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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Deep Fission Wants To Put Nuclear Reactors Deep Underground

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By Maya Posch | November 23, 2025

Today’s pressurized water reactors (PWRs) are marvels of nuclear fission technology that enable gigawatt-scale power stations in a very compact space. Though they are extremely safe, with only the TMI-2 …read more
Saving A Rental Ebike From The Landfill

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By Bryan Cockfield | November 23, 2025

One of the hardest things about owning a classic car is finding replacement parts. Especially if the car is particularly old or rare, or if the parent company is now …read more
DIY Polyphonic Synth Sings In 8-Part Harmony

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By Tyler August | November 22, 2025

There’s just something about an analog synthesizer. You’d think that for electronic music, digital sampling would have totally taken over by now, but that’s really not true. The world of …read more
Assistive Radio Tells You What You Can’t See

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By Al Williams | November 22, 2025

We think of radios as audio devices, but for people who are visually impaired, it can be difficult to tell which channel you are listening to at any given time. …read more
DIY TENS Machine Is A Pain-Relief PCB

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By Tyler August | November 22, 2025

Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) is one of those things that sounds like it must be woo when you first hear of it. “A trickle of current that can deal …read more
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

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