2026-08-17
The US Military Purchased 21 Russian Mach 2.3 MiG-29 Fulcrum Fighters to Stop Iran From Gaining a Nuclear Weapons Delivery System
In 1997, Iran inspected a Moldovan fleet of MiG-29 fighters, including 14 Fulcrum-Cs American officials described as nuclear-capable. Washington used Nunn-Lugar funds to buy 21 jets, 500 missiles and their...
A Russian Navy Titanium Nuclear Attack Submarine Smashed Into a US Navy Nuclear Submarine 47 Days After the Soviet Union Collapsed
Forty-seven days after the Soviet Union dissolved, USS Baton Rouge and the Russian attack submarine K-276 collided near the Northern Fleet’s main bases. Neither crew was injured. The Russian boat...
Markdown SVG upgrades
I started building my markdown-svg-renderer tool in May, but I've since added enough features to it that it's worth talking about here again. It's evolved into my ideal tool for...
Russia’s 58,000-Ton Aircraft Carrier Had Its Dock Sink, Was Hit With a 70-Ton Crane that Opened 215-Square-Foot Hole, and Then Was on Fire for a Day
Russia began overhauling Admiral Kuznetsov after its troubled Syria deployment. Then the PD-50 drydock sank, a 70-ton crane tore through the flight deck, and a fatal welding fire burned for...
Hansel by Seedling
Your email, your server, your keys so you're not locked out Discussion | Link
Hackaday Links: August 16, 2026
We’re no strangers to unusual hardware failures around these parts, but even so, a swarm of jellyfish clogging up the works is a new one to us. That’s exactly what...
After 10 Years, Tom Cruise's Forgotten 118-Minute Mystery-Thriller Is Back on Free Streaming
Prime Video's Reacher owes everything to this underrated Tom Cruise thriller
Why High-Growth Companies Should Treat Operations as a Product
Scaling requires treating operations as a product. Learn how to standardize team handoffs, centralize metric definitions, and build scalable decision rules.
'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' Hits $2 Billion at the Box Office
Marvel's latest Spider-Man movie keeps breaking records, hitting $2 billion in less than 3 weeks. Could it be Marvel's first $3 billion movie?
Taxation as a Protocol Layer: Why Elon Musk’s UBI Model Fails Without Automated Transaction Math
A proposal to replace conventional taxes with a 5% transaction levy and use the proceeds to fund a $1,000-a-week UBI without printing new money.
Vendo
Let your users build their own features inside your product Discussion | Link
Choosing a Character Size
Choosing a Character Size How to Draw Pixel Art Characters | For Beginners (Part 3)
Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things
Friday's big release was Qwen 3.8 27B, an Apache 2 licensed 27B parameter vision-capable LLM from Alibaba's Qwen research lab. I've been looking forward to this one: 27B is an...
Mahershala Ali’s 'Blade' Is Dead, But His Forgotten 4-Part Sci-Fi Masterpiece Is Free on Streaming
You can still watch the actor play a superhero in his breakout role
2026-08-16
The Art of Looking: Eleven Ways of Viewing the Multiple Realities of Our Everyday Wonderland
"Right now, you are missing the vast majority of what is happening around you. You are missing the events unfolding in your body, in the distance, and right in front...
Study Update: Does post-training quantization change welfare-relevant indicators in open-weight language models?
This content will not make sense without reading the preregistration found in the original postWe ask whether welfare-relevant indicators change with quantization; either in valence (do indicators shift toward more...
3D Platformer Bubsy 4D Scratches Out A New DLC Pack
We’ve loved seeing Bubsy‘s return and shared our opinions in our recent review. Since then, developer Fabraz, alongside publisher Atari, has released the first major update called The Black Hole....
Blender Agent Bridge
Open-source MCP bridge for Blender AI workflows Discussion | Link
HookLens
Real-time webhook triage & AI root-cause analysis Discussion | Link
Another Radio on a Chip Design
It used to be a rite of passage to build some sort of AM radio receiver. Many people started with a crystal radio, of course, but you’d graduate to maybe...
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