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German Fireball’s 15 Minutes Of Fame

Sunday night, around 7:00 PM local time, a bright fireball streaked across the western German sky, exploded, and rained chunks of space rock down on the region around Koblenz. One …read more

The “Tin Blimp” Was A Neither Tin Nor A Blimp: The Detroit ZMC-2 Story

After all the crashing and burning of Imperial Germany’s Zeppelins in the later part of WWI – once the Brits managed to build interceptors that could hit their lofty altitude, …read more

Ask Hackaday: What Will An LLM Be Good For In The Plateau Of Productivity?

A friend of mine has been a software developer for most of the last five decades, and has worked with everything from 1960s mainframes to the machines of today. She …read more

Secure Communication, Buried In A News App

Cryptography is a funny thing. Supposedly, if you do the right kind of maths to a message, you can send it off to somebody else, and as long as they’re …read more

Hackaday Links: March 8, 2026

As pointed out by Tom’s Hardware, it’s been 26 years since the introduction of the gigahertz desktop CPU. AMD beat Intel to the punch by dropping the 1 GHz Athlon …read more

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  • Making A Bladeless Tesla Turbine Generator In Lego

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    By Maya Posch | March 13, 2026

    The Tesla turbine is a bladeless centripetal-flow turbine invented by Nikola Tesla in 1913, using the boundary-layer effect rather than having a stream of gases or a fluid impinge on …read more

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    No More Paperweight: This Vintage Brick Phone Is Back Online

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    By Matt Varian | March 13, 2026

    Remember those brick cellphones in the 1990s? They were comically large by today’s standards. These phones used the 1G network to communicate and, as such, have been unusable for decades …read more

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    Hackaday Podcast Episode 361: Hackaday Podcast Mailbag, A Phone Is Not A Computer, 3D Printing History Is New Again

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    By Tom Nardi | March 13, 2026

    Join Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi as they cover their favorite hacks and stories from the week. The episode kicks off with some updates about Hackaday Europe and …read more

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    Running A PC Off AA Cells With Buck Converters Really Boosts Performance

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    By Maya Posch | March 13, 2026

    After the previous attempt of running a PC off AA cells got a lot of comments, [ScuffedBits] decided to do the scientifically responsible thing and re-ran the experiment with all …read more

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    This Week In Security: Plenty Of Patches, Replacing Old Gear, And Phrack Calls For Papers

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    By Mike Kershaw | March 13, 2026

    When Friday the Thirteenth and Patch Tuesday happen on the same week, we’re surely in for a good time. Anyone who maintains any sort of Microsoft ecosystem knows by now …read more

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    OS/2 Never Went Away. Its Successor Has Received An Update

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    By Jenny List | March 13, 2026

    ArcaOS is an operating system you might not have heard of, but you will recognize it when we tell you that it’s the direct descendant of IBM’s OS/2. It’s just …read more

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    Perfecting The Shape-Changing Fruit Bowl

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    By Tyler August | March 13, 2026

    Fruit bowls have an unavoidable annoyance– not flies and rotten fruit, those would be avoidable if your diet was better. No, it’s that the bowl is never the right size. …read more

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