Aug 18, 2026 from Hackaday PolyShot Camera Focuses On Nostalgia Although we personally have yet to see anyone brandishing an old digital point-and-shoot camera, we hear they’re back in vogue. Why, though? People are nostalgic for that image quality. While …read...
Aug 18, 2026 from GadgeteerZA Open Source Caving: 20 Years of Making Cave Mapping Tools “In his talk Open Source Caving: 20 Years of Making Cave Mapping Tools at Hackaday Europe 2026, Phil takes us through a series of progressively more advanced open hardware devices that he’s designe...
Aug 18, 2026 from Kev Quirk The Smell of AI The Smell of AIby Kevin WammerKevin talks about his opinions for various use cases for AI and LLMs.Read post ➡ I started reading this post and thought to myself "oh here we go, another piece about ...
Aug 18, 2026 from GadgeteerZA N64 classic GoldenEye 007 has been 100% decompiled, paving the way for mods and ports “Rare’s GoldenEye 007, which dropped back in 1997, is one of the most influential games in history. It arguably established the FPS genre on consoles thanks to its local four-player split-screen mu...
Aug 18, 2026 from Hackaday Announcing the 2026 Hackaday Retrocomputing Challenge What is it about retrocomputing? For some people, it’s nostalgia. For others, it’s the appeal of simplicity. For still others, it’s the chance to save old machines from the graveyard. …read more
Aug 18, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-18-26 Another weekday means another set of Poook-Emu Bee links. 1 | Jeanie Buss battling siblings over sale of remaining Lakers shares to new ownership group: reports (Scott Thompson for Fox Business. Au...
Aug 18, 2026 from Hackaday So, You Want to Fix an Old Camera Old cameras are a fantastic way to experiment with photography, and outside a few brands, they can be an inexpensive way too. It’s easy to find older cameras in a …read more
Aug 18, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net AI coding platform Cursor launches Origin, a code hosting service to compete with GitHub Cursor has launched Origin, a new capability that allows users to host their code directly within the AI coding platform. Starting today, Origin is available in early beta for all paid plans and in...
Aug 18, 2026 from Hackaday Smartphones and the Next Generation of Hearing Aids If you don’t actually need one, you’d be forgiven for thinking a hearing aid just makes everything louder for the wearer. Especially since there are plenty of shady products out …read more
Aug 18, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net YouTube will now count views the moment a video begins to play, from the very first frame YouTube is set to standardize its public view counting system across all video formats, aiming to enhance consistency and clarity on the platform. Previously, the company implemented a revised view...
Aug 18, 2026 from It's FOSS This Solo Dev Already Built a Popular Distro. Now He's Trying It Again Built on AlmaLinux with bootc, it promises atomic updates and zero manual upkeep.
Aug 18, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Zotero 10 improves search capabilities, adds PDF reading mode, and brings multi-selection Zotero 10 has been released as the newest version of this open source research management software. The update introduces a redesigned advanced search, now accessible via a filter button in the qui...
Aug 18, 2026 from Hackaday Watch Soldering Up Close and From Any Angle, in VR A manual skill like soldering is so much easier to learn and grasp when one can watch it in action, and there’s a brand new way to do that using …read more
Aug 18, 2026 from It's FOSS The Xen Project is Serious About Safety, So It Formed a Committee Founding members AMD, EPAM, and Renesas already put in the groundwork, and there's a new Premier Plus membership tier to go with it.
Aug 18, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net SpaceXAI has launched Grok 4.6, matching ChatGPT 5.6 Sol in several AI benchmarks SpaceXAI has launched Grok 4.6, the newest version of its widely used artificial intelligence model. This update is now accessible across platforms such as Cursor, Grok Build, OpenRouter, Vercel, C...
Aug 18, 2026 from Hackaday Store Tunes on Paper and Stream Them Over LoRA Some projects seem too good to be true until you dig into it and find the secret magic that makes it all work. Take Paper Tunes by [Makestreame], a project …read more
Aug 18, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Stripe will reportedly acquire AI model router OpenRouter in deal exceeding $7 billion Stripe has reportedly finalized an agreement to acquire OpenRouter, according to a report from Bloomberg, with sources indicating a deal price above $7 billion. This development follows a recent re...
Aug 18, 2026 from It's FOSS I Found an Easy Way to Make GNOME More Colorful Rewaita makes it easy to recolor GTK and Libadwaita apps with popular palettes, custom colors and a few extra visual effects.
Aug 18, 2026 from Hackaday Using Acoustic Resonators as Thrusters for Small Robots There are quite a few rather unconventional methods of propulsion, but perhaps one of the more curious approaches involved Helmholtz resonance, as demonstrated by [Junsun Hwang] et al. with a …read...
Aug 18, 2026 from Hackaday Edison Motors Offering All-Mechanical Trucks, At Least to Start We’ve been following Canadian startup Edison Motors for some time now, but their latest offering caught us a bit off guard– their BDE-sieries truck will be offered first without the …read more
