Hackaday Links: November 9, 2025

We’re always a wee bit suspicious about articles that announce some sort of “World’s first” accomplishment. With a couple of hundred thousand years of history, most of which wasn’t recorded, …read more

This Week In Security: Vibecoding, Router Banning, And Remote Dynamic Dependencies

Vibecoding. What could possible go wrong? That’s what [Kevin Joensen] of Baldur wondered, and to find out he asked Anthropic’s Sonnet 4.5 to build a secure login with Two Factor …read more

The Time Of Year For Things That Go Bump In The Night

Each year around the end of October we feature plenty of Halloween-related projects, usually involving plastic skeletons and LED lights, or other fun tech for decorations to amuse kids. It’s …read more

This Reactor Is On Fire! Literally…

If I mention nuclear reactor accidents, you’d probably think of Three Mile Island, Fukushima, or maybe Chernobyl (or, now, Chornobyl). But there have been others that, for whatever reason, aren’t …read more

Expert Systems: The Dawn Of AI

We’ll be honest. If you had told us a few decades ago we’d teach computers to do what we want, it would work some of the time, and you wouldn’t …read more

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2025 Component Abuse Challenge: The Slip Ring In Your Parts Bin

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By Jenny List | November 11, 2025

If you’re familiar with electrical slip rings as found in motors and the like you’ll know them as robust assemblies using carefully chosen alloys and sintered brushes, able to take …read more
Gene Therapy Aims To Slow Huntington’s Disease To A Crawl

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By Lewin Day | November 11, 2025

Despite the best efforts of modern medicine, Huntington’s disease is a condition that still comes with a tragic prognosis. Primarily an inherited disease, its main symptoms concern degeneration of the …read more
Real-Time BART In A Box Smaller Than Your Coffee Mug

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By Matt Varian | November 11, 2025

Ever get to the train station on time, find your platform, and then stare at the board showing your train is 20 minutes late? Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) may …read more
Moving From Windows To FreeBSD As The Linux Chaos Alternative

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By Maya Posch | November 11, 2025

Back in the innocent days of Windows 98 SE, I nearly switched to Linux on account of how satisfied I was with my Windows experience. This started with the Year …read more
Nest Thermostat: Now 100% Less Evil

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By Al Williams | November 11, 2025

If you have a Nest thermostat of the first or second generation, you probably noticed it recently became dumber. Google decided to pull the plug on the servers that operate …read more
Another Thermal Printer, Conquered

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By Jenny List | November 11, 2025

The arrival of cheap thermal printer mechanisms over the last few years has led to a burst of printer hacking in our community, and we’re sure many of you will …read more
Programming The 6581 Sound Interface Device (SID) With The 6502

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By John Elliot V | November 10, 2025

Over on YouTube, [Ben Eater] pursues that classic 8-bit sound. In this video, [Ben] integrates the MOS Technology 6581 Sound Interface Device (SID) with his homegrown 6502. The 6581 SID …read more

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