How Laser Headlights Died In The US - Automotive headlights started out burning acetylene, before regular electric light... - https://hackaday.com/2025/08/18/how-laser-headlights-died-in-the-us/ #hackadaycolumns #laserheadlights #headlights #regulation #mischacks #phosphor #fmvss

The Terminal Demise of Consumer Electronics Through Subscription Services - Open any consumer electronics catalog from around the 1980s to the early 2000s and... - https://hackaday.com/2025/08/18/the-terminal-demise-of-consumer-electronics-through-subscription-services/ #consumerelectronics #hackadaycolumns #originalart #interest #history

Hackaday Links: August 17, 2025 - We’ve studiously avoided any mention of our latest interstellar visitor, 3I/Atlas,... - https://hackaday.com/2025/08/17/hackaday-links-august-17-2025/ #continentaldivide #hackadaycolumns #hackadaylinks #interstellar #itsnotaliens #factorytour #datacenter #perhelion #starbucks #3i/atlas #aviloeb #cooling #drought #sequoia #aliens #coffee #office #rivers #toyota #tundra #comet #rto

Metric, Imperial, and Flexibility - Al Williams wrote up a seemingly innocent piece on a couple of rules-of-thumb to g... - https://hackaday.com/2025/08/16/metric-imperial-and-flexibility/ #hackadaycolumns #religiouswar #newsletter #imperial #metric #rants #units

Hackaday Podcast Episode 333: Nightmare Whiffletrees, 18650 Safety, and a Telephone Twofer - This week, Hackaday’s Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met up over the tubes to ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/08/15/hackaday-podcast-episode-333-nightmare-whiffletrees-18650-safety-and-a-telephone-twofer/ #hackadaycolumns #hackadaypodcast #podcasts

This Week in Security: The AI Hacker, FortMajeure, and Project Zero - One of the hot topics currently is using LLMs for security research. Poor quality ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/08/15/this-week-in-security-the-ai-hacker-fortmajeure-and-project-zero/ #thisweekinsecurity #hackadaycolumns #securityhacks #projectzero #darpa #ai

For Americans Only: Estimating Celsius and Other Mental Metrics - I know many computer languages, but I’ve struggled all my life to learn a second h... - https://hackaday.com/2025/08/14/for-americans-only-estimating-celsius-and-other-mental-metrics/ #hackadaycolumns #mentalmath #metric #rants

FLOSS Weekly Episode 842: Will the Real JQ Please Stand Up - We’re back! This week Jonathan chats with Mattias Wadman and Michael Farber about ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/08/13/floss-weekly-episode-842-will-the-real-jq-please-stand-up/ #hackadaycolumns #flossweekly #podcasts #json #jq

The World’s First Podcaster? - When do you think the first podcast occurred? Did you guess in the 1890s? That’s n... - https://hackaday.com/2025/08/13/the-worlds-first-podcaster/ #hackadaycolumns #phonehacks #telephone #budapest #history

Design Review: LattePanda Mu NAS Carrier - It is a good day for design review! Today’s board is the MuBook, a Lattepanda Mu S... - https://hackaday.com/2025/08/12/design-review-lattepanda-mu-nas-carrier/ #hackadaycolumns #projectreview #pcbdesign #pcblayout #pcbhacks

Neon Bulbs? They’re a Gas! - When you think of neon, you might think of neon signs or the tenth element, a nobl... - https://hackaday.com/2025/08/11/neon-bulbs-theyre-a-gas/ #hackadaycolumns #classichacks #highvoltage #neonbulb #ne-2

Hackaday Links: August 10, 2025 - We lost a true legend this week with the passing of NASA astronaut Jim Lovell at t... - https://hackaday.com/2025/08/10/hackaday-links-august-10-2025/ #civilengineering #popularmechanics #hackadaycolumns #hackadaylinks #astronaut #reservoir #magazine #obituary #archive #asphalt #slider #apollo #gemini #hope #nasa #stem #con #dam

A Love Letter to Prototype Zero - An old friend of mine at my hackerspace introduced me to the concept of Prototype ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/08/09/a-love-letter-to-prototype-zero/ #hackadaycolumns #prototyping #creativity #newsletter #rants

Hackaday Podcast Episode 332: 5 Axes are Better than 3, Hacking Your Behavior, and the Man Who Made Models - Elliot and Dan got together this week for a review of the week’s hacking literatur... - https://hackaday.com/2025/08/08/hackaday-podcast-episode-332-5-axes-are-better-than-3-hacking-your-behavior-and-the-man-who-made-models/ #hackadaycolumns #hackadaypodcast #podcasts

This Week in Security: Perplexity v Cloudflare, GreedyBear, and HashiCorp - The Internet is fighting over whether robots.txt applies to AI agents. It all star... - https://hackaday.com/2025/08/08/this-week-in-security-perplexity-v-cloudflare-greedybear-and-hashicorp/ #thisweekinsecurity #hackadaycolumns #securityhacks #greedybear #hashicorp #nvidia #ai

The 64-Degree Egg, And Other Delicious Variants - Many of us have boiled an egg at some point or another in our lives. The conventio... - https://hackaday.com/2025/08/07/the-64-degree-egg-and-other-delicious-variants/ #hackadaycolumns #cookinghacks #sous-vide #cooking #eggs #egg

Jenny’s Daily Drivers: FreeDOS 1.4 - When I was a student, I was a diehard Commodore Amiga user, having upgraded to an ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/08/06/jennys-daily-drivers-freedos-1-4/ #hackadaycolumns #computerhacks #softwarehacks #freedos #16bit #dos

Get Your Tickets For Supercon 2025 Now! - The wait is over — once this post hits the front page, ticket sales for the 2025 H... - https://hackaday.com/2025/08/05/get-your-tickets-for-supercon-2025-now/ #2025hackadaysuperconference #hackadaycolumns #halloween #tickets #retro #cons #news

A Gentle Introduction to Fortran - Originally known as FORTRAN, but written in lower case since the 1990s with Fortra... - https://hackaday.com/2025/08/04/a-gentle-introduction-to-fortran/ #highperformancecomputing #softwaredevelopment #hackadaycolumns #fortran

Hackaday Links: August 3, 2025 - When all else fails, there’s amateur radio — and handwritten notes. Both ham radio... - https://hackaday.com/2025/08/03/hackaday-links-august-3-2025/ #hackadaycolumns #invasivespecies #searchandrescue #hackadaylinks #earthquake #dontpanic #robobunny #hamradio #captcha #myanmar #pythons #slider #openai #rabbit #agent #human #bot