2026 Hackaday Supercon: Call For Proposals

We are absolutely stoked to announce that the Hackaday Superconference is taking place this year November 6th through 8th in glorious Pasadena California, and we want to see you there! …read more

The Death Of Physical Media And The Real Challenges To Software Archiving

Along with the many displays of outrage, gnashing of teeth and other displays of profound grief at the recent news that Sony will no longer manufacture physical game discs come …read more

A Brief History Of The Crazy Old 7-Segment Display

How old is the seven-segment display? Surely it is a product of the 1970s. After all, calculators started showing up, and the height of junior high humor was plugging 7734 …read more

FLOSS Weekly Episode 874: Really, We Do PDFs

This week Jonathan chats with Andrea Gallo about RISC-V! What does it mean for RISC-V to be an Open ISA? Where is RISC-V popping up, and what’s the new frontier? …read more

Linux Fu: The Local Phonebook

I’ll admit it: I miss the simplicity of /etc/hosts. There was something elegant about it. You wanted laserprinter to mean 192.168.1.40, so you opened a text file and wrote: 192.168.1.40 …read more

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Industrial GPU Adapted For The Desktop

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By Bryan Cockfield | July 22, 2026

As technologies change and adapt, we’re often left with seemingly useless junk that has nowhere to go. Certainly anyone still sitting on a pile of floppy disks feels this way …read more
V Formation Flying Of Birds Is Explained By A Minimal Wake–Vortex Model

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By Maya Posch | July 22, 2026

Although it’s commonly suspected that migratory birds fly in a ‘V’ formation due to this saving energy for the birds in the slipstream, understanding the exact aerodynamics behind this and …read more
An LLM In The Kitchen

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By Navarre Bartz | July 22, 2026

Have you ever been looking up a recipe for something new and been stymied by the directions being a wall of text, especially to find that one detail right when …read more
FLOSS Weekly Episode 876: There Is No Money Fairy

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By Jonathan Bennett | July 22, 2026

This week Jonathan chats with Michael Meeks about Collabora! What’s the origin story in this consulting company, why do they have an outstanding office suite, and where is the world …read more
The Need For Speed: Internet Speed Measurement (or DIY?)

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By Al Williams | July 22, 2026

Car enthusiasts want to know how quickly they can make a quarter mile. Weightlifters are forever trying to add one more plate to the bar. Internet denizens have their own …read more
Dress Up Your YubiKey With This Web-Based Tool

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By Tom Nardi | July 22, 2026

The combination of hardware required to make use of this project is specific enough that we imagine only a relatively limited number of readers will actually be able to try …read more
Compile Here, Run Everywhere: Crosstool-Ng

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By Al Williams | July 22, 2026

In a recent post, I mentioned that I wanted to build some tools for a stripped-down Linux running on a 3D printer with a MIPS CPU. I had two options: …read more

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