Oct 11, 2026 from Hackaday Unique Archeological Discovery Sheds Light on Neanderthal Wooden Tool Usage The Abric Romaní site in Spain is rather unique in archeology for one simple reason: the caves in its limestone-rich cliff have seen humanoid occupation for thousands of years. A …read more
Oct 11, 2026 from MacBorn Disk Utility or VeraCrypt: How should you encrypt files on a Mac? I needed to protect files stored in iCloud and on an external USB drive, so I compared VeraCrypt with the encrypted disk images built into macOS.
Oct 11, 2026 from MacBorn Disk Utility vs. VeraCrypt: How to encrypt files on a Mac I needed to protect files stored in iCloud and on an external USB drive, so I compared VeraCrypt with the encrypted disk images built into macOS.
Oct 10, 2026 from Hackaday Poking at the Radxa Dragon Q8B Raspberry Pi 5 Killer Although the asking price of $209 plus shipping seems high for the Radxa Dragon Q8B, featuring the Qualcomm SC8280XP and 8 GB of LPDDR4X, this is 2026, and amid the …read more
Oct 10, 2026 from Matt Rasmussen Are you playing Flask? Flask? It’s only a roguelike deckbuilding autobattler with art by John Kenn Mortensen. Who wants that? Who would even play the demo on Steam? Who’s Ghost Ship, and why is their Deep Rock Galactic? ...
Oct 10, 2026 from Hackaday Valve Releases Hardware and CAD Reference For New VR Headset Valve recently began shipping its long-awaited VR headset, the Steam Frame. Now, there is a hardware reference repository that includes everything a budding modder might need, and then some. Want …...
Oct 10, 2026 from Hackaday Restoring an Altimeter Watch to Former Heights Finding inexpensive broken hardware for sale, buying it, and restoring it to working condition is a long-standing tradition for hackers on a limited budge. But there are some devices that …read more
Oct 10, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 10 October 2026 Wavy Tableau Edition Top Story The US government have suspended US companies Microsoft, Adobe, and Cognizant, and a bunch of European and Indian IT companies as well, from the H-1B visa scheme. (Te...
Oct 10, 2026 from Hackaday The Weirdest Video Games were Hacks We were looking into the marvelous recent project by [Throaty Mumbo] to recreate and reimagine the forgotten world of VHS-tape-based video games. Wait, what? Yes, back in the day, when …read more
Oct 10, 2026 from GadgeteerZA No phone signal? LastBar will find the nearest place that has it. “LastBar is a map of where mobile phones have signal and where they do not, made by the phones of the people who use it. When you are stuck with no bars, it gives you the distance and the direction...
Oct 10, 2026 from Hackaday Why Every Microwave Has a “Popcorn” Button, But Every Bag Warns You Not to Use It [Hyperfixed] has a podcast episode that does a deep dive into exactly why bags of microwave popcorn advise against using your microwave’s popcorn setting (in North America, anyway.) The answer …rea...
Oct 10, 2026 from It's FOSS BentoPDF Handles PDFs Locally, So You Don’t Have to Upload Them to Websites This open source, browser-based PDF toolkit is free to use and ships with a surprisingly long list of tools.
Oct 10, 2026 from Hackaday Another IKEA Product Yields an LED Matrix The IKEA Kortlinje is a digital clock that costs around 20 dollars, featuring a hygrometer and thermometer. It’s another cheap appliance, you might think, were it not that the display …read more
Oct 10, 2026 from Hackaday Super Mario 64 Comes to the Microsoft Zune As a portable media player, Microsoft’s Zune simply couldn’t compete with Apple’s juggernaut iPod — the latter essentially becoming the de facto personal media player until smartphones took over. B...
Oct 10, 2026 from Chuck Carroll's RSS Feed Implementing a 3-2-1 Backup Strategy with restic and Backblaze B2 In order to follow a proper 3-2-1 backup strategy, you should have three copies of your important data: two local on different media types, and one off site. For local, I have a DAS with two 14TB d...
Oct 10, 2026 from Hackaday 2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: NEC 286 Laptop Rides Again The sad reality is that all consumer electronics are going to be e-waste eventually. [Cory Whitesell] was determined his old NEC ProSpeed 286 Laptop wouldn’t meet that fate until absolutely …read more
Oct 10, 2026 from Boris Tane Self-improving software is inevitable Production tells us exactly how to make our software better, we've just never had the tools to run this on auto-pilot.
Oct 09, 2026 from Hackaday Embedded 3D Printing with Liquids on a Bricked Prusa FDM Printer Recently [Riley] got his paws on an old Prusa i3 FDM printer that had clearly seen better days, with a hot-end that had suffered an explosive blow-out. For the project …read more
Oct 09, 2026 from Hackaday Two-Component H-shifter for Racing Sims Flying and driving simulators can go as far as money will take you, and at some point it might end up being cheaper to buy a plane or race car …read more
Oct 09, 2026 from R74n Newsletter New Minigame: Human Tier List You can now rank every human on Earth with a single webpage.
