Aug 15, 2026 from Peter's Path Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne Why read the book? Jules Verne published Journey to the Centre of the Earth in 1864. Professor Otto Lidenbrock finds a coded message from an old Icelandic explorer. He sets out with his nephew Axel...
Aug 15, 2026 from Hackaday Fully Characterized Systems A friend from my old hackerspace was in grad school for electrical engineering. He had a professor who would ask, when something went wrong with a student project, “Have you …read more
Aug 15, 2026 from Hackaday ESP32 Music Sequencer is Clearly Nailing the Y2K Aesthetic Do you remember back when electronics came in clear cases? Back around the turn of the millennium, when translucency was chic. [3DSage] sure does, which is why he went to …read more
Aug 15, 2026 from Hackaday A Tape Deck Gets a Service If there’s an engineer’s equivalent to those YouTube ASMR videos, then perhaps it comes in a good repair or servicing journey filmed without edits at the bench. Relaxing to watch, …read more
Aug 15, 2026 from It's FOSS Overshared to an AI? Proton's Tool Will Give You a Reality Check Powered by Lumo, the tool turns your exported AI chat history into a personalized report of your privacy exposure.
Aug 15, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net OpenAI launches a Computer History feature that tracks user activity across apps and sites OpenAI has introduced Computer History in the ChatGPT desktop app for macOS, a new feature that enables the app to track user activity and interactions across applications and websites to give Chat...
Aug 15, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Google releases Gemini 3.7 Flash with enhanced agentic coding and lower API pricing Google has introduced Gemini 3.7 Flash, a new general purpose AI model that improves coding, automation, document processing, and agentic performance while cutting API pricing compared with its pre...
Aug 15, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net X is open sourcing its "For You" algorithm and letting users check for shadowbans X is publishing more of the source-code behind its “For You” timeline and core ranking system on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 license, including model configuration, filters, ranking parameters, and...
Aug 15, 2026 from Hackaday Twin Guitar-Playing Robots Will Work for Tab Remember Animusic? They were these incredible animated music videos with original tunes being played by computer-generated robots. Well, the MegCell Pulse might be the coolest robots-playing-music ...
Aug 15, 2026 from Hackaday Large-Scale Pokémon Eviction Looms with Pokémon Bank Server Shutdown After the Nintendo 3DS handheld console saw most its online services including the online store (eShop) taken offline not too long ago, it was only a matter of time before …read more
Aug 15, 2026 from It's FOSS Nitrux Shows Off a New Desktop Approach Other Distros Might Want to Take Note of It is meant to be a middle ground between window managers and desktop environments.
Aug 15, 2026 from Toni Notes Why most blog advice does not apply to small publications Most blogging advice is built for marketing assets at a different scale. When a small publication imports that infrastructure, the result is friction, guilt, and frameworks for a business that is n...
Aug 14, 2026 from Hackaday Submersible drone analyzes ice Doing anything on a frozen lake can carries some amount of risk. Nevertheless, every year events ranging from car racing to ice skating are held on them. As such, proper …read more
Aug 14, 2026 from Hackaday Automatic Naptime with BabyBjorn Bouncing Servo Any parent with a baby and deep pockets– or friends with deep pockets– will probably sing the praises of the BabyBjorn rocking sling chair. A simple spring-loaded sling seat allows …read more
Aug 14, 2026 from ℤ→ℤ Number of bags of a given length with exactly d distinct elements We develop a formula for counting the number of bags of length \(l\) containing \(d\) distinct elements drawn from \(t\) objects. The formula involves multiplication of combinations without replace...
Aug 14, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 14 August 2026 Two Ventlemen Of Genoa Edition Top Story You get a letter of marque and reprisal! And you get a letter of marque and reprisal! Everybody gets a letter of marque and reprisal! (White House) (Yes, th...
Aug 14, 2026 from Journal on n3s0 || journal Buenos Aires: Kubernetes Pod Crashing Scenario There are two pods: “logger” and “logshipper” living in the default namespace. Unfortunately, logshipper has an issue (crashlooping) and is forbidden to see what logger is trying to say. C...
Aug 14, 2026 from Hackaday Uninvasive EEG Interface Could Be Used To Play Games These days, most of us interface with our computing devices in the same old-fashioned ways—via keyboards, mice, and touchscreens. The idea of a more direct brain-to-machine interface remains appeal...
Aug 14, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-14-26 Let us complete our perfect Pook-Emu Bee link week before our regularly scheduled day off for Newsletter Saturday. 1 | Sekiwake Wakatakakage Begins Rehabilitation After Narrowly Avoiding Leg Amputa...
Aug 14, 2026 from Hackaday Hackaday Podcast Episode 382: Glueballs, Borg Cubes, and Supersonic Trebuchets It’s still hot on both sides of the Atlantic, but Kristina has a new secret weapon for staying cool without making noise. Will Elliot and the others follow suit? Time …read more
