Jul 21, 2026 from Hackaday Detection of a Four-Carbon Sugar in Interstellar Space Although life tends to find a way, something first has to kickstart said lifeforms. Exactly how the first biological cells formed on Earth – and potentially on other worlds – …read more
Jul 21, 2026 from BattlePenguin The End of Physical Media and The PS4 Pirate Pro Although I’ve bought some digital titles on PC (via Steam, GoG and other stores) and a few titles on a very old PS Vita, starting with my PlayStation 4 Pro, I decided to only purchase games on phys...
Jul 21, 2026 from Julia Evans Some more things about Django I've been enjoying Hello! I’m on a funny journey right now where I’m trying to learn how to make websites in a sort of 2010 style, where I have an SQL database and render some HTML on the backend. It’s kind of an int...
Jul 20, 2026 from Hackaday Sail Virtually Aboard the “Itanic” with IA-64 Emulator Intel’s Itanium architecture was an interesting experiment, but it has gone down in history as one of the chip giant’s bigger flops, so much so that it earned the name …read more
Jul 20, 2026 from GadgeteerZA OpenAI Exec Laments That China Is Giving Away Models So Good That For-Profit Companies Won’t Be Able to Compete “Last week, a Chinese-made large language model called Kimi K3, developed by Beijing-based firm Moonshot AI, burst onto the scene. The open-weight model impressed with early benchmark results, trad...
Jul 20, 2026 from Hackaday Echolocation for Drones Bats are remarkable creatures, able to fly at night or inside the confines of caves without light to guide their way. A team of researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) …read more
Jul 20, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 20 July 2026 Tally Deck Views Edition Top Story OpenAI has rushed to reassure users that the brand new GPT 5.6 still has all the same features they know and love. (InfoWorld) Like accidentally deleting all your...
Jul 20, 2026 from Hackaday A Feature-Rich Drum Machine A little over a month ago, we featured a project from [Igor] who built 64 bits of DRAM from scratch using discrete components. Jokes about memory pricing aside, he did …read more
Jul 20, 2026 from Hackaday Hackaday Europe 2026: Project Gigapixel There was once a race to put out cameras with ever higher numbers of megapixels to snare customers eager to take the highest quality digital photos. These days, we know …read more
Jul 20, 2026 from Peter's Path 2000 Years of Christ's Power Volume 3 by Nick Needham Why read the book? Nick Needham wrote 2000 Years of Christ's Power Volume 3: The Renaissance and Reformation. It is the third book in his clear and readable church history series. This volume cover...
Jul 20, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Hugging Face confirms it suffered a breach driven end-to-end by autonomous AI agent system Hugging Face has confirmed that it recently detected and responded to a security incident orchestrated entirely by an autonomous artificial intelligence agent system. This marks one of the first pu...
Jul 20, 2026 from Hackaday Old SSDs Find New Life as Game Cartridges Game companies might not like physical media much anymore, but gamers sure do. There’s nothing like pawing over your collection to find what to play, and inserting a cartridge with …read more
Jul 20, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Double Commander 1.2 brings support for high-DPI, cloud providers, JPEG XL, GTK 3 and more Double Commander 1.2 has been released as the latest version of this open source file manager with two panels side by side, inspired by Total Commander. This release advances cross-platform usabili...
Jul 20, 2026 from Hackaday Launching Rockets is Hard, Bring them Back is Harder Since the first V2 rocket sailed above the Kármán line back in 1944 and right up until the modern era, the trajectory of most space-bound rockets was more or less …read more
Jul 20, 2026 from Fatbobman's Blog When Inspiration Outruns the Results - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #145 Over the past few months, I've been refining my own AI-assisted workflow. Real progress has been made, but for long-running tasks, I've consistently lacked any quantifiable benchmark data.
Jul 20, 2026 from SIGPLAN Blog How the SIGPLAN Budget Works SIGPLAN runs on a simple arithmetic: around $2M USD a year in conference registration income from POPL, PLDI, ICFP, and SPLASH/OOPSLA must cover the conferences themselves, some $300K in annual com...
Jul 20, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Kitty 0.48 adds vertical tabs, improved graphics protocol, better peformance, and more Kitty 0.48 brings several significant updates to this GPU-based terminal emulator. Notably, it now offers vertical tab support along the left or right window edge, catering to users with wide aspec...
Jul 20, 2026 from Hackaday Earth-like LHS 1140b May Feature the First Atmosphere Found on Exoplanet Finding another planet outside of our solar system that can comfortably be called ‘Earth-like’ is one of those discoveries that — if confirmed — would be a major event. The …read more
Jul 20, 2026 from Jordi Villar 2026W28 @clickhouse/rowbinary: when your library is also a parser compiler — The framing that stuck with me is that the compiler here is the LLM itself. Instead of shipping a codegen tool, they ship tested...
Jul 20, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Hyprland 0.56 adds new layout options and expands Lua API features Hyprland 0.56 introduces new scrolling and master layout options, including fit_into_view and focus_master_on_close, giving users more control over their workspace organization. The update also exp...
