Picking a CRC
You send a file, but how do you know it arrived intact? In other words, how do you know that it didn’t get cut off, garbled, or changed somehow? Simplisti…
Wooden Piano Keys Hold Your Less-Wooden, Not-Piano Keys
There are many ways to deal with keys: a bowl next to the entryway, a junk drawer, or you can just leave them in your pockets and hope you remember to check on …
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…
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 …
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 p…
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 …
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…
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 o…
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, i…
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 …