Aug 19, 2026 from Hackaday Mini Blinking Barrels Keep Desktop Traffic in Check Your desk or bench is a work area, so why not make it look the part? That’s the idea behind the miniature blinking traffic barrels that [Glen Akins] recently put …read more
Aug 19, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual Erlebnis Sonnenfinsternis: Der Komödie zweiter Teil Wie ein sonniger Tag sich kurz vor Beginn der Sonnenfinsternis in eine Waschküche verwandelte.
Aug 19, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 19 August 2026 Triple-Baked Baklava Edition Top Story A federal judge has ruled that a state judge who used AI to handle the entire decision in a case so she could spend the day playing Cookie Run Kingdom or some...
Aug 19, 2026 from GadgeteerZA Moving your Linux home folder to a dedicated drive is the distro-hopping secret I wish I knew earlier “Home is where the heart is. On Linux, home is where everything personal to you is: your documents, downloads, screenshots, and configuration. In fact, your home is so special, you really ought to ...
Aug 19, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-19-26 Keeping the Pook-Emu Bee weekday streak going on this sunny (here in Brooklyn, at least) August 19, 2026. 1 | Vindman Vaporizes $16.2 Million in Loss, Spends 36X DSA Candidate on Ads (Paul Bois for...
Aug 19, 2026 from Hackaday Historical Hack: Henri Griffard’s Steam Injectors Here’s a historical hack for you: you have a big, rolling pressurized kettle, also known as a steam locomotive. It needs water to make up for the steam constantly chuff-chuff-chuffing …read more
Aug 19, 2026 from Hackaday Smarting Up a Doorbell with Zigbee Once upon a time a doorbell was little more than a button, a transformer, and a bell tucked somewhere around the house. These days, they get a little bit fancier. …read more
Aug 19, 2026 from Kev Quirk Gamifying Snacking with Snacker Tracker So one of the things I've been trying to do as part of my journey to lose weight and get fit is sort my diet out. As the saying goes, "you can't out-train a poor diet". And the worst part of my die...
Aug 19, 2026 from Hackaday Hackaday Europe 2026: The 1-Bit CPU That Ran Factories Powered machinery started the industrial revolution, and it was automation that kicked it up another notch in the 20th century. The ability for machines to make things by themselves spurred …read more
Aug 19, 2026 from Fatbobman's Blog From Using AI to Delegating Work to AI: Some Thoughts From Q&A, code generation, to letting Agent take on more complete work,不知不觉间，我已经使用 AI 好几年了。这些年里，变化的不只是模型能力，人与 AI 的协作方式也一直在变。我也在一边使用，一边调整自己的方法。我关心的已经不只是“AI 能不能完成这项工作”，而是另外几个问题：执行范围是否稳定，结果能否被信任，投入是否可...
Aug 19, 2026 from Fatbobman's Blog From Using AI to Delegating Work to AI (Part 2): What I Mean by Delegability How to build a trusted AI collaborator? Discover "delegatability" using a deterministic runtime and external docs, featuring a practical Task-Driven workflow guide.
Aug 19, 2026 from It's FOSS Book Review: The Ultimate AI Guide for Linux Engineers A book specifically written for seasoned Linux professionals so that they can use AI effectively and safely in their workflow.
Aug 19, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Google's Gemini assistant has finally arrived in Chrome for all Android users in the U.S. Google has rolled out Gemini in Chrome for all Android users in the U.S., expanding the reach of its AI-powered browsing assistant. This release allows users to quickly summarize lengthy articles, ...
Aug 19, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Autodesk is discontinuing Mudbox, its digital 3D sculpting and painting software Autodesk has announced the discontinuation of Mudbox, its 3D sculpting and painting software used by artists across film, television, and game industries. This decision follows a period without maj...
Aug 19, 2026 from It's FOSS Murena Just Made The Fairphone (Gen. 6) Better! A new variant of the modular smartphone now offers 12GB of RAM and a Snapdragon 7s Gen 4 upgrade.
Aug 19, 2026 from Hackaday Simple DIY STM32 Oscilloscope Project In part one of what is intended to be a series on developing an STM32-based oscilloscope, [BTTLab] demonstrates a how to use the built-in ADC of an STM32F207 MCU to …read more
Aug 19, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net UptimeRobot announces official CLI for monitor and status management UptimeRobot has released an official CLI tool on npm for managing monitors, incidents, and status pages directly from the command line. It covers the complete API v3 feature set, offering over 70 c...
Aug 19, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Thunderbird 154.0 adds system tray mode, macOS previews, and Microsoft 365 updates Thunderbird 154.0 introduces an optional system tray mode, allowing users to hide the app when the last window is closed. This release adds attachment preview support for macOS and enables Microsof...
Aug 19, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Files v4.2.7 improves context menu speed and adds new tab feature Files v4.2.7 now offers significantly faster and more responsive context menus. Users can also open a new tab by middle-clicking an empty area of the tab strip. The update further reduces memory us...
Aug 19, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net ElevenLabs MCP now available in Claude for agent management ElevenLabs MCP is now accessible within Claude, enabling teams to manage voice and chat agents directly in their existing workflow. Users can review performance, configure agents, and estimate LLM ...
