Sep 04, 2026 from Hackaday Tube Launch Boosts Rocket’s Performance If you want improve a model rocket’s performance, all the common options come with serious trade-offs: you could increase the motor’s size, which raises safety issues, or you could cut …read more
Sep 04, 2026 from Hackaday Corners Lifting On 3D Prints? Guide Gives Prevention Tips Large prints have a risk of warping, by which we mean corners can lift off the print bed as the object sort of curls inward on itself. It’s not always …read more
Sep 03, 2026 from Hackaday How to Avoid Getting Arc Flashed After getting called out in the field to troubleshoot a large PV solar installation, [Derek] found himself suddenly in the midst of an arc flash, causing burns all over his …read more
Sep 03, 2026 from Hackaday A Split Keyboard Designed for Human Hands A surprising number of things we use in everyday life retain most of their design cues from their 19th century ancestors. The bicycle retains the same basic design as it …read more
Sep 03, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 3 September 2026 Fonted Edition Top Story A group called Nexus is advertising 153 million US drivers licenses for sale on Russian exploit site Exploit. (Krebs On Security) They advertised this with a photo of the d...
Sep 03, 2026 from Hackaday Exploring the Downsides of Cooling Roof Paint The idea of painting a roof or wall white in order to reflect sunshine and keep the building’s insides cool is hardly a new one, and even in the loosest …read more
Sep 03, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Vivaldi 8.2 brings address bar calculator and easier PWA installation to its web browser Vivaldi has released version 8.2, arriving three months after the browser's major 8.0 update. The release adds address-field tools and makes progressive web app installation more visible. For calcu...
Sep 03, 2026 from Hackaday Hackaday Europe 2026: Fluid Kernels and Optimizing C++ for MCUs Oftentimes, when we’re using a microcontroller, we’re whipping up some very specific code focused on executing a particular task. The device is set up to execute code that does exactly …read more
Sep 03, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net WooCommerce 11.1 brings native variation image galleries WooCommerce 11.1 makes product variation image galleries a native feature for all stores, retiring the separate WooCommerce Additional Variation Images extension. It also adds an optional order wit...
Sep 03, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Paint.NET 5.2 Alpha adds Mosaic modes and WINE support Paint.NET 5.2 Alpha introduces extremely experimental support for running through WINE on Linux. The build also moves to .NET 11 Preview, which includes a fix for a WinForms input bug reported with...
Sep 03, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Polars 2.0 RC makes streaming the default LazyFrame engine The Polars 2.0 release candidate makes the streaming engine the default when collecting LazyFrame queries, with Polars estimating aggregate streaming performance could be 5x faster. The change can ...
Sep 03, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Kotlin Toolchain 0.12 brings multiplatform publishing and Wasm Kotlin Toolchain 0.12 adds publishing for Kotlin Multiplatform libraries, including common APIs, platform artifacts, sources, metadata, and C interop bindings. It also lets wasm-js/app modules buil...
Sep 03, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Tails 7.12 starts two-week updates with Tor Browser 15.0.21 Tails 7.12 is the first release on the project's new two-week update schedule, following the release cadence adopted by Firefox and Tor Browser. It updates Tor Browser to 15.0.21, Electrum to 4.8.1...
Sep 03, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Meta introduces Muse Spark 1.3 for agentic and coding work Meta is rolling out Muse Spark 1.3 in Muse Code and the Meta Model API, adding support for longer agentic workflows, multi-task handling, clarifying questions, and confirmations before consequentia...
Sep 03, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net AlternativeTo welcomes PrivacyNotes as our new official partner! We're thrilled to announce that PrivacyNotes is joining the AlternativeTo family as our newest official partner! PrivacyNotes is a privacy-focused, open source note-taking application, and it ticks...
Sep 03, 2026 from Hackaday A Thoroughly Modern Minimalist Transceiver Making a radio is so often a case of taking tried and tested designs and working with them to create something new. It’s a safe way to make something that …read more
Sep 03, 2026 from Hackaday From a Ten-Line Script to a Real Utility with Codex I’m an experienced programmer, and I’ve worked in many different languages. Sometimes being a programmer is a two-edged sword. You want to accomplish something, and you can do it easily …read more
Sep 03, 2026 from Kev Quirk 2026-09-03 14:47: Why do so many calendar apps offer Sunday as the first day of the week?... Why do so many calendar apps offer Sunday as the first day of the week? It's not the first day of the week, it's the last. Why is that even an option FFS? Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS ...
Sep 03, 2026 from It's FOSS FOSS Weekly #26.36: Debian CERN Win, Faster Firefox, Free Bash Course, Grub Customization and More Linux Stuff A faster Firefox is a better Firefox.
Sep 03, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Android will soon help you remember where you left things, ease motion sickness, and more Google has released its September Android Drop, adding features for photo editing, messaging, search, and use while traveling. Search Live is now available globally, letting people ask follow-up qu...
