4+ hour, 48+ min ago  (39+ words) Putting hidden data in places where few expect it can be a fun hobby or even a professional career. In the case of [Tim Wehrle] it's just the former. His most recent project in this area uses a favico. .....

22+ hour, 5+ min ago  (34+ words) Blender is one of the poster children for Open Source Software-- proof that something hacked together by enthusiasts could grow to rival the big boys in 3 D modeling, animation and rendering after it w. .....

22+ hour, 14+ min ago  (38+ words) The Bernoulli disk was a wild piece of 1980s hardware. Take a big floppy. Spin the platter at 1500 RPM just a micron or so from a read head. The airflow around that rapidly-spinning disk actually stab. .....

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (34+ words) With the advent of affordable 2. 5 Gbit, 5 Gbit, and 10 Gbit consumer networking gear, more and more people are taking advantage of these higher networking speeds, with [This Does Not Compute] having u. .....

1+ day, 16+ hour ago  (36+ words) By now we're all used to single board computers such as the Raspberry Pi Zero, but it's likely we've all been frustrated at times by the number of support components required to use one. This becomes. .....

1+ day, 16+ hour ago  (255+ words) How LLMs Can Be Assisted To Do Arithmetic Correctly Hackaday One of the most hilarious things you can do with an LLM-based chatbot is to ask it to do calculations. If it's a well-written chatbot frontend, it can detect requests…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago  (217+ words) Hackaday How fast can you count to a million? It would probably take you a while A computer could certainly do it faster Indeed, the The National Museum of Computing figured it could actually prove to be a simple but…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago  (38+ words) One of the most hilarious things you can do with an LLM-based chatbot is to ask it to do calculations. If it's a well-written chatbot frontend, it can detect requests for arithmetic - like summing 1 a. .....

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (178+ words) Hackaday The Epson HX-20 is sometimes referred to as an early laptop computer It's a little odd in its form factor, and in its storage, relying on a microcassette drive to store data It can be problematic to keep these…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (36+ words) It's never been easier to get a printed circuit board made. In fact, almost every electronics video out on the internet will incessantly remind you of this fact now. But making a custom PCB wasn't alw. .....