Aug 04, 2026 from Hackaday Yellow YAG Produces Powerful Pulses in Les’ Leftover Laser [Les] likes lasing lasers, and who doesn’t? [Les] likes larger lasers than lots of folks, with his current project being an Nd:YAG (that’s Neodymium:Yttrium Aluminum Garnet) flash pumped laser inte...
Aug 04, 2026 from Hackaday A Versatile PDP-11/70 Emulator The PDP-11 was a 16-bit minicomputer that was very influential in its time. That’s what inspired [vanheusden] to start working on an emulator for the machine in 2018, which has …read more
Aug 04, 2026 from Hackaday Sketching Temporary Circuits with a Light-Triggered Floquet Topological Insulator In semiconductor technology, a base material like silicon is permanently modified to induce certain electrical behavior. In comparison a topological insulator material could be used to create tempo...
Aug 04, 2026 from William Lyon's Blog Google's Open Knowledge Format Meets Neo4j Google's Open Knowledge Format (OKF) is already a graph - it's just serialized as markdown files. Here's how to materialize OKF bundles in Neo4j and build GraphRAG that never serves deprecated know...
Aug 03, 2026 from Hackaday Energizing a Vacuum Tube Flip-Flop Module of the IBM 604 Taking a break from ogling microscopic features in Intel’s semiconductor processors, [Ken Shirriff] is back to instead poking at decidedly macroscopic pluggable modules from the 1948 IBM 604 Electr...
Aug 03, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual Lichtschachtbäume: Sommeredition Die Bäume im Lichtschacht, über die ich im März schon geschrieben habe, leben noch.
Aug 03, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Google Health finally adds two-way Apple Health sync for importing & exporting health data Google Health has released version 5.05 with two ways Apple Health syncing on iPhone, allowing the app to both import HealthKit data and export Google Health and Fitbit Air data to Apple Health. Pr...
Aug 03, 2026 from GadgeteerZA Spam callers face penalties of up to R1,000,000 in South Africa So a few amendments made, but what I really am happy to finally see, is the loophole closed around marketers opting in or not: “Any direct marketer who is not registered on the opt-out registry is ...
Aug 03, 2026 from Hackaday Circuit Bending, But Make It MIDI Circuit bending is a chaotic art. At its simplest, it can just involve making connections between random points on a circuit board to create weird sounds in musical hardware. Or, …read more
Aug 03, 2026 from Hackaday Child-Friendly Music Player Uses RFID [David] has a young child who is clever enough to use a computer to play music, but he doesn’t quite want to hand over the mouse just yet. Thus, he …read more
Aug 03, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 3 August 2026 Why Did It Have To Be Elves Edition Top Story The Xbox may keep disc support as Sony shoots itself and its customers in the feet. (WCCFTech) This would be an intelligent and obvious move meaning th...
Aug 03, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Russia charges Telegram CEO Pavel Durov with terrorism, issues global warrant Russia has charged Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov with facilitating terrorism and placed him on an international wanted list. If convicted, he could face life imprisonment under Russian law. ...
Aug 03, 2026 from Hackaday Congratulations to the Frikkin Laser Winners! Apparently you all love lasers just as much as we do. We put out a challenge to use, build, or otherwise abuse our favorite coherent light sources, and you responded. …read more
Aug 03, 2026 from Peter's Path Monthly update #0435 • July 2026 Posts The following posts were written last month. Books 2000 Years of Christ's Power Volume 2 by Nick Needham Can I Trust The Bible? by R.C. Sproul 2000 Years of Christ's Power Volume 3 by Nick Ne...
Aug 03, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Alibaba launches Qwen3.8-Max with 2.4T parameters and 1M-token context window Alibaba has launched Qwen3.8-Max, its largest AI model to date, through QwenCloud. The mixture of experts model has 2.4 trillion total parameters but activates 95 billion per request to reduce infe...
Aug 03, 2026 from Hackaday New File Manager is C64’s Answer to Norton Commander Norton was always a PC company — Norton Commander, the file manager that launched a thousand clones, was only ever available for DOS, like the rest of the company’s offerings …read more
Aug 03, 2026 from Hackaday The 16K Display that Ate Las Vegas You may have a 4K television. Perhaps you have even bought an 8K screen, despite the shortage of things worth watching in 8K. A 16K display is, today, a rarity. …read more
Aug 03, 2026 from Fatbobman's Blog Hot Tea or Iced Coffee - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #147 Recently, the temperatures in my city have been breaking historical records. Since the end of July, we've been stuck in a stretch of scorching weather lasting more than ten days, with temperatures ...
Aug 03, 2026 from It's FOSS AI Slop Keeps Flooding GNOME Extensions, So They Wrote a Manual for Bots Instead The same low-quality AI patterns kept showing up in submissions even after GNOME updated its review guidelines in December.
Aug 03, 2026 from Hackaday Get a Remote Terminal With One Binary, One URL, and Zero Config Launch a single static binary executable, send someone a QR code or URL (or failing that, text a numerical code or shout it across a room), and they’ll get an …read more
