2026-06-17
Ask Hackaday: What Ever Happened to the Hero Nerd?
Knowing absolutely nothing about you other than the fact that you’re currently reading Hackaday, I can predict with a high degree of certainty that we’re both fond of at least...
3 questions with Toy Story 5’s Jeff Bergman, the new voice of Mr. Potato Head
An interview with voice actor Jeff Bergman, who is taking over for the late Don Rickles in Toy Story 5
The Old Product Research Playbook Is Broken. Here Are the 5 Shifts Replacing It.
Product research has changed fast. What used to be a phase before launch is now a continuous practice that shapes how products get built.
Andrea Pitzer writes about the forced labor happening in...
Andrea Pitzer writes about the forced labor happening in Trump’s immigrant concentration camps and its roots in chattel slavery in the US and in Nazi & Soviet work camps.
Alignement pretraining could backfire
Epistemic status: speculative, but I think the mechanism is plausible.There has been recent interest in generating synthetic documents to upsample examples of aligned AI during LLM pretraining. See, for instance,...
Cisco adds another SD-WAN box to max-severity bug advisory
Updated at the time? No sweat. Check those logs, though
Propane
Automatic customer context for product teams and agents Discussion | Link
Homebrew 6.0 released with new security mechanism, Linux sandbox and more
Homebrew was "less vulnerable 10 years ago than npm is today," project lead tells us
Toward a Kantian refutation of Agent Foundations
This post is a Cunningham's law draft, less than 50% finished, in some parts mere notes. Consider a) waiting until this notice has disappeared to read a more coherent post,...
10 Years Ago, Finding Dory Threw Pixar To The Culture Wars Over A 2-Second Shot
Finding Dory came out 10 years ago, featuring 2 second clip of a lesbian couple, marking one of Pixar's first queer relationships.
Podcast: The Government Wants to End Anonymity on Phones
The FCC's proposed changes to getting a phone plan; cops keep stalking with Flock; and a software update changes the AC in Amazon vans.
BGP-Based Congestion Signaling for Leaf-Spine Data Center Fabrics
This article proposes BGP-CN, a congestion notification mechanism that uses BGP extended communities to distribute congestion information across leaf-spine data center fabrics. Rather than relying solely on local mechanisms such...
Proposed UI rule of thumb : “If I take a...
Proposed UI rule of thumb: “If I take a screenshot of your app at any moment, it must make sense.”
Why Healthcare AI Fails Differently Across Specialties
Healthcare AI performance can't be measured reliably through aggregate metrics alone. Drawing on experience across multiple clinical specialties, this article argues that oncology, interventional cardiology, clinical pharmacy, and primary care...
Dump Memory
We fix your memory Discussion | Link
Apple's WebKit performance tax leaves iOS browsers stuck in the slow lane, says Microsoft
Rival rendering engines could make pages load almost 30% faster on iPhones, Redmond claims
AI Search Is Breaking Traditional SEO Analytics
AI search is no longer niche. Searcherries’ research shows that users increasingly rely on AI tools for discovery, while AI-generated answers often cite multiple sources and reshape how visibility works...
Adventures of Elliot review roundup: cool combat, meh everything else
The Adventures of Elliot: The Millenium Tales isn't quite the Zelda-beater everyone thought it could be, but reviews agree it's not too bad.
Pixel-to-Isometric Asset Creator: What Can It Be Used For?
Why not make a pixel art modifier so they become like terrain or game assets? And here is what I came up with. You build the pixel art as you...
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