Sep 21, 2026 from Hackaday Searching for Dark Matter with a Levitating Magnet Much of science is performed through inference, with the readings on instruments, a flash of light in heavy water, or the results of parsing through terabytes of sensor data after …read more
Sep 21, 2026 from It's FOSS Ubuntu Would Rather Kill Your Apps Before It Takes Down The Session Ubuntu 26.10 is shipping a change that should keep the desktop standing when your memory runs out.
Sep 21, 2026 from kmcd.dev gRPC vs REST Is the Wrong Question The traditional advice is REST for public APIs and gRPC for microservices. But is this a false dichotomy?
Sep 21, 2026 from Kev Quirk Do you use :visited on links? I've always made the :visited attribute for hyperlinks look the same as links that haven't been visited, and it seems that it's the default behaviour across the web. I've never really given it much...
Sep 21, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Inoreader update adds narration tracking to text-to-speech Inoreader has introduced narration tracking for text-to-speech, visually highlighting the line currently being read aloud. The marker moves with playback so readers can follow an article and return...
Sep 21, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Wine 11.18 released with enhanced kernel driver support and C headers compability fixes Wine 11.18 has arrived as the latest bi-weekly development release of the open-source compatibility layer that enables Windows applications to run on Linux, macOS, and other Unix-like platforms. Th...
Sep 21, 2026 from Hackaday The Sinclair Spectrum Gets A Desktop GUI Of the popular 1980s 8-bit computers, it’s fair to say that Sinclair’s ZX Spectrum punched above its weight. Sir Clive’s love of squeezing more functionality out of less hardware meant …read more
Sep 21, 2026 from Jordi Villar 2026W37 the senior engineer death spiral — The pattern he names is one I’ve watched happen, you take on the ambitious thing, go quiet for two or three weeks convinced that working harder will close the gap...
Sep 21, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Zettlr 4.8 brings admonition support, overhauled full-text search and updated translations Zettlr, the popular open-source Markdown editor for writers and researchers, has released version 4.8, introducing a suite of new features and significant behavioral changes. Following nearly three...
Sep 21, 2026 from Hackaday Making a Copper-Oxide Photodetector from Scratch Photodetectors come in a wide variety of constructions and materials, with the Cu2O-based photodetector that [Mad Scientist Creations] demonstrates in a recent video being a good example of a photo...
Sep 21, 2026 from Hackaday Hackaday Links: September 20, 2026 Some sad news to start this week off — after 52 years in business, Sherline has announced they are winding down their manufacturing operations. By the end of October they …read more
Sep 21, 2026 from Michael Lynch Refactoring English: Month 21 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developer...
Sep 21, 2026 from Ploum.net Fuir le numérique ou bien le reconquérir ? Fuir le numérique ou bien le reconquérir ? Le numérique est-il intrinsèquement mauvais ? Comme le souligne Sandra, le minimalisme numérique ne vient pas du fait que le numérique soit mauvais en soi...
Sep 20, 2026 from Hackaday Reviving TEMPEST Attacks with an Injected Signal TEMPEST attacks are often the most effective way to break air-gapped security: rather than directly accessing a computer, the attacker records the system’s unintended radio emissions and uses them ...
Sep 20, 2026 from Weekly Robotics Newsletter | Go, Robots! Weekly Robotics #377 Weekly Robotics 377: Robot policies vs safety (a must read!), how to win a DARPA heavy lift challenge, streamlining a SpaceX Raptor engine, a robot hand that crawls, and more!
Sep 20, 2026 from Hackaday Ski Lift Removes Mice from Chicken Coop Getting rid of rodents like squirrels, mice, or groundhogs is a lot like digging a hole on the beach. No matter how much you remove, it’ll always fill back in. …read more
Sep 20, 2026 from GadgeteerZA Grist is an open source self-hosted spreadsheet with a database hiding underneath “Grist is a relational spreadsheet-database app that I can host on my own server. When I first tried it, it felt familiar because the basic idea is still the same: I get rows, columns, cells, and t...
Sep 20, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 20 September 2026 Whatever Happened To B Cells Edition Top Story AI safety conversations have gotten unbelievable. (Tech Crunch) They always were. They are, without exception, "the dog ate my homework" stories. "Did...
Sep 20, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 09-20-26 I have not had much time to post new articles (long or short lately), but let us get the last full week of September off to a good start with a new edition of the Pook-Emu Bee. 1 | Linux 7.3 Adds S...
Sep 20, 2026 from Hackaday World War I Coded Message Appears Cracked, Finally When you think of wartime cryptography, you probably think of World War II and Enigma, although there were other famous codes used during that war. But in fact, there have …read more
