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Taking delivery of a new vehicle from a dealership is an emotional mixed bag. On the one hand, you’ve had to endure the sales rep’s hunger to close the deal, …read more

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Great Scott! If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you’re gonna see some serious shit. — Doc Brown On this day, forty years ago, …read more

FLOSS Weekly Episode 839: I Want To Get Paid Twice

This week Jonathan chats with benny Vasquez about AlmaLinux! Why is AlmaLinux the choice for slightly older hardware? What is the deal with RISC-V? And how does EPEL fit in? …read more

South Korea Brought High-Rise Fire Escape Solutions To The Masses

When a fire breaks out in a high-rise building, conventional wisdom is that stairwells are the only way out. Lifts are verboten in such scenarios, while sheer height typically prevents …read more

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The Hackaday Summer Reading List: No AI Involvement, Guaranteed

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By Jenny List | July 7, 2025

If you have any empathy at all for those of us in the journalistic profession, have some pity for the poor editor at the Chicago Sun-Times, who let through an …read more
Splice CAD: Cable Harness Design Tool

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By Matt Varian | July 7, 2025

Cable harness design is a critical yet often overlooked aspect of electronics design, just as essential as PCB design. While numerous software options exist for PCB design, cable harness design …read more
This Week In Security: Anthropic, Coinbase, And Oops Hunting

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By Jonathan Bennett | July 7, 2025

Anthropic has had an eventful couple weeks, and we have two separate write-ups to cover. The first is a vulnerability in the Antropic MCP Inspector, CVE-2025-49596. We’ve talked a bit …read more
160-core RISC V Board Is The M.2 CoProcessor You Didn’t Know You Needed

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By Tyler August | July 7, 2025

Aside from GPUs, you don’t hear much about co-processors these days. [bitluni] perhaps missed those days, because he found a way to squeeze a 160 core RISC V supercluster onto …read more
Building An X-Ray Crystallography Machine

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By Aaron Beckendorf | July 7, 2025

X-ray crystallography, like mass spectroscopy and nuclear spectroscopy, is an extremely useful material characterization technique that is unfortunately hard for amateurs to perform. The physical operation isn’t too complicated, however, …read more
Building A Potato-based GLaDOS As An Introduction To AI

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By Aaron Beckendorf | July 6, 2025

Although not nearly as intimidating as her ceiling-mounted hanging arm body, GLaDOS spent a significant portion of the Portal 2 game in a stripped-down computer powered by a potato battery. …read more
Fastener Fusion: Automating The Art Of Counting

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By Matt Varian | July 6, 2025

Counting objects is an ideal task for automation, and when focusing on a single type of object, there are many effective solutions. But what if you need to count hundreds …read more

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