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The Helicopter with Radioactive Blades(hackaday.com)

183 points by zdw 1 month ago | 55 comments

Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt?(hackaday.com)

182 points by gumby 2 months ago | 141 comments

Seeing the world in radio waves with the QuadRF(hackaday.com)

25 points by ikbdsk 4 months ago | 0 comments

Why the smart home bubble popped(hackaday.com)

22 points by lxm 5 months ago | 35 comments

Solar Balconies Take Europe by Storm(hackaday.com)

43 points by lxm 6 months ago | 16 comments

How Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source(hackaday.com)

64 points by msolujic 8 months ago | 38 comments

Why Samsung Phones Are Failing Emergency Calls in Australia(hackaday.com)

31 points by mivok 11 months ago | 7 comments

What happened to running what you wanted on your own machine?(hackaday.com)

316 points by marbartolome 1 year ago | 197 comments

The death of industrial design and the era of dull electronics(hackaday.com)

134 points by CharlesW 1 year ago | 79 comments

Vertical Solar Panels Are Out Standing(hackaday.com)

185 points by lxm 1 year ago | 141 comments

Building an Assembly Line for Origami Pigeons(hackaday.com)

3 points by sohkamyung 1 year ago | 0 comments

High-Stakes Fox Hunting: The FCC’s Radio Intelligence Division In World War II(hackaday.com)

4 points by voxadam 1 year ago | 0 comments

High Frequency Food: Better Cutting with Ultrasonics(hackaday.com)

33 points by zdw 1 year ago | 7 comments

A TV with Contrast You Haven't Seen for Years(hackaday.com)

9 points by Tomte 1 year ago | 0 comments

56k modems relied on digital trunk lines(hackaday.com)

130 points by beardyw 1 year ago | 102 comments

Bambu Connect's Authentication X.509 Certificate and Private Key Extracted(hackaday.com)

28 points by nejsjsjsbsb 1 year ago | 10 comments

All-Band Receiver Lets You Listen to All the Radio at Once(hackaday.com)

13 points by darkswordreams 1 year ago | 7 comments

Soldering the Tek way(hackaday.com)

173 points by zdw 1 year ago | 81 comments

Subchannel Stations: The Radio Broadcasts You Didn't Know Were There(hackaday.com)

5 points by pkaeding 1 year ago | 1 comments

Scratch and Sniff Stickers and the Gas Panic of '87(hackaday.com)

42 points by jlund-molfese 1 year ago | 2 comments

Mend it Mark gets suspect copyright strike for £25k audio amp repair(hackaday.com)

245 points by Workaccount2 1 year ago | 101 comments

3D Space Can Be Tiled with Corner-Free Shapes(hackaday.com)

9 points by Tomte 1 year ago | 4 comments

With Core One, Prusa's Open Source Hardware Dream Dies(hackaday.com)

83 points by iancmceachern 1 year ago | 48 comments

Tiny Drones Do Distributed Mapping(hackaday.com)

41 points by steamingpenis 2 years ago | 2 comments

Man-in-the-Middle PCB Unlocks HP Ink Cartridges(hackaday.com)

45 points by kidbomb 2 years ago | 9 comments

Show HN: iFixit created a new USB-C, repairable soldering system(hackaday.com)

869 points by kwiens 2 years ago | 376 comments

Hackaday review of iFixit's FixHub, a repairable 100W USB-C soldering iron paired with a smart battery power station.

The worsening Raspberry Pi RP2350 E9 erratum situation(hackaday.com)

81 points by irdc 2 years ago | 14 comments

IRC Will Never Die (2021)(hackaday.com)

45 points by desdo88 2 years ago | 37 comments

A Two-Stroke Engine Made from Scratch Using Basic Hardware Store Parts(hackaday.com)

104 points by rmason 2 years ago | 41 comments

The Commodore 900: A Look at a Rare Prototype(hackaday.com)

11 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 0 comments

Linksys Velop Routers Caught Sending WiFi Creds in the Clear(hackaday.com)

12 points by sharpshadow 2 years ago | 1 comments

Wrap Your Keyboard with a Vacuum Former(hackaday.com)

7 points by rcarmo 2 years ago | 0 comments

The NSA Is Defeated by a 1950s Tape Recorder. Can You Help Them?(hackaday.com)

65 points by rolph 2 years ago | 16 comments

Embedded Python: MicroPython Is Amazing(hackaday.com)

15 points by matt_trentini 2 years ago | 5 comments

Model Rocket Nails Vertical Landing After Three-Year Effort(hackaday.com)

88 points by rolph 2 years ago | 22 comments

Shapeways Files for Bankruptcy(hackaday.com)

24 points by Luc 2 years ago | 3 comments

USB and the Myth of 500 Milliamps(hackaday.com)

29 points by jnord 2 years ago | 3 comments

Paul Allen's Computer Museum to Be Auctioned(hackaday.com)

35 points by RobertJaTomsons 2 years ago | 3 comments

TerraPower's Natrium: A Fast Neutron Reactor with Built-In Grid Level Storage(hackaday.com)

30 points by mhb 2 years ago | 12 comments

MicroPython 1.23 Brings Custom USB Devices, OpenAMP, Much More(hackaday.com)

17 points by rcarmo 2 years ago | 1 comments

Intel's anti-upgrade tricks defeated with Kapton tape(hackaday.com)

242 points by sharpshadow 2 years ago | 111 comments

Peeking underground with giant flying antennas(hackaday.com)

95 points by sharpshadow 2 years ago | 25 comments

Comparing Desoldering Tools(hackaday.com)

24 points by geerlingguy 2 years ago | 13 comments

The roller ship was not an effective way to cross the high seas(hackaday.com)

89 points by Stratoscope 2 years ago | 25 comments

Review: The New Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen(hackaday.com)

5 points by rcarmo 2 years ago | 0 comments

The 1970s Computer: A Slice of Computing(hackaday.com)

8 points by MrBuddyCasino 2 years ago | 0 comments

Insurance Buys the Wheelchair, but Not the App to Run It(hackaday.com)

23 points by mdp2021 2 years ago | 8 comments

GPS Antenna Mods Make Starlink Terminal Immune to Jammers(hackaday.com)

64 points by jamapy 2 years ago | 47 comments

Ethernet: The Basics(hackaday.com)

93 points by electroagenda 2 years ago | 37 comments

Human-Interfacing Devices: Packing for the Descriptor Heist(hackaday.com)

25 points by rcarmo 2 years ago | 0 comments

Check Out These Self-Soldering Sleeves from World War II(hackaday.com)

171 points by rcarmo 2 years ago | 56 comments

A Mouse Becomes a Camera(hackaday.com)

18 points by kristianpaul 2 years ago | 4 comments

Harvesting electricity from high-voltage transmission lines using fences(hackaday.com)

92 points by beardyw 2 years ago | 111 comments

C Is the Greenest Programming Language(hackaday.com)

26 points by jespa007 2 years ago | 30 comments

DB Cooper Case Could Close Soon Thanks to Particle Evidence(hackaday.com)

6 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 2 comments

Haier Europe Eases Off on Legal Threat and Seeks Dialogue(hackaday.com)

95 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 51 comments

Garden Light Turned Mesh Network Node(hackaday.com)

49 points by lxm 2 years ago | 4 comments

Haier Threatens Legal Action Against Home Assistant Plugin Developer(hackaday.com)

99 points by nickthegreek 2 years ago | 47 comments

Solar Chimneys: Viable Energy Solution or a Lot of Hot Air?(hackaday.com)

30 points by lxm 2 years ago | 33 comments

Haiku OS: The Open Source BeOS You Can Daily Drive in 2024(hackaday.com)

109 points by rcarmo 2 years ago | 82 comments

A Rail Cart for the Space Conscious Passenger (2022)(hackaday.com)

24 points by axiomdata316 2 years ago | 13 comments

802.11ah Wi-Fi HaLOW: The 1 Kilometer WiFi Standard(hackaday.com)

185 points by rcarmo 2 years ago | 42 comments

Displays We Love Hacking: SPI and I2C(hackaday.com)

52 points by rcarmo 2 years ago | 6 comments

A medieval Gothic monastery built using CAD / CAM(hackaday.com)

152 points by magda_wang 2 years ago | 56 comments

Voice-over-LTE: The Reason Why Your Phone May Soon Stop Working(hackaday.com)

36 points by bookstore-romeo 2 years ago | 28 comments

Harvard SETI Project Helps ID Mystery Sound(hackaday.com)

8 points by wglb 2 years ago | 0 comments

Zork Zcode Interpreters Appear Out of Nowhere(hackaday.com)

37 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 10 comments

All About Cats, and What Ethernet Classifications Mean(hackaday.com)

93 points by rcarmo 3 years ago | 59 comments

Trouble Brewing for RISC-V as Issue of Technology Transfer Is Questioned(hackaday.com)

62 points by rcarmo 3 years ago | 37 comments

Perfect Dark: Recompiled(hackaday.com)

36 points by rcarmo 3 years ago | 11 comments

Canada ends official time signal(hackaday.com)

132 points by reaperducer 3 years ago | 64 comments

A Raspberry Pi 5 is better than two Pi 4S(hackaday.com)

211 points by MrBuddyCasino 3 years ago | 142 comments

Zilog's Forgotten Operating System: Z80-Rio(hackaday.com)

36 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 1 comments

Forrest Mims and RadioShack (2017)(hackaday.com)

68 points by keiferski 3 years ago | 19 comments

Find That Obscure Function with This Interactive Map of the Linux Kernel(hackaday.com)

50 points by warrenm 3 years ago | 1 comments

Making Dry Ice at home is just as hard as it sounds(hackaday.com)

38 points by sogen 3 years ago | 34 comments

The Rise and (Eventual) Fall of the SIM Card(hackaday.com)

46 points by lxm 3 years ago | 58 comments

All About USB-C: Example Circuits(hackaday.com)

88 points by nevir 3 years ago | 14 comments

Copper Be Gone: The Chemistry Behind PCB Etching(hackaday.com)

50 points by rolph 3 years ago | 7 comments

What does it take to make your own integrated circuits at home?(hackaday.com)

90 points by wslh 3 years ago | 12 comments

An Open Source Mobile Phone Based on the ESP32(hackaday.com)

33 points by rcarmo 3 years ago | 6 comments

New motherboard improves old CRT television(hackaday.com)

159 points by rbanffy 3 years ago | 58 comments

We Ruined Status LEDs; Here’s Why That Needs to Change(hackaday.com)

42 points by rex_lupi 3 years ago | 34 comments

Review: Beepy a Palm-Sized Linux Hacking Playground(hackaday.com)

111 points by teleforce 3 years ago | 40 comments

DisplayPort: Taming the Altmode(hackaday.com)

91 points by rcarmo 3 years ago | 49 comments

Pixel Pump: Open-source vacuum pickup tool(hackaday.com)

115 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 23 comments

An open-source, free circuit simulator(hackaday.com)

140 points by jerryjerryjerry 3 years ago | 33 comments

Google Nest Mini Gutted and Rebuilt to Run Custom Agents(hackaday.com)

48 points by jklinger410 3 years ago | 2 comments

TV Typewriter Remembered(hackaday.com)

66 points by beardyw 3 years ago | 10 comments

Displayport: A Better Video Interface(hackaday.com)

729 points by zdw 3 years ago | 366 comments

Hackaday article by Arya Voronova explaining the DisplayPort video interface and why it is better than alternatives like HDMI.

Quetzal-1 Satellite Goes Open Source(hackaday.com)

132 points by jerryjerryjerry 3 years ago | 8 comments

Rocky strikes back at Red Hat(hackaday.com)

40 points by okasaki 3 years ago | 40 comments

Repairing a $25K HP Workstation from 1981 to Run Pac-Man(hackaday.com)

64 points by redbell 3 years ago | 12 comments

Iron nitrides: powerful magnets without the rare earth elements(hackaday.com)

54 points by milar 3 years ago | 6 comments

Add $4 WiFi Logging to IKEA’s $12 Air Quality Sensor (Wemos and Vindriktning)(hackaday.com)

108 points by ck2 3 years ago | 29 comments

Bye Bye Ubuntu, Hello Manjaro. How Did We Get Here?(hackaday.com)

97 points by dcminter 3 years ago | 158 comments

Farewell American Computer Magazines(hackaday.com)

110 points by keiferski 3 years ago | 91 comments

Printed circuit board that solders itself(hackaday.com)

18 points by hansc 3 years ago | 2 comments

Dear Ubuntu(hackaday.com)

43 points by Alupis 3 years ago | 37 comments

FET: The Friendly Efficient Transistor(hackaday.com)

46 points by l8rlump 3 years ago | 12 comments

Patent Spat Leaves DJI Owing Textron $279M(hackaday.com)

28 points by voxadam 3 years ago | 12 comments

Heroes of Hardware Revolution: Bob Widlar (2014)(hackaday.com)

56 points by jnord 3 years ago | 6 comments

The Modern WWW, Or: Where Do We Want to Go from Here?(hackaday.com)

25 points by tambourine_man 3 years ago | 9 comments

Automated shusher keeps conference loudmouths in line(hackaday.com)

29 points by gumby 3 years ago | 22 comments

Dyson hair dryer becomes jet engine(hackaday.com)

59 points by lxm 3 years ago | 12 comments

Russia’s New Mystery Shortwave Station(hackaday.com)

96 points by lxm 3 years ago | 9 comments

Tennis Balls Serve as Decent Bicycle Tires That Don’t Easily Puncture(hackaday.com)

56 points by rolph 3 years ago | 36 comments

It's difficult to read an audiophile guide as an analogue engineer(hackaday.com)

73 points by zdw 3 years ago | 109 comments