Oct 29, 2026 from Hackaday 2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: Custom RISC-V Processor For Retro System Although once little more than an academic endeavor, the RISC-V architecture is slowly supplanting applications that would have normally gone to ARM. Even a few microcontrollers have chips running ...
Oct 29, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Google DeepMind previews Genie 4 with real-time world editing and explorable environments Google DeepMind has introduced Genie 4 in a research preview. The AI world model generates explorable virtual environments that respond to user interactions, with higher visual fidelity and improve...
Oct 29, 2026 from Matthew Brunelle's Blog Self-Hosting a Tangled Knot Using Clan and NixOS You can self-host your own repository on the federated code forge Tangled. With first class support for Nix, Tangled pairs well using Clan to handle the deployment.
Oct 29, 2026 from Hackaday Battery Prototype Uses Superextensive Quantum Effects to Charge Faster Although the term ‘quantum battery’ is a bit of a vague term, the cell that [Kieran Hymas] et al. demonstrate in a recent paper does seem to suggest that it …read more
Oct 29, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Churanoumi Becomes First Sumo Wrestler From Okinawa to Reach Sanyaku Churanoumi became the first sumo wrestler from Okinawa Prefecture to reach sumo wrestling’s sanyaku ranks. He will make his sankyaki debut at Komusubi 1-East at the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament, wh...
Oct 28, 2026 from Hackaday Hacking the Modern Tamagotchi With UART Although not technically the first virtual pet, the Tamagotchi handhelds certainly popularized the idea and made it a worldwide phenomenon. In the late 90s it was hard to go out …read more
Oct 28, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Firefox 159 brings page change tracking, improved macOS sharing, and Google Lens on iOS Mozilla has shipped Firefox 159, headlining the release with expanded abilities for its AI-powered Smart Window. Users can now ask the browser to monitor pages for changes such as price drops or re...
Oct 28, 2026 from Bobby Hiltz What's Happening With My Blog? This blog was recently remade using Violet, this is a meta post.
Oct 28, 2026 from Hackaday Does Running an E-Paper Display at 30 FPS Destroy It? Although e-paper displays are famous for being low-power and lasting essentially forever if not damaged physically, the recent push to drive even cheaper e-paper displays at a framerate like 30 …re...
Oct 28, 2026 from Hackaday C64 Keycaps For Everybody If you’ve got an MX-style keyboard and want some retro charm, you might like a recent project from [Levente Szabadkai]. It’s a set of C64-style keycaps that you can print …read more
Oct 28, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 28 October 2026 Use The Four Luke Edition Top Story The Four Awakens: If you have a device running the GoAhead embedded web server - which you might be, because there are reportedly hundreds of millions of these, ...
Oct 28, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Ghostty 1.4 brings full Kitty graphics support and performance & memory improvements Ghostty 1.4 has officially launched, delivering compatibility with macOS 27 “Golden Gate” alongside a suite of high-performance upgrades that position the terminal emulator as a leader in modern te...
Oct 28, 2026 from It's FOSS Jadens JD-166 Review: Portable, Inkless Thermal Printer on Linux A small, portable printer that prints A4 papers without ink on Debian-based Linux distros.
Oct 28, 2026 from ℤ→ℤ Gemini 3.8 OCR Costs In my recent article on the price and performance of some commercial OCR (optical character recognition) models, I predicted Google’s Gemini 3.8 would cost $35.30 ± $23.70 to convert 1,000 pages co...
Oct 28, 2026 from Hackaday Turning an Old Phone’s Motherboard into an RC Plane Controller Upcycling smartphones makes a lot of sense, especially since they contain so many components that remain useful long after their desirability as a smartphone has faded. In the case of …read more
Oct 28, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Pharo 14 released with modernized development tools and virtual machine The Pharo project has officially released version 14 of its Smalltalk-based living development environment, marking not only a significant technical update but also a strategic shift in release cad...
Oct 28, 2026 from Hackaday JPEG-XL Is Back On The Menu Many of the image formats we’re familiar with have been around for decades. We all know JPEG and PNG like the back of our hands, and GIF even had a …read more
Oct 28, 2026 from It's FOSS Local AI Weekly #7: Bubble or Not? China's AI stocks lost $480 billion. But SK Hynix posted record profits and says RAM stays scarce till 2030. Bubbles pop, prices don't.
Oct 28, 2026 from It's FOSS Local AI Weekly #7: Bubble or Not? China's AI stocks lost $480 billion. But SK Hynix posted record profits and says RAM stays scarce till 2030. Bubbles pop, prices don't.
Oct 28, 2026 from Hackaday Emulate the 486 in Your Browser You might fondly remember the days of the Intel 486, but you probably don’t have one on your desk anymore. If you’d like to emulate that classic hardware, you can …read more
