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The Y2K Bug in BSD 2.11 that Survived 2000 ift.tt/L8WgmJC

The Y2K Bug In BSD 2.11 That Survived 2000

A year before the arrival of the brand-new 21st millennium, the Year 2000 Bug was predicted to grind modern society to a halt and ensure that at the dawn of the year 2001, there’d be nothing …

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IKEA Storage Box Just Happens To Make Great Printer Cover ift.tt/ONIJmiA

IKEA Storage Box Just Happens To Make Great Printer Cover

The Snapmaker U1 3D printer is an impressive machine for the price, but [Beaver Works] found the optional factory-offered top cover a wee bit expensive for his tastes. The solution? 3D print a fixt…

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Building Your Own X-Ray Detector Screen ift.tt/a4EqV2M

Building Your Own X-Ray Detector Screen

Fluoroscopy is probably the best-known method of X-ray imaging: an X-ray beam passes through the subject to be imaged, and the transmitted X-rays illuminate a phosphor screen. Dense objects, such a…

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Hackaday Links: June 14, 2026 ift.tt/0BSPTj3

Hackaday Links: June 14, 2026

Times are tough out there, and many are starting to feel the pressure at the grocery store checkout line or the gas pump. But whenever you start to worry about affording life’s necessities, t…

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Bavarian Court Tells Gemini It Can’t Be a Real Boy Until It Tells the Truth ift.tt/HtigO4N

Bavarian Court Tells Gemini It Can’t Be A Real Boy Until It Tells The Truth

Does anyone like Google’s AI summaries? If so, they weren’t on the Judge’s bench in a specific Bavarian courtroom recently, where it was ruled that yes, Google is liable for the h…

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Why not yserver? It’s Xserver, but Rust-y. ift.tt/z5xTINX

Why Not Yserver? It’s Xserver, But Rust-y.

If you’re not into Wayland as a display manager, it seems like your options are slowly dwindling. Xorg isn’t exactly a hotbed of activity, and the one fork everyone knows about is best …

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OpenCAL: Computed Axial Lithographic 3D Printing For Everyone ift.tt/0KX7dpE

OpenCAL: Computed Axial Lithographic 3D Printing For Everyone

Computed Axial Lithographic printing gets even closer to the Star Trek replicator fantasy than any other 3D printer we’ve seen: there’s a machine, it glows with a mysterious bluish ligh…

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Is a CS Degree DOA thanks to LLMs? IEEE Says TBD. ift.tt/EUnINaM

Is A CS Degree DOA Thanks To LLMs? IEEE Says TBD.

The ongoing AI apocalypse is hitting prices for high-end components from RAM to GPUs to storage hard, which is bad enough when you have a job to try and budget for those now-pricier items — b…

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Double the VRAM of an RTX 3070 ift.tt/VpuGwi9

Double The VRAM Of An RTX 3070

Modern games are quite often limited by the amount of volatile memory available to the GPU. Games can require many gigabytes of data during the rasterization process. So the obvious solution for be…

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The Pacemaker Patch ift.tt/RpF7cIH

The Pacemaker Patch

A pacemaker is implanted to send signals that regulate a patient’s heartbeat, and to do that, you need power. That means they require battery changes, and when the device in question happens …

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Robot Chess but Each Piece is a Small Robot ift.tt/cwEi5dG

Robot Chess But Each Piece Is A Small Robot

We have seen a number of self-playing chess boards over the years, but the general theme has been standard chess pieces moved by either an internal electromagnet or an external robotic arm. This is…

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Bambuddy Says Bye to Bambu Lab Cloud Services ift.tt/reRsbFc

Bambuddy Says Bye To Bambu Lab Cloud Services

If you have a Bambu Labs printer and aren’t keen to send your files to Bambu’s servers with each print job, then check out Bambuddy, an open-source, self-hosted, cloud-free central comm…

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Converting a Scanning Electron Microscope Into a TEM is Surprisingly Easy ift.tt/f495ur8

Converting A Scanning Electron Microscope Into A TEM Is Surprisingly Easy

Although both a SEM and a TEM are electron microscopes, their working principles and images are very different. Whereas an SEM uses secondary electrons ejected after bombarding a sample’s sur…

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Custom Watch is on the Case ift.tt/jN0PKfl

Custom Watch Is On The Case

We were excited to see [Z0hn]’s project about 3D printing a custom watch from scratch — both because it was an exciting idea, and because the pictures looked great. While we still liked…

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Patterns Everywhere ift.tt/Fx8GXLI

Patterns Everywhere

I studied physics in college, and I’m always surprised how fundamental some of the concepts are. Take waves for example. You really wouldn’t expect the same underlying concept to be at work on surf…

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Behold a 60 Hz Refresh Rate E-ink Monitor ift.tt/iKf26j3

Behold A 60 Hz Refresh Rate E-ink Monitor

E-ink displays have a number of advantages over other display types, but their refresh rate isn’t one of them. But what exactly makes them slow? According to [Wenting Zhang], it’s not a…

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GentleOS, A Simple OS For Your Old PC ift.tt/BkgSjUO

GentleOS, A Simple OS For Your Old PC

Every month or so we bring you a Jenny’s Daily Drivers article, in which we share with you an esoteric OS and try to use it for the everyday work of a Hackaday scribe. As part of that ongoing…

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Deeply optimized MSX emulation on ESP32-S3 with VGA output ift.tt/ZobdOhX

Deeply Optimized MSX Emulation On ESP32-S3 With VGA Output

The ESP32-S3 is by many metrics quite the powerful little computer, which has led to it being used even for things like emulating retro consoles and similar. Here [Ivan Svarkovsky]’s S3-MSX-P…

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Homebrew Macropad Looks Good ift.tt/lD6IfH5

Homebrew Macropad Looks Good

We are fans of macro pads and especially homebrew ones. The Apna Dost project by [np_vishwakarma] ticks most of our boxes. In addition to a few buttons, there’s an encoder, an OLED display, a…

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The Air Position Indicator for the B-29 ift.tt/H1SEk9U

The Air Position Indicator For The B-29

When you think of a computer, you probably don’t think of a tube full of motors and mechanics. However, as [Our Own Devices] shows, the Bendix AN5841 API Computer, an air position indicator c…

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