Jun 14, 2026 from Hackaday Robot Chess but Each Piece is a Small Robot We have seen a number of self-playing chess boards over the years, but the general theme has been standard chess pieces moved by either an internal electromagnet or an external …read more
Jun 14, 2026 from The Emu Café Social AI Slop About Medieval London I was linked to a site called Fake History Hunter a few weeks ago. The author, a former historical consultant, uses her site to debunk fake history in media. In AI review: Time Witnessed, she takes...
Jun 14, 2026 from The Universe of Discourse Update: Here I am at the Sagrada Família (Previously) In 2003 I visited Barcelona and spent all day wandering around the mighty Basilica de la Sagrada Família, the architectural masterpiece of Antoni Gaudí. It had been under construction ...
Jun 13, 2026 from Hackaday Bambuddy Says Bye to Bambu Lab Cloud Services If you have a Bambu Labs printer and aren’t keen to send your files to Bambu’s servers with each print job, then check out Bambuddy, an open-source, self-hosted, cloud-free central …read more
Jun 13, 2026 from The Autodidacts How to fit Qwen 3.6 35B A3B into 16GB of VRAM, & run it with Llama.cpp on an RTX 3080 The belly hangs over the belt, but it fits
Jun 13, 2026 from Hackaday Converting a Scanning Electron Microscope Into a TEM is Surprisingly Easy Although both a SEM and a TEM are electron microscopes, their working principles and images are very different. Whereas an SEM uses secondary electrons ejected after bombarding a sample’s surface …...
Jun 13, 2026 from Thejesh GN Back to Basics: Build Your Own LLM from Scratch I did a workshop titled “Back to Basics: Build Your Own LLM from Scratch”, which kind of included some basic theory on how a transformer works, and then building a very small LLM. The idea was to d...
Jun 13, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 13 June 2026 Out Of Ink Edition Top Story Welcome to Earth Delos D. Harriman, our new-minted trillionaire! (Tech Crunch) May I say how delightful it is to watch the wailing of the worst people on the planet at ...
Jun 13, 2026 from Hackaday Custom Watch is on the Case We were excited to see [Z0hn]’s project about 3D printing a custom watch from scratch — both because it was an exciting idea, and because the pictures looked great. While …read more
Jun 13, 2026 from Hackaday Patterns Everywhere I studied physics in college, and I’m always surprised how fundamental some of the concepts are. Take waves for example. You really wouldn’t expect the same underlying concept to be …read more
Jun 13, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Anthropic disables all Fable 5 and Mythos 5 model access after Trump blocks foreign access Anthropic has suspended all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 after the Trump administration, through the U.S. Commerce Department, invoked national security export controls on June 12. The order bloc...
Jun 13, 2026 from GadgeteerZA How one GPL lawsuit accidentally created the homelab router that changed networking forever “No company sets out to make a product that exceeds its purpose and becomes a legend. In some cases when it happens, the company might even regret it. I recall a few NVIDIA GPUs, like the 8800GT an...
Jun 13, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Meta is adding an AI assistant and a new desktop version to its Edits video editing app Meta has previewed new updates for Edits, its video editing app, with the main additions being an upcoming AI assistant and a desktop version. The AI assistant, currently being tested with selected...
Jun 13, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Mastodon 4.6 RC adds Collections, full API endpoints, and ActivityPub upgrades Mastodon has released the first release candidate for version 4.6, adding Collections, profile updates, API changes, and several Fediverse protocol improvements ahead of the final release. Collecti...
Jun 13, 2026 from Hackaday Behold a 60 Hz Refresh Rate E-ink Monitor E-ink displays have a number of advantages over other display types, but their refresh rate isn’t one of them. But what exactly makes them slow? According to [Wenting Zhang], it’s …read more
Jun 13, 2026 from Hackaday GentleOS, A Simple OS For Your Old PC Every month or so we bring you a Jenny’s Daily Drivers article, in which we share with you an esoteric OS and try to use it for the everyday work of …read more
Jun 13, 2026 from Hackaday Deeply optimized MSX emulation on ESP32-S3 with VGA output The ESP32-S3 is by many metrics quite the powerful little computer, which has led to it being used even for things like emulating retro consoles and similar. Here [Ivan Svarkovsky]’s …read more
Jun 13, 2026 from It's FOSS There is a New X11 Server, Written in Rust, With the Help of AI Yserver is a vibe-coded project that ditches legacy code to work cleanly on modern Linux systems.
Jun 13, 2026 from Hackaday Homebrew Macropad Looks Good We are fans of macro pads and especially homebrew ones. The Apna Dost project by [np_vishwakarma] ticks most of our boxes. In addition to a few buttons, there’s an encoder, …read more
