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German Fireball’s 15 Minutes Of Fame

Sunday night, around 7:00 PM local time, a bright fireball streaked across the western German sky, exploded, and rained chunks of space rock down on the region around Koblenz. One …read more

The “Tin Blimp” Was A Neither Tin Nor A Blimp: The Detroit ZMC-2 Story

After all the crashing and burning of Imperial Germany’s Zeppelins in the later part of WWI – once the Brits managed to build interceptors that could hit their lofty altitude, …read more

Ask Hackaday: What Will An LLM Be Good For In The Plateau Of Productivity?

A friend of mine has been a software developer for most of the last five decades, and has worked with everything from 1960s mainframes to the machines of today. She …read more

Secure Communication, Buried In A News App

Cryptography is a funny thing. Supposedly, if you do the right kind of maths to a message, you can send it off to somebody else, and as long as they’re …read more

Hackaday Links: March 8, 2026

As pointed out by Tom’s Hardware, it’s been 26 years since the introduction of the gigahertz desktop CPU. AMD beat Intel to the punch by dropping the 1 GHz Athlon …read more

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  • Testing A Soviet 1000 Volt Insulation Tester From 1985

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    By Maya Posch | March 17, 2026

    Although the term ‘Iron Curtain’ from the Cold War brings to mind something like the Berlin Wall and its forbidding No Man’s Land, there was still active trade between the …read more

  • Preparing To Fire Up A 90-Year-Old Boiler After Half A Century

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    By Maya Posch | March 17, 2026

    Continuing the restoration of the #1 Lancashire boiler at the Claymills Pumping Station in the UK, the volunteers are putting on the final touches after previously passing the boiler inspection. …read more

  • Hacking The System In A Moral Panic: We Need To Talk

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    By Jenny List | March 17, 2026

    It seems that for as long as there have been readily available 3D printers, there have been moral panics about their being used to print firearms. The latest surrounds a …read more

  • From 8086 To Z80: Building A NASM-Inspired SDK For 8-Bit Retro Computing

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    By Maya Posch | March 17, 2026

    Assembler syntax is a touchy subject, with many a flamewar having raged over e.g. Intel vs AT&T style syntax. Thus when [Humberto Costa] recently acquired an MSX system for some …read more

  • Fictional Moon: Reality TV And SciFi Don’t Mix

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    By Al Williams | March 17, 2026

    It is a safe bet that nearly all Hackaday readers like to at least imagine what it would be like to build and live in an orbital station, on the …read more

  • FullSpectrum Is Like HueForge For 3D Models, But Bring Your Toolchanger

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    By Tyler August | March 17, 2026

    Full-color 3D printing is something of a holy grail, if nothing else, just because of how much it impresses the normies. We’ve seen a lot of multi-material units in the …read more

  • Polyphonic Tunes On The Sharp PC-E500

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    By Lewin Day | March 17, 2026

    If you’re a diehard fan of the chiptune scene, you’ve probably heard endless beautiful compositions on the Nintendo Game Boy, Commodore 64, and a few phat FM tracks from Segas …read more

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