This Week In Security: Claude Gets Hacking, Hotel WiFi, And NPM Compromised Again

kMaybe feeling left out from the questionable hype train of “Our AI models can’t be trusted”, Anthropic has released reports that their Claude model has “reached the Internet” and accessed …read more

Calculus-Free PID (Almost) In A Spreadsheet

PID controllers are everywhere. They regulate temperature, motor speed, power supplies, positioning systems, process equipment, and probably a dozen things within arm’s reach of you right now. They’re also frequently …read more

FitzRoy’s Glass: Victorian Weather Marvel Or Glorified Thermometer?

Everyone talks about the weather. This is doubly true for sailors, where bad weather could mean a very bad day. So it isn’t surprising that navies around the world have …read more

FLOSS Weekly Episode 878: A Tool With Opinions

This week Jonathan chats with Jonathan Pallant about embedded Rust! Learn about the growing Rust driver library, the different ways to build a Rust stack on an embedded device, and …read more

Know Your Food: Our Daily Bread

It’s time to return to our no-punches-pulled look at food manufacture, and this time we’re looking at the humble loaf of bread. As before, we’re approaching the subject with a …read more

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Functional Jumping Pokéball From An Ancient Pokémon World

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By Ian Bos | August 10, 2026

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
The Physics Of Keeping Thermal Power Stations Cool

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By Maya Posch | August 10, 2026

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
Triggering Lightning With A Rocket

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By Aaron Beckendorf | August 10, 2026

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 structures do attract …read more
Even On The Red Planet, Hexagons Are The Bestagons

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By Tyler August | August 10, 2026

Though their pure Platonic Forms may only exist in the world of ideas, certain regular shapes can’t help but keep falling out of natural processes– case in point, the six-sided …read more
Creating A Supersonic Trebuchet

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By Maya Posch | August 9, 2026

As awesome as trebuchets are, the fact that medieval engineers didn’t create versions capable of launching supersonic projectiles is a bit of a bummer. Fortunately it’s possible to correct this …read more
Retrotechtacular: A View Of The Moon From 1964

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By Al Williams | August 9, 2026

If you didn’t live through it, it is hard to understand how excited the general public was about the race for the moon. You can capture some of it by …read more
Hackaday Links: August 9, 2026

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By Tom Nardi | August 9, 2026

Bad news for anyone who was hoping for some relief from the memory shortage — Digitimes is reporting that the production capacity of major players such as Samsung, Micron, and …read more

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