May 31, 2026 from Hackaday 4-bit Relay Logic Counter Begs To Have Its Buttons Pushed What’s one to do with some nice little relays of questionable pinout, and prototyping board? How about a quietly clicky 4-bit counter using relay logic with tons of buttons? [Agatha …read more
May 31, 2026 from Peter's Path Suicidal Empathy by Gad Saad Why read the book? Gad Saad wrote Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind. He is an evolutionary psychologist who studies how bad ideas spread. In this book he explains how empathy, a useful human trait...
May 31, 2026 from Peter's Path Suicidal Empathy by Gad Saad Why read the book? Gad Saad wrote Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind. He is an evolutionary psychologist who studies how bad ideas spread. In this book he explains how empathy, a useful human trait...
May 31, 2026 from Hackaday Loading Sega Genesis Games Off a Vinyl Record Recently [Throaty Mumbo] took a poke at another daft idea, in the form of loading Sega Genesis games off vinyl records. Although a whacky idea, it’s made possible through the …read more
May 31, 2026 from Chuniversiteit People are apparently farming citations on ResearchGate This week’s paper about citation farming is right at the intersection of two of my “favourite” subjects: AI slop and academic fraud.
May 31, 2026 from Hackaday Ebike Display Uses Reflective LCD Although LCD displays have been used in almost every type of consumer electronics display over the last two decades, many of these screens have a few downsides that limit their …read more
May 31, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual Flutter Web: Schlechte Idee Warum ich Flutter für eine furchbare Idee halte, wenn damit Webapps gebaut werden.
May 31, 2026 from Kev Quirk 📝 2026-05-31 09:25 I've been thinking about getting a #3DPrinter recently. Never used one before but I think it would be useful/interesting. I have no experience with them, and don't want to spend a tonne of money. E...
May 31, 2026 from Kev Quirk 📝 2026-05-31 09:20 It always makes me sad when bloggers have no way of easily contacting them on their site. I'd love to talk to you about your last post, but there's no way to email or comment. Posting your Twitter ...
May 31, 2026 from Hackaday Modern Graphics Via DisplayLink For Your ISA-Era PC The monitors used on older computers are now becoming difficult to find, as we doubt anything for MDA, CGA, Hercules, or EGA has been manufactured in decades. Even VGA, though …read more
May 31, 2026 from Hackaday The Final Steps to a Sub-Minute Benchy In 2024, [Jan Roetz] decided to see whether he could 3D print a Benchy – the boat-shaped benchmarking tool used in 3D printer calibration – in less than one minute. …read more
May 31, 2026 from Hackaday Poking Around with JTAG on a Guitar Amp You would think a guitar amplifier would be a straightforward piece of analog electronics. But, of course, these days, everything has firmware, including [mforney]’s Yamaha THR10c. The service manu...
May 31, 2026 from (Fabio Alessandro Locati|Fale)'s blog Btrfs scare Last weekend, I updated and rebooted the system, but it did not come back online. Checking with IPMI revealed that the ata-2 disk was not responding to the operating system, preventing a clean moun...
May 30, 2026 from Hackaday Keychain GameCube Controller Made Functional Mini game controllers with buttons and joysticks that move like the real deal are a pretty cool keychain and fidget toy, but at least for some of us there’s this …read more
May 30, 2026 from Bobby Hiltz Summer Game Challenge 2026 I have a handful of games that need completing. This is my Summer Game Challenge for 2026.
May 30, 2026 from GadgeteerZA Woman Alarmed When Her Trusted Therapist Starts Recording Her With AI — Where Is Her Voice Going? Don’t get me wrong, I think AI has very many useful things it can be used for. It can also be cloud based or self-hosted. But medical records, personal discussions, and most especially therapy sess...
May 30, 2026 from Hackaday Breaking Enigma with an FPGA, Just like at Bletchly Park The pioneering work done by Alan Turing and others at Bletchley Park in England was perhaps as important in the history of technology as it was the history of the …read more
May 30, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 30 May 2026 Phlegmish Edition Top Story In the comments yesterday, Seth asked:Regarding Anthropic and their IPO. Why the statement as to it crashing?Which is a fair question because Anthropic's Claude Code is ...
May 30, 2026 from Hackaday The Uncooperative Mirror Will Not Help You The value of a mirror is in its clarity. If the reflection is cast by [danicakostic17]’s Uncooperative Mirror though, you’ll find anything but. It’s described as a useless machine, because …read more
