2026-10-27
ESP32 Rotary Display Makes Ideal Timer
We’re big fans of pushing hardware into situations it wasn’t designed for here at Hackaday, but sometimes you’ve got to appreciate a nicely designed gadget doing more or less exactly...
9 Spooky 'Far Side' Comics That Are Perfect to Read Before Halloween
Gary Larson's comic strip The Far Sdie had plenty of horror-themed entries. Here are nine that feature classic monsters
Elvis rightsholders sue Anthropic for stealing songs and leaving them in Heartbreak Hotel
They want a little less chatbot conversation, and a whole lot more royalty action
The Oldest Windows App To Still Run On WIndows 11
In the open source world we are used to software being compiled from source for our particular distro, so while in a few cases an ancient release may still be...
8 Most Entertaining Sci-Fi Books of the 21st Century That Are Impossible to Put Down
Get some laughs with psychic cats, friendly aliens, and snarky cyborgs
This gaming monitor goes ultra high-tech to deliver an incredible gaming experience
Why the Aorus Elite FO27Q28G should be your next gaming monitor
San Francisco Rationalist Dinner
Join us for a San Francisco rationalist dinner in Metreon's food court. First timers welcome. We will talk about AI safety, interesting blog posts, and whatever rationality or related topics...
IBM admits mainframes need to be modernized and will use AI to do the job
Promises to build ‘IBM Z Atlas’ tool that will tidy up messy big iron and enable AIOps
Normalize Talking About Succession Plans
Talking to an employee about succession is tricky. It can feel like you’re questioning their value while they’re still on the job. But avoiding the subject can put your organization...
Major 'Avatar: Seven Havens’ Korra Reveal May Be Hiding the Truth About the Cataclysm
Did Korra destroy the world? An Avatar: Seven Havens flashback reveals her attacking Republic City, but the truth may be more complicated.
A dead man's switch for scheming AIs
IntroductionIf you are reading this post, chances are you believe there is a nonzero probability that humanity will eventually face existential risk from Artificial Intelligence. In fact, there have already...
Paddock
Computers and sandboxes for your agents Discussion | Link
A big case study of propensity entanglement
This is a link-post for our new paper "Predicting how propensities generalize out-of-distribution", which started as a SPAR project. We select 24 propensities, elicit each through 4 different methods, and...
Phantom Blade Zero release time in your time zone
Here you find Phantom Blade Zero release date and release time in different time zones, and all the pre-order bonuses you can receive.
In Praise Of A Legendary Power Transistor
There are some devices which achieve electronic immortality, it’s likely that you have used a few of them yourself. The 555 timer of course, or the 741 op-amp. [ElectronicsNotes] is...
Measuring agent capabilities on open-ended AI R&D tasks
TL;DR. We measure agent capabilities on four long and open-ended research tasks. Frontier models have been improving with an overall doubling time of around one year since 2024 (based on...
Have LLMs passed the Turing test?
It's very strange that LLMs have (plausibly) solved a millennium problem before a single one has unambiguously solved the Turing test, i.e. learned to write 'duplicitously', or convincingly in other...
24 Years Later, Nintendo's Most Divisive Mario Game Is a Miracle on Switch 2
Super Mario Sunshine was beloved at launch but grew to become one of the most divisive Mario games ever. Here's why it's worth playing in 2026.
Japanese virtual desktop cloud hacked so hard it asks to be banned
CEO admits service used for foreign exchange trading had holes company was slow to fix
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