May 14, 2026 from Hackaday Controlling a Vibrobot with Only One Motor The vibrobot – a vibrating motor and battery attached to the head of a brush – isn’t truly a robot, since its movement can’t be controlled, but it’s whetted the …read more
May 14, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Instagram launches Instants, a new disappearing photo app to rival Snapchat and BeReal Instagram has launched Instants, a new disappearing photo feature and standalone app to compete directly with Snapchat and other private photo sharing services like BeReal and Locket. It is availab...
May 14, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual Webbloat reduzieren 1,5 Megabyte? Das sind ja fast zwei Megabyte! Sechs Megabyte unkomprimiert! Zwanzig Megabyte im Debug-Build!
May 14, 2026 from Hackaday RS-485 Sprinkler Control: Scaling Irrigation Across the Farm Building your own sprinkler system controller isn’t that difficult on the face of it, but what happens when your system starts to grow, adding more distant areas? To tackle this, …read more
May 14, 2026 from GadgeteerZA Large Study Finds That Replacing Workers With AI Is Backfiring Badly “A new study from Gartner immediately caught our eye. As Fortune reports, the research and advisory firm surveyed 350 global business executives whose companies are pulling in at least $1 billion a...
May 14, 2026 from Hackaday ChargeCap Helps Your Batteries Last Longer By Limiting Charge Level If you want to maximize the life of your lithium-ion batteries, proper storage voltage is critical. That is, don’t store them empty, and don’t store them completely full either. “Almost …read more
May 14, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 14 May 2026 Thursday Edition Top Story This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays. Fragnesia is the fourth local privilege escalation bug to hit Linux in the past two weeks. (Phoronix) Bad ...
May 14, 2026 from GadgeteerZA With KOReader My ancient Kobo eReader is now better than a new Kindle The linked article inspired me to install KOReader on my old Kobo eReader. It was just a question of copying two files to the Kobo’s root directory, and running the install.sh script there. I then ...
May 14, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net WhatsApp brings private Incognito Chat with Meta AI and disappearing messages WhatsApp is introducing Incognito Chat with Meta AI, a new mode for private and temporary conversations with Meta’s AI. The feature is designed for more sensitive interactions, including financial,...
May 14, 2026 from Hackaday Ask Hackaday: Do We Need a 21st Century Calculator? Three resistors in parallel: 4.7 k,Ω 22 kΩ, and 3.3 kΩ. Quick! What’s the equivalent value? You can estimate it, of course, but if you want the actual 1.8 kΩ …read more
May 14, 2026 from Peter's Path The Wide Paved Road versus the Narrow Footpath Stories from many times and places show two ways of life. One way is wide and smooth like a paved road. It offers ease and pleasure. Many people choose it. Yet it leads to ruin. The other way is na...
May 14, 2026 from Peter's Path Ascension Day Happy Ascension Day to all of you. And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. - Acts 1:9 Let us remember what this day tru...
May 14, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Raycast launches public beta with new UI, files & folders on root search and AI dictation Raycast has launched the public beta of Raycast 2.0, its next major release, with a full rebuild, a redesigned interface, with simultaneous support for both macOS and Windows for the first time. On...
May 14, 2026 from Hackaday Automating Window Shades With Home Assistant Most people love window shades, but many dislike the tedium of having to open and close them over the course of each day. While there are automation options here, if …read more
May 14, 2026 from Karl Bartel's Website I prefer Djot over Markdown I prefer Djot over Markdown Why Djot? Markdown is very useful, widely adopted and at a first glance simple. But the simplicity falls apart when you look at edge cases, compatibility across applicat...
May 14, 2026 from Hackaday Teardown: ChargeTab Emergency Phone Charger If you own a modern smartphone, there’s an excellent chance that its battery has run dangerously low on you at least a few times. Murphy’s Law dictates that this will …read more
May 14, 2026 from It's FOSS FOSS Weekly #26.20: Killswitch in Linux, Fedora's AI Move, Rat in Terminal, KDE Dolphine Tweaks and More The kernel vulnerabilities and their fixes.
May 14, 2026 from It's FOSS This New Terminal is Absurd (But Totally Fun) Not every day you come across something absurd and fun and amusing at the same time.
May 14, 2026 from Rock and Null Pale Blue Spring Admin: Now you can actually edit stuff (and custom UI snippets) Read-only is great, but editing is better. The latest update to Pale Blue Spring Admin introduces full CRUD functionality and custom UI snippets, making your Spring Boot admin panel as powerful as ...
May 14, 2026 from Hackaday British Street Addresses, When Licenses Collide The world of open source — and in particular open source licenses — is something we cover regularly here at Hackaday with respect to hardware and software, but it’s not …read more
