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Last Chance: 2025 Hackaday Supercon Still Wants You!

Good news, procrastinators! Today was going to be the last day to throw your hat in the ring for a slot to talk at Supercon in November, but we’re extending …read more

Back To The Future, 40 Years Old, Looks Like The Past

Great Scott! If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you’re gonna see some serious shit. — Doc Brown On this day, forty years ago, …read more

FLOSS Weekly Episode 839: I Want To Get Paid Twice

This week Jonathan chats with benny Vasquez about AlmaLinux! Why is AlmaLinux the choice for slightly older hardware? What is the deal with RISC-V? And how does EPEL fit in? …read more

South Korea Brought High-Rise Fire Escape Solutions To The Masses

When a fire breaks out in a high-rise building, conventional wisdom is that stairwells are the only way out. Lifts are verboten in such scenarios, while sheer height typically prevents …read more

Why The Latest Linux Kernel Won’t Run On Your 486 And 586 Anymore

Some time ago, Linus Torvalds made a throwaway comment that sent ripples through the Linux world. Was it perhaps time to abandon support for the now-ancient Intel 486? Developers had …read more

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  • AI Is Only Coming For Fun Jobs

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    By Bryan Cockfield | July 5, 2025

    In the past few years, what marketers and venture capital firms term “artificial intelligence” but is more often an advanced predictive text model of some sort has started taking people’s …read more

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    Software Defined Retro ROM Makes 8-bit Easy

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    By Tyler August | July 5, 2025

    Like the rest of us, 8-bit hardware is not getting any newer, and failed ROMs are just a fact of life. Of course you can’t call up Commadore corporation for …read more

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    A Feast Of 1970s Gaming History, And An 8080 Arcade Board

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    By Jenny List | July 5, 2025

    Sometimes a write-up of a piece of retrocomputing hardware goes way beyond the hardware itself and into the industry that spawned it, and thus it is with [OldVCR]’s resurrection of …read more

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    Track Your GitHub Activity With This E-Ink Display

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    By Jenny List | July 5, 2025

    If you’re a regular GitHub user you’ll be familiar with the website’s graphical calendar display of activity as a grid. For some of you it will show a hive of …read more

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    CIS-4 Is A Monkish Clock Inside A Ceiling Lamp

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    By Tyler August | July 4, 2025

    It’s always clock time at Hackaday, and this time we have an interesting hack of a clock by [danjovic]– the CIS4, a Cistercian digital clock. The Cistertians, in case you …read more

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    Running An Entire PS1 Emulator In A DS Cartridge

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    By Ian Bos | July 4, 2025

    Gaming on a Nintendo DS can bring back great memories of long car trips from the past. But looking back, we remember wishing to play more than the DS could …read more

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    Video Cable Becomes Transmitter With TEMPEST-LoRa

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    By Tyler August | July 4, 2025

    EFI from cables is something every ham loves to hate. What if you modulated, that, though, using an ordinary cable as an antenna? If you used something ubiquitous like a …read more

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