Oct 17, 2026 from It's FOSS Not Every Open Source OS Needs to Be Based on Linux, and These Six Aren’t There are more operating systems than just Linux. Here's a list of a few that are under active development.
Oct 17, 2026 from GadgeteerZA The Beginner’s Almanac for Wet Shaving “The first week in any wet shaving group feels like walking into a conversation halfway through. Somebody posts an SOTD with a three-piece OC and a croap, somebody else asks whether a G5 knot will ...
Oct 17, 2026 from Hackaday SolidCraft is Parametric, Automation-friendly CAD for Desktop and Browser If you’re looking to try a new, open source 3D modeling CAD suite, especially one with automation-friendly interfaces, take a look at SolidCraft. It’s under development but there’s support for …rea...
Oct 17, 2026 from Kev Quirk 2026-10-17 11:37: We had a Hotpoint engineer come out to repair our washing machine yesterday. While replacing... We had a Hotpoint engineer come out to repair our washing machine yesterday. While replacing the machine, he forgot to connect the waste pipe and we came down to this mess this morning. 😡 Thanks fo...
Oct 17, 2026 from Hackaday Making One Fender From Another There’s a tendency among cherished brands to licence their name and logo onto all sorts of novelty items in order to make a quick buck. Joining this trend is the …read more
Oct 17, 2026 from Hackaday TAKTO, Open Source Hand-Tracking Built Like LEGO Hand tracking in VR/AR can add a substantial amount of immersion and added interactivity. Unfortunately, most camera based tracking suffers when fingers get covered, intertwined, or simply out of v...
Oct 17, 2026 from Hackaday The Trials And Tribulations Of Your First Badge On the face of it, making an event badge should be an easy process. After all, most of us can hand-assemble a microcontroller, some buttons, a battery, and a screen. …read more
Oct 17, 2026 from Ryan Schachte's Blog Taking back control of old.reddit.com In June, Reddit put old.reddit.com behind a login. It already blocked Mullvad, the VPN I use, so I was locked out entirely and lost any motivation to go back. Fast forward to today and things are a...
Oct 17, 2026 from MacBorn Playing Quake III Arena on a modern Mac I returned to Quake III Arena after many years and used ioquake3 to get it running on my MacBook.
Oct 16, 2026 from Hackaday Simplifying Slide Rule Calculations with Trig [Bob the Science Guy] remembers how to use a slide rule. Even after all these years, it is pretty easy to remember how to multiply and divide. If you can’t …read more
Oct 16, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual Rollenspielszenen: Ups. Die Gruppe findet eine Wand-Illusion in einer Höhle. Wie geht sie vor?
Oct 16, 2026 from Hackaday The 10€ Gamepad We aren’t sure what [Lazy_Duck] is doing with video games, but it must require a lot of controllers. Dismayed at the cost and complexity of commercial gamepads, they started soldering …read more
Oct 16, 2026 from Hackaday Fairbuds 2 Teardown Shows Little Glue, Easy Battery Swap In a world where wireless earbuds are increasingly seen as devices that you toss into the e-waste bin as soon as they stop working, it’s heartening to see companies take …read more
Oct 16, 2026 from Thejesh GN Weekly Notes 42/2026 It was my birthday week. I took the day off and didn’t do much. Anju took me to Mai Mai on MG Road. I loved the food. I also liked that we could sit outside. It’s rarely possible in Bangalore these...
Oct 16, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Ubuntu 26.10 is here with Linux 7.3 kernel, GNOME 51, Rust coreutils & Myna speech-to-text Canonical has announced that Ubuntu 26.10, code-named “Stonking Stingray”, is now available for download and installation. The company framed the release as one that both consolidates earlier groun...
Oct 16, 2026 from Hackaday Hackaday Podcast Episode 391: Tuned in to ESP32 SDR, New Old Pagers, and Bugs on Mars Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi start this episode off with a discussion about Philadelphia’s budding hacker conference and the imminent retirement of the EZ80. After considering the...
Oct 16, 2026 from Hackaday Braino! Takes the Cheap Yellow Display to School These days, it’s common to give even very young children a mobile device loaded up with educational software that aims to improve everything from basic motor skills to reading and …read more
Oct 16, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Sync-in 2.6 brings draw.io integration, a redesigned image viewer and unified search modes Sync-in has released version 2.6 of its collaborative platform, headlined by the integration of draw.io, the popular open-source diagram editor. According to the company's official announcement, th...
Oct 16, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 16 October 2026 Prewhining Edition Top Story Tesla announced its new model Roadster - yes, the one The Verge was whining about. Taking reservations now for delivery in 2028. Or later. It flies. (Business Insider) ...
Oct 16, 2026 from Hackaday This Week in Security: Critical DNS Keys Rotated, Hacking Freezers Isn’t Cool, OpenAI Spies On Itself, and Advanced Hardware Wallet Hacks Critical Internet keys changed this week. Did you notice? The keys behind DNSSEC, the system for cryptographically validating DNS responses, rolled over on October 11 2026. This is the second …rea...
