and Machine”. ELIZA was a natural language “en...
Aug 10, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-10-26 Pook-Emu Bee links are back today as we start the new work-week. 1 – Persona 30th Anniversary Paper Fragrances Feature Designs Announced (Orpheus Joshua for Noisy Pixel. August 9, 2026.) I have bee...
Aug 10, 2026 from Hackaday Functional Jumping Pokéball from an Ancient Pokémon World When playing a game about Pocket Monsters, there’s one thing you can’t avoid using no matter what you do, and that’s a pokeball. Whether it’s a new or old game, …read more
Aug 10, 2026 from It's FOSS CachyOS is Laying Groundwork for The Server Edition The CLI installer's new experimental profiles target the upcoming Server Edition, while Shelly gets a full rewrite.
Aug 10, 2026 from Hackaday The Physics of Keeping Thermal Power Stations Cool Recently thermal power stations have been in the news quite a bit, mostly in the context of them being throttled back or shut down due to the river water used …read more
Aug 10, 2026 from Fatbobman's Blog Apple Intelligence Has Passed Chinese Government Review and Is Coming to China - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #148 In July, Apple Intelligence appeared on the latest list of generative AI services registered with China’s Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC). Then, just two days ago, Apple confirmed that Ali...
Aug 10, 2026 from It's FOSS openJiuwen’s Agent Swarm: When AI Agents Finally Work as a Team openJiuwen is an open-source AI agent platform to help developers build production-grade AI agents and enable large-scale multi-agent collaboration.
Aug 10, 2026 from Hackaday Triggering Lightning with a Rocket Lightning, despite being a common and readily-detected phenomenon, is nevertheless difficult to study. One reason is the difficulty of predicting when and where lightning will strike; tall structur...
Aug 10, 2026 from It's FOSS AI Can No Longer Rampage Through Rust's Code Repo The new rust-lang/rust policy allows AI-written code only under a narrow, disclosed experiment, and doesn't apply to the wider Rust project.
Aug 10, 2026 from Jordi Villar 2026W31 Elevators — The counterintuitive result is that destination dispatch, the kiosk where you punch your floor before boarding, performs worse than plain up/down buttons. Locking in the assignment earl...
Aug 10, 2026 from Hackaday Even on the Red Planet, Hexagons are the Bestagons Though their pure Platonic Forms may only exist in the world of ideas, certain regular shapes can’t help but keep falling out of natural processes– case in point, the six-sided …read more
Aug 10, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Wine 11.15 adds NTLM support, ARM64EC build and fixes 41 bugs Wine 11.15 introduces support for local NTLM authentication, expanding compatibility with Windows environments. The release also adds support for ARM64EC builds in Mingw mode and new KDF algorithms...
Aug 10, 2026 from Home on A blog Thumb First, Screen Second: Designing a Music Review Site I built music.vfiles.no as a place to publish music reviews, artist pages, and yearly top lists. It’s a Gatsby and React site under the hood, but this post isn’t really about the stack. It’s about ...
Aug 10, 2026 from Hackaday Creating a Supersonic Trebuchet As awesome as trebuchets are, the fact that medieval engineers didn’t create versions capable of launching supersonic projectiles is a bit of a bummer. Fortunately it’s possible to correct this …re...
Aug 10, 2026 from Hackaday Retrotechtacular: A View of the Moon from 1964 If you didn’t live through it, it is hard to understand how excited the general public was about the race for the moon. You can capture some of it by …read more
Aug 10, 2026 from Ploum.net L’arnaque du bilan carbone L’arnaque du bilan carbone Pourquoi nous nous sommes fait avoir dans notre soi-disant lutte contre le réchauffement climatique Ne plus prendre l’avion, acheter des électroménagers de moindre consom...
Aug 10, 2026 from Heitor's log TIL: Unminimizing Ubuntu Docker images How to restore man pages and other stripped content in minimized Ubuntu Docker images.
Aug 09, 2026 from Hackaday Hackaday Links: August 9, 2026 Bad news for anyone who was hoping for some relief from the memory shortage — Digitimes is reporting that the production capacity of major players such as Samsung, Micron, and …read more
