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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Make Your Own Tires For RC Cars

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By Lewin Day | December 16, 2025

You can buy a wide range of RC car tires off the shelf. Still, sometimes it can be hard to find exactly what you’re looking for, particularly if you want …read more
Memory At The Speed Of Light

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By Al Williams | December 16, 2025

Look inside a science fiction computer, and you’ll probably see tubes and cubes that emit light. Of course, it’s for effect, but the truth is, people do think light computing …read more
Laser Cutter Plus CYMK Spraypaint Equals Full-Color Prints

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By Tyler August | December 16, 2025

This is one of those fun hacks that come about from finding a product and going “I wonder if I could…” — in this case, artist/YouTuber [Wesley Treat] found out …read more
Building A Granular Sampler Synth

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By Lewin Day | December 16, 2025

Synthesizing sounds from scratch is all well and good, you just use a bit of maths. However, the latest build from [Daisy] eschews such boring concepts as additive or subtractive …read more
Debugging The AMD GPU

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By Al Williams | December 16, 2025

Although Robert F. Kennedy gets the credit for popularizing it, George Bernard Shaw said: “Some men see things as they are and say, ‘Why?’ I dream of things that never …read more
Keebin’ With Kristina: The One With The Curious Keyboards

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By Kristina Panos | December 16, 2025

I love first builds! They say so much about a person, because you see what’s paramount to them in a keyboard. You can almost feel their frustration at other keyboards …read more
Virtual Pet Responds To WiFi

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By Lewin Day | December 16, 2025

When the Tamagotchi first launched all those decades ago, it took the world by storm. It was just a bunch of simple animations on a monochrome LCD, but it had …read more

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