Hackaday Links: December 14, 2025

Fix stuff, earn big awards? Maybe, if this idea for repair bounties takes off. The group is dubbed the FULU Foundation, for “Freedom from Unethical Limitations on Users,” and was …read more

Jenny’s Daily Drivers: Haiku R1/beta5

Back in the mid 1990s, the release of Microsoft’s Windows 95 operating system cemented the Redmond software company’s dominance over most of the desktop operating system space. Apple were still …read more

Creating User-Friendly Installers Across Operating Systems

After you have written the code for some awesome application, you of course want other people to be able to use it. Although simply directing them to the source code …read more

FLOSS Weekly Episode 858: YottaDB: Sometimes The Solution Is Bigger Servers

This week Jonathan chats with K. S. Bhaskar about YottaDB. This very high performance database has some unique tricks! How does YottaDB run across multiple processes without a daemon? Why …read more

Why LLMs Are Less Intelligent Than Crows

The basic concept of human intelligence entails self-awareness alongside the ability to reason and apply logic to one’s actions and daily life. Despite the very fuzzy definition of ‘human intelligence‘, …read more

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The Quirky Peripherals In Medical PC Setups

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By Lewin Day | December 18, 2025

Modern hospitals use a lot of computers. Architecturally speaking, they’re pretty typical machines—running the same CPUs and operating systems as any other PCs out there. However, they do tend to …read more
Designing A CPU For Native BASIC

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By Aaron Beckendorf | December 17, 2025

Over the years there have been a few CPUs designed to directly run a high-level programming language, the most common approach being to build a physical manifestation of a portable …read more
Germanium Semiconductor Made Superconductor By Gallium Doping

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By John Elliot V | December 17, 2025

Over on ScienceDaily we learn that an international team of scientists have turned a common semiconductor germanium into a superconductor. Researchers have been able to make the semiconductor germanium superconductive …read more
Underwater Jetpack Is Almost Practical

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By Tyler August | December 17, 2025

The jet pack is one of those pre-war sci-fi dreams that the cold light of rational consideration reveals to be a terrible idea. Who wants to cook their legs with …read more
Building A Flying Blended Wing Body Aircraft Prototype

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By Maya Posch | December 17, 2025

Anyone with an inkling of interest in super-sized remote control aircraft probably has at least seen some of the mind-blowing projects that [Ramy RC] has worked on over the years, with …read more
FLOSS Weekly Episode 859: OpenShot: Simple And Fast

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By Jonathan Bennett | December 17, 2025

This week Jonathan chats with Jonathan Thomas about OpenShot, the cross-platform video editor that aims to be simple to use, without sacrificing functionality. We did the video edit with OpenShot …read more
The PediSedate: A Winning Combination Of Video Games And Anesthesia

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By Lewin Day | December 17, 2025

Once upon a time, surgery was done on patients who were fully conscious and awake. As you might imagine, this was a nasty experience for all involved, and particularly the …read more

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