Hackaday Links: September 27, 2026
Hackadayby Al Williams10d ago
It isn’t quite hailing frequencies open, but researchers from Harvard claim they’ve picked up a radio signal directly from a nearby exoplanet.
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Hackadayby Bryan Cockfield10d ago
When flying over the United States, Australia, and a few other vast and relatively empty parts of the world, strange circular formations can be spotted.
Going On A Tangent With The Intel 8087’s Hybrid CORDIC Algorithm
Hackadayby Maya Posch10d ago
Continuing their reverse-engineering of Intel’s 8087 FPU, [Ken Shirriff] and friends took a look at one of the trigonometric functions, specifically FPTAN.
Ways To Empirically Identify A Magnet’s Polarity
Hackadayby Donald Papp11d ago
Every magnet has a north and a south pole, but which is which? Sometimes it matters. If a product one builds features a magnetic closure or other part, the polarity of those magnets should be...
The Least Annoying Of All Evils
Hackadayby Elliot Williams12d ago
If you missed the hubbub this week, it was discovered that the Raspberry Pi Foundation added code in the firmware that locks the boot process up if non-original RAM chips are detected onboard.
Abusing SQL To Play DOOM
Hackadayby Bryan Cockfield12d ago
Most laypeople who encounter SQL think of it purely as a tool for managing large datasets. While that is certainly what it was designed for, SQL is still a programming language at its core.
The Low-Level Waste Dumps In The Atlantic Have Become Ecosystems
Hackadayby Maya Posch12d ago
Recently French and international researchers took a look at the state of the thousands of barrels of radioactive waste that were dumped into the Atlantic Ocean between 1950 and 1990, trying to...
Reviving The PoE++ Feature On A Ubiquiti Switch
Hackadayby Maya Posch12d ago
Recently [The Parallel Port] was asked to take a look at repairing the PoE++ feature on a Ubiquiti switch that otherwise worked fine.
This Week In Security: FBI Gets Hacked, Muse Vulnerable To ClickFix, Popular Rust Developers At Risk, Attacking The RP2350, And New Attacks Against RSA
Hackadayby Mike Kershaw13d ago
The prolific ShinyHunters group has announced it used a zero-day vulnerability in Oracle PeopleSoft to exploit the FBI jobs website and gain access to the AWS GovCloud instances and dump 2 TB of...
UDP Broadcasting And The Brave New World Of IPv6
Hackadayby Maya Posch14d ago
After recently working our way through UDP broadcasting and network subnetting all in the comfort zone of IPv4, it’s time to address the elephant in the room, the one wearing a bright neon ‘IPv6’...
After Decades, NASA May Finally Replace Mars Relays
Hackadayby Tom Nardi14d ago
We’ve yet to find any definitive evidence that there’s biological life on present-day Mars, but to say it’s a dead planet isn’t exactly accurate.
Reconstructing Device Firmware From SPI Reads
Hackadayby Tom Nardi14d ago
If you wanted to extract the firmware from a mystery device, you might pull the flash chip out of it and toss it into a reader.
A Mini’s Infotainment System And The Joys Of Aftermarket Car Parts
Hackadayby Maya Posch15d ago
Although [Arkandas] disclaims any interest in being a ‘car guy’, this is somewhat ironic in light of the sheer amount of modding he has performed on a range of cars over the years, a recent...
2026 Hackaday Supercon: Announcing Our First Round Of Speakers
Hackadayby Elliot Williams15d ago
Supercon is the Ultimate Hardware Conference™ and you need to be there November 6-8 in Pasadena, California!
How Pixar Stopped Worrying And Learned To Love Linux
Hackadayby Tyler August15d ago
If you weren’t already aware, it will probably come as no surprise to hear that the pioneering computer-animation studio Pixar built its early workflow on Silicon Graphics SGI workstations.
Dumpster-dived Window A/C Becomes Ground-Source Heat Pump
Hackadayby Tyler August16d ago
Heat pumps are great, because they pump heat around, and we often don’t want heat where it is. Need it somewhere else? Pump it! It’s great.
Raspberry Pi RAM Restrictions No Big Deal, Frankly
Hackadayby Arya Voronova16d ago
Hacking on Raspberry Pi board internals is one of my favourite topics. I know a bunch of obscure things about these cute little boards.
The First Floating Nuclear Power Station
Hackadayby Zoe Skyforest17d ago
Nuclear power really hit its stride in the 1950s. In the post-war period, there was a rush to develop peaceful uses for splitting the atom, beyond its application as a weapon of war.
DIY Router On X86 E-Waste: OpenWrt And OPNsense
Hackadayby Maya Posch17d ago
In previous installments of this series we looked at how creating a DIY router using an e-waste-level PC has changed over the years, before attempting to boot OpenWrt for x86 on it.
Hackaday Links: September 20, 2026
Hackadayby Tom Nardi17d ago
Some sad news to start this week off — after 52 years in business, Sherline has announced they are winding down their manufacturing operations.