Oct 09, 2026 from Hackaday Belt File from Old Mixer and Junk Bin Parts Making one’s own power tools can be a rewarding way to upcycle parts, and [bluesyann] does exactly that with a belt file made from an old mixer. We like how …read more
Oct 09, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Anthropic unveils Claude Haiku 5.5, its cheapest AI model with adjustable effort setting Anthropic has announced the release of Claude Haiku 5.5, positioning it as the cheapest, fastest, and most capable small model in the company's lineup. The new model represents a significant price ...
Oct 09, 2026 from Hackaday Low Current Density Nickel Plating We imagine that electroplating is like making PC boards or soldering surface-mount chips. Before you’ve done it, it seems like a lot. Afterward, you can’t remember why it was such …read more
Oct 09, 2026 from Hackaday Introducing the Garlic-Powered Door and Window Sensor Most home security sensors require a chemical battery or external power source to operate, which can be a point of weakness. If the battery in a window or door sensor …read more
Oct 09, 2026 from Michael Lynch Why Are Coding Agents So Dumb? The first time I used a coding agent, I was mesmerized. Before the agent, I was copy/pasting between my IDE and an AI chat interface. It was amazing to see an agent edit files directly and fix its ...
Oct 09, 2026 from Merazi's blog Debian checkinstall utility I recently ended up on Debian’s “Don’t Break Debian” page while looking for advice about installing software that isn’t available in the standard repositories. The page contains plenty of sensible ...
Oct 08, 2026 from Hackaday Turning a Run-Over Samsung Galaxy S23 into a Gaming PC Repurposing old smartphones for more general purpose computing isn’t a new thing, but the project by [LastComputer] ups the ante by going from a Samsung Galaxy S23 that looks like …read more
Oct 08, 2026 from Hackaday The 80s Called: They Say This DIY Phone Is, Like, Totally Rad Like more than a few of us , [Kevin Noki] is sick of being pulled out of flow state by that annoyingly addictive black rectangle we all carry around. His …read more
Oct 08, 2026 from Hackaday Digital Signage in the Browser With Just a Click There are many ways to display text on a computer screen, but most require at least some manual effort from the user. It’s annoying enough even if you’re dealing with …read more
Oct 08, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Google unveils Playground: an AI platform that lets anyone create games without coding Google has launched Playground, a new experimental AI gaming platform that enables users to build, play, and share custom games without requiring any programming knowledge. Released yesterday for u...
Oct 08, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 8 October 2026 Gearded Becko Edition Top Story I wondered recently when Saleforce blamed their failure to increase profits on their AI spending habits what the hell they were doing with it, because while they did...
Oct 08, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Mellum2.1 brings coding agent skills to self-hosted AI Mellum2.1 adds repository-level coding-agent capabilities, letting the 12B mixture-of-experts model explore codebases, edit files, and check its changes. The update keeps Mellum2's 2.5B active-para...
Oct 08, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Duck.ai lets users share chats with expiring private links Duck.ai now lets users share individual responses or full conversations through links that recipients can read, continue, or save without an account. Chats are encrypted before upload, with the dec...
Oct 08, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Ghost adds analytics for welcome automation flows Ghost has added flow-level analytics for welcome automations, showing runs over time and how many members are in progress, completed the flow, or stopped early. The Automations tab also shows when ...
Oct 08, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Geekbench 7.1 adds CUDA support on Windows on ARM and Linux Geekbench 7.1 adds CUDA support for its GPU Benchmark on Windows on ARM and Linux, allowing NVIDIA GPU users on those platforms to run CUDA workloads. The release also updates TensorRT for RTX to v...
Oct 08, 2026 from Hackaday With Latest Update, Alexa Refuses to Pass the Aux Although the feature has been deleted from newer models, there was a time when Amazon’s Echo devices included a 3.5 mm “aux” input jack that let you connect other audio …read more
Oct 08, 2026 from It's FOSS FOSS Weekly #26.41: Open Source Trouble, More Rust in Ubuntu, Adobe Photoshop's Linux Clone, Rich CLI Tool and More Open Source projects are facing infrastructure trouble.
Oct 08, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Google ships JPEG XL image format support in latest Chrome 155 update Google has announced that Chrome 155 now includes native decoding support for JPEG XL (.jxl), marking a significant milestone for the next-generation image format that had faced years of uncertaint...
Oct 08, 2026 from GadgeteerZA Someone Vibe Coded a Free and Open Source Knockoff of Adobe Creative Suite “Using Claude Opus 5.5 and the programming language Rust, the creator of these apps, Atlanta-based Brandon Thomas, says he recreated Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Lightroom, Acrobat Pro, After ...
Oct 08, 2026 from Matthew Brunelle's Blog Setting up a Clan machine using PXE boot Can't find your drive to make a live USB? No problem, PXE boot has your back. I used it to provision a NixOS machine using Clan.
