Aug 05, 2026 from Hackaday Reading a Thermocouple with Mercury and a Potentiometer If you’ve ever thought about the nomenclature of electrical components, potentiometer stands out as a strange name, etymologically suggesting something like a voltmeter. In fact, the component took...
Aug 05, 2026 from The Universe of Discourse The road to epsilon-zero: Coin-moving games with no coins Previously: Ordinal numbers and basic set theory Ordinals as nim-heaps Nim always ends, even with infinite ordinals Infinite Nim as a coin-moving game In the previous article we saw how to interpre...
Aug 05, 2026 from Hackaday Cell Broadcast: The Modern Emergency Alert System Once upon a time, telephones were primarily point-to-point communications systems. There were options for three-way and conference calls out there, but by and large the plain old telephone system w...
Aug 05, 2026 from It's FOSS This New Open Source Project Wants to Be the AI-First Alternative to Microsoft Office Built by a single engineer using open source components, GenOffice bundles editors like Docs, Sheets, Slides, and PDF.
Aug 05, 2026 from Hackaday Could Camera Hardware Be The Physical Equivalent to USB-C? [Mansour] presents an interesting idea in his essay A Common Thread — just as USB-C has become the “One Connector To Rule Them All” in the world of electronics, so …read more
Aug 05, 2026 from It's FOSS While Torvalds Makes Peace With AI in Linux, Greg Kroah-Hartman Draws a Line (Sort of) His new policy keeps AI patches out of drivers/staging, the tree meant for newcomers to learn kernel development.
Aug 05, 2026 from Kev Quirk New Pets, Sick Pets, and Hemorrhaging Money Wooh! The last few weeks have been absolutely mental here in Casa del Quirk. Around 2 months ago we started renovating the stables to make things better for the goats and chickens. We've had an ext...
Aug 05, 2026 from Remote Synthesis I Totally Misunderstood ATProto I thought I knew what AT Protocol was about. It was for Bluesky and Bluesky-like sites and maybe auth. I wasn't entirely wrong but I was also way off the mark.
Aug 05, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Buzz Desktop v0.5.4: deploy kubernetes agents, better security, new navigation Buzz Desktop v0.5.4 enables early deployment of remote agents directly to Kubernetes from the desktop app. The release also adds important security updates, including to the Nostr stack and improve...
Aug 05, 2026 from Hackaday Train Simulator Controller: July 2026 Progress Roundup For the past three years [Christopher Mitchell] has been working on his replica of a British Rail Class 800 control cab for a physical train simulator, with the July blog …read more
Aug 05, 2026 from Hackaday A Full Motion Video Codec For the Atari ST Who says an old dog can’t do new tricks? The Atari ST has got to qualify as an “old dog” 41 years after launch, and if playing Full Motion Video …read more
Aug 05, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Visual Novel Definition From Academic Paper I collected academic papers about visual novels for at least one ongoing NLJ article project. I figured that the best place to start my reading was “What is a Visual Novel?” This paper, authored by...
Aug 05, 2026 from Hackaday Polystyrene Foam can be Gasoline With Some Help Styrofoam – or closed-cell extruded polystyrene (XPS) foam if you want to be precise – is one of those materials that is both super versatile for packaging and insulation, but …read more
Aug 04, 2026 from Hackaday Tearing Down Aircraft Weather Radar Avionics If you’re flying high in the sky, it’s useful to know if there’s turbulence, heavy rain, or other nasty weather ahead. Onboard weather radar is a useful tool that pilots …read more
Aug 04, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual Der inner-platform effect Wenn das Datenbankschema eine schlechte Kopie des Datenbanksystems ist.
Aug 04, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net WhatsApp adds @all group mentions, poll deadlines, and fast group creation WhatsApp is adding an @all mention to notify every member of a group chat, similar to @here and @everyone on Discord or Slack. In groups with more than 32 members, only admins can use it, while any...
Aug 04, 2026 from Hackaday Strengthening 3D Prints with a Carbon-Fiber Epidermis As strong and light as carbon fiber-epoxy composites are, the same can’t always be said of carbon-fiber reinforced 3D printer filaments. Of those that do improve over stock filament, the …read more
Aug 04, 2026 from Hackaday At Last! CP/M for Protected Mode If you used a serious computer pre-IBM PC, there was a fair chance its operating system was CP/M. CP/M was a staple among 8080 and Z80 computers and while there …read more
Aug 04, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 4 August 2026 Teratornia Edition Top Story Who is legally liable for Anthropic and OpenAI accidentally murdering eleven trillion people? It's complicated. (Tech Crunch) Oops, sorry, that was next week's question...
