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This Week In Security: Cloudflare Wasn’t DNS, BADAUDIO, And Not A Vuln

You may have noticed that large pieces of the Internet were down on Tuesday. It was a problem at Cloudflare, and for once, it wasn’t DNS. This time it was …read more

So Long, Firefox, Part One

It’s likely that Hackaday readers have among them a greater than average number of people who can name one special thing they did on September 23rd, 2002. On that day …read more

Mating Cycles: Engineering Connectors To Last

If you take a look around you, chances are pretty good that within a few seconds, your eyes will fall on some kind of electrical connector. In this day and …read more

FLOSS Weekly Episode 855: Get In The Minecart, Loser!

This week Jonathan chats with Kevin, Colin, and Curtis about Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead! It’s a rogue-like post-apocalyptic survival game that you can play in the terminal, over SSH if …read more

Hackers Can’t Spend A Penny

We aren’t here to praise the penny, but rather, to bury it. The penny, and its counterparts, have been vanishing all around the world as the cost of minting one …read more

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  • Building An Acoustic Radiometer

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    By Aaron Beckendorf | November 22, 2025

    A Crookes radiometer, despite what many explanations claim, does not work because of radiation pressure. When light strikes the vanes inside the near-vacuum chamber, it heats the vanes, which then …read more

  • RavynOS: Open Source MacOS With Same BSD Pedigree

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    By Maya Posch | November 22, 2025

    That MacOS (formerly OS X) has BSD roots is a well-known fact, with its predecessor NeXTSTEP and its XNU kernel derived from 4.3BSD. Subsequent releases of OS X/MacOS then proceeded …read more

  • Why Do We Love Weird Old Tech?

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    By Elliot Williams | November 22, 2025

    One of our newer writers, [Tyler August], recently wrote a love letter to plasma TV technology. Sitting between the ubiquitous LCD and the vanishing CRT, the plasma TV had its …read more

  • Baby’s First Synth Was Daddy’s First Project

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    By Kristina Panos | November 22, 2025

    We absolutely adore inspired labor-of-love tales such as this one. [Alastair] wanted to build a synth for his daughter’s third birthday in spite of having no prior hardware knowledge. It …read more

  • It’s Hard To Make A (Good) Oscillator

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    By Jenny List | November 22, 2025

    There’s more to making an oscillator than meets the eye, and [lcamtuf] is here with a good primer on the subject. It starts with the old joke that if you …read more

  • Microsoft Open Sources Zork I, II And III

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    By Maya Posch | November 21, 2025

    The history of the game Zork is a long and winding one, starting with MUDs and kin on university mainframes – where students entertained themselves in between their studies – …read more

  • How To Use That Slide Rule

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    By Al Williams | November 21, 2025

    You have that slide rule in the back of the closet. Maybe it was from your college days. Maybe it was your Dad’s. Honestly. Do you know how to use …read more

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