Your Computer Memory Is A Lie

When you first learn to program, memory seems pretty straightforward. You have a bunch of bytes, each with an address. If you want to read or write something, you specify …read more

The Weirdest Video Games Were Hacks

We were looking into the marvelous recent project by [Throaty Mumbo] to recreate and reimagine the forgotten world of VHS-tape-based video games. Wait, what? Yes, back in the day, when …read more

Hackaday Podcast Episode 390: DOOM, Cranium Stuff, And Odd OpenSCAD Opportunities

This week, Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met a few minutes later than usual, and somehow defeated a buzz together with the power of will before settling into the news, …read more

This Week In Security: New Spectre Attacks, Crushing Quantity Of Linux Vulns, Google Gets Too Much AI, And Hacking Lawnmowers

Just-in-time, or JIT, compilation could be considered a fundamental backbone of modern computing. JIT compilation turns scripting languages like JavaScript or intermediary binary forms like Web Assembly into native code …read more

Lead A Discord Exodus With A Matrix Server

The Internet, and large groups of people in general, tend to have a remarkably short collective memory. Whether it’s the nature of algorithms or the people themselves to always be …read more

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ESP-SDR Can Now Transmit

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By Elliot Williams | October 13, 2026

Well, that was fast! Last week, we reported on two apparently simultaneous hacks using the 2.4 GHz radio inside many ESP32 variants that enabled raw access to the radio samples, …read more
Using A Waffle To Check The Health Of Your Wii U’s NAND Flash

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By Maya Posch | October 13, 2026

Game consoles tend to have a weak spot or two that will take certain units out sooner than they would due to normal parts aging. In the case of the …read more
Counting The PET Bottles Needed To Make 1 Kg Of Printer Filament

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By Maya Posch | October 13, 2026

In countries where PET bottles do not get slapped with an additional fee that induces you to return it for recycling and said fee back, the resulting piles of discarded …read more
The FPGA Chronicles: Ready To Probe

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By Al Williams | October 13, 2026

In the last few installments, we looked at using the Tang Nano 20K with both the GOWIN tools and some open-source tools. The open-source tools certainly had the advantage of …read more
A Modern Browser For The PlayStation Portable

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By Jenny List | October 13, 2026

The Sony PlayStation Portable, better known as the PSP, is now over two decades old. In its day it was an impressive handheld gaming machine, not least because of the …read more
Open Firmware Fixes Dead Onkyo AV Receivers

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By Tom Nardi | October 13, 2026

If you’ve been reading Hackaday for any length of time, you’ll know we love seeing hackers replacing the stock firmware on their devices with open source alternatives. Usually this is …read more
Emulating A Floppy Drive By Emulating The Drive Itself

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By Jenny List | October 12, 2026

The Commodore 1541 is famously the floppy drive for the Commodore 64 series of 8-bit computers, and can be found with relative ease. Not so well known is its 1551 …read more

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