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  • AI Can Now Compress Text
    by Jenny List on April 29, 2024 at 5:00 am

    There are many claims in the air about the capabilities of AI systems, as the technology continues to ascend the dizzy heights of the hype cycle. Some of them are …read more

  • Hack In Style With This Fallout Cyberdeck
    by Julian Scheffers on April 29, 2024 at 2:00 am

    There’s always an appeal to a cool-looking computer case or cyberdeck – and with authentic-looking Vault-Tec style, [Eric B] and [kc9psw]’s fallout-themed cyberdeck is no exception. The case looks like …read more

  • Hackaday Links: April 28, 2024
    by Dan Maloney on April 28, 2024 at 11:00 pm

    Well, it’s official — AI is ruining everything. That’s not exactly news, but learning that LLMs are apparently being used to write scientific papers is a bit alarming, and Andrew …read more

  • You Can Run BASIC On an Old HP 4592 Protocol Analyzer
    by Lewin Day on April 28, 2024 at 8:00 pm

    What do you do when you find an ancient piece of test gear and want to have fun? Well, you can always try getting BASIC running on it, and that’s …read more

  • Corral Some Zippy Blue Flames Into 3D Printed Troughs
    by Donald Papp on April 28, 2024 at 5:00 pm

    [Steve Mould] came across an interesting little phenomenon of blue flames zipping around a circular track. This led to diving down a bit of a rabbit hole about excitable mediums, …read more

  • Boneblocker Is A Big LED Wall That Rocks
    by Lewin Day on April 28, 2024 at 2:00 pm

    [Nick Lombardy] took on a job almost every maker imagines themselves doing at some point. He built a giant LED wall and he did a damn fine job of it, …read more

  • The Z80 Is Dead. Long Live The Free Z80!
    by Jenny List on April 28, 2024 at 11:00 am

    It’s with a tinge of sadness that we and many others reported on the recent move by Zilog to end-of-life the original Z80 8-bit microprocessor. This was the part that …read more