Aug 11, 2026 from Hackaday A Keyboard with No Keys For as capable as smartphone hardware is, the software running on them can be especially restrictive and cumbersome. Unlike a single-board computer with GPIO running a standard Linux operating syst...
Aug 11, 2026 from Chuck Carroll's RSS Feed Converting FLACs to Opus I have music collection of over 12,000 tracks. I prefer to actually own my music (ie digital files) and being able to play it on any device I choose rather than using a service like Spotify. That s...
Aug 11, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Persona 4 Dungeons Were Stressful? Gamer Braves conducted an interesting interview with Wada Kazuhisa, who is producer of the upcoming Persona 4 Revival. Long-time NLJ readers may know that I am a Persona 4 fan, although I am not pa...
Aug 11, 2026 from Hackaday The PiShot Is Ready For Your Snaps The formula for a Raspberry Pi camera is by now a straightforward one: take a Pi and camera module, add a display, buttons, and battery, and you’re done. This doesn’t …read more
Aug 10, 2026 from Hackaday Cotton-Fiberglass Composite Makes Lightweight RV Countertops You’ve seen fiber-reinforced-plastic before, no doubt, but perhaps never quite like in this video by [Whitburn Studio]: it’s still got the usual resin, but instead of glass or carbon fibers, …read ...
Aug 10, 2026 from splitbrain.org - blog My new favorite Terminal My new favorite Terminal I have been using the XFCE terminal for decades now and it has always been good enough. However there was one thing that was starting to bug me. I usually prefer my termina...
Aug 10, 2026 from Hackaday Building a bicycle dropper seat post A recent addition to mountain bikes is the dropper seat post. This invention is in the vein of office swivel chairs, allowing the seat height to be adjusted with a …read more
Aug 10, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 10 August 2026 Aud Hep Edition Top Story A Google developer has vibe-coded an entire new browser - albeit one that doesn't browse the web. (XDA Developers) Instead it interprets every URL as an AI prompt and vibe...
Aug 10, 2026 from Hackaday Teardown of an Oxford Nanopore MinION DNA Sequencer For most people the term ‘DNA sequencing’ probably brings to mind large, expensive laboratory equipment in sterile rooms, but over the past decades technological progress really has had its way …re...
Aug 10, 2026 from Hackaday Linux Fu: Heads or Tails for VPN If you’ve done much networking, you surely know the frustration of trying to connect to something, say a Raspberry Pi, that lives behind your consumer router. There are a number …read more
Aug 10, 2026 from ℤ→ℤ Inventing ELIZA (Review) This year is the 60th anniversary of Joseph Weizenbaum’s article “ELIZA—A Computer Program For the Study of Natural Language Communication Between Man and Machine”. ELIZA was a natural language “en...
Aug 10, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-10-26 Pook-Emu Bee links are back today as we start the new work-week. 1 – Persona 30th Anniversary Paper Fragrances Feature Designs Announced (Orpheus Joshua for Noisy Pixel. August 9, 2026.) I have bee...
Aug 10, 2026 from Hackaday Functional Jumping Pokéball from an Ancient Pokémon World When playing a game about Pocket Monsters, there’s one thing you can’t avoid using no matter what you do, and that’s a pokeball. Whether it’s a new or old game, …read more
Aug 10, 2026 from It's FOSS CachyOS is Laying Groundwork for The Server Edition The CLI installer's new experimental profiles target the upcoming Server Edition, while Shelly gets a full rewrite.
Aug 10, 2026 from Hackaday The Physics of Keeping Thermal Power Stations Cool Recently thermal power stations have been in the news quite a bit, mostly in the context of them being throttled back or shut down due to the river water used …read more
Aug 10, 2026 from Fatbobman's Blog Apple Intelligence Has Passed Chinese Government Review and Is Coming to China - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #148 In July, Apple Intelligence appeared on the latest list of generative AI services registered with China’s Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC). Then, just two days ago, Apple confirmed that Ali...
Aug 10, 2026 from It's FOSS openJiuwen’s Agent Swarm: When AI Agents Finally Work as a Team openJiuwen is an open-source AI agent platform to help developers build production-grade AI agents and enable large-scale multi-agent collaboration.
Aug 10, 2026 from Hackaday Triggering Lightning with a Rocket Lightning, despite being a common and readily-detected phenomenon, is nevertheless difficult to study. One reason is the difficulty of predicting when and where lightning will strike; tall structur...
Aug 10, 2026 from It's FOSS AI Can No Longer Rampage Through Rust's Code Repo The new rust-lang/rust policy allows AI-written code only under a narrow, disclosed experiment, and doesn't apply to the wider Rust project.
Aug 10, 2026 from Jordi Villar 2026W31 Elevators — The counterintuitive result is that destination dispatch, the kiosk where you punch your floor before boarding, performs worse than plain up/down buttons. Locking in the assignment earl...
