News

Hackaday
hackaday. com > 06/21/2026 > when-a-favicon-becomes-the-entire-website

When A Favicon Becomes The Entire Website

5+ hour, 10+ min ago  (39+ words) Putting hidden data in places where few expect it can be a fun hobby or even a professional career. In the case of [Tim Wehrle] it's just the former. His most recent project in this area uses a favico. .....

Symbols: nyse:crcl,usdc-usd,usdt-usd,d05.S0,u11.S0,z74.S0
Hackaday
hackaday. com > 06/21/2026 > blender-5-2-coming-soon-with-improved-simulations

Blender 5. 2: Coming Soon With Improved Simulations

22+ hour, 28+ min ago  (34+ words) Blender is one of the poster children for Open Source Software-- proof that something hacked together by enthusiasts could grow to rival the big boys in 3 D modeling, animation and rendering after it w. .....

Symbols: btc-usd
Hackaday
hackaday. com > tag > arithmetic

arithmetic " Hackaday

1+ day, 16+ hour ago  (255+ words) How LLMs Can Be Assisted To Do Arithmetic Correctly Hackaday One of the most hilarious things you can do with an LLM-based chatbot is to ask it to do calculations. If it's a well-written chatbot frontend, it can detect requests…...

Symbols: symbol:once
Hackaday
hackaday. com > 06/19/2026 > how-llms-can-be-assisted-to-do-arithmetic-correctly

How LLMs Can Be Assisted To Do Arithmetic Correctly

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (38+ words) One of the most hilarious things you can do with an LLM-based chatbot is to ask it to do calculations. If it's a well-written chatbot frontend, it can detect requests for arithmetic - like summing 1 a. .....

Symbols: symbol:once
Hackaday
hackaday. com > tag > anthropic

Anthropic

2+ day, 4+ hour ago  (211+ words) Starting on June 11, 2026, the Arch User Repository (AUR) was targeted by malware which rapidly compromised over 1, 500 packages. The AUR repository allows for abandoned community packages to be taken over by a new maintainer, which was exploited by the attackers to…...

Symbols: nasdaq:spcx,nasdaq:meta,nyse:ms,nasdaq:pltr
Hackaday
hackaday. com > 06/18/2026 > an-in-browser-visualizer-for-gps-satellites

An In-Browser Visualizer For GPS Satellites

3+ day, 13+ hour ago  (34+ words) Billions of people use GPS on a daily basis, along with the various other satellite navigation systems available today. But few of us spend much time contemplating the fleet of satellites above us tha. .....

Symbols: nyse:lmt
Hackaday
hackaday. com > 06/17/2026 > floss-weekly-episode-871-rust-wont-save-you

FLOSS Weekly Episode 871: Rust Won't Save You

4+ day, 40+ min ago  (34+ words) This week Jonathan chats with Florian Gilcher about Rust and Ferrous Systems! How have we gotten here, what's coming next, and what's new in the Rust world? Watch to find out! www. ferrous-syst. .....

Hackaday
hackaday. com > 06/17/2026 > skip-the-embedded-filesystem-with-the-tar-like-utfs-format

Skip The Embedded Filesystem With The TAR-like UTFS Format

4+ day, 3+ hour ago  (34+ words) If you need to store some data on a resource-constrained embedded platform, the prospect of dragging in a dependency for something like FAT filesystem access to flash or other storage medium can seem. .....

Symbols: nasdaq:mxl,btc-usd,2495.tw
Hackaday
hackaday. com > 06/15/2026 > the-y2k-bug-in-bsd-2-11-that-survived-2000

The Y2 K Bug In BSD 2. 11 That Survived 2000

1+ week, 4+ hour ago  (258+ words) Hackaday A year before the arrival of the brand-new 21st millennium, the Year 2000 Bug was predicted to grind modern society to a halt and ensure that at the dawn of the year 2001, there'd be nothing left but the smoldering wreck of…...

Symbols: cuet-ug
Hackaday
hackaday. com > 06/14/2026 > why-not-yserver-its-xserver-but-rust-y

Why Not Yserver? It's Xserver, But Rust-y.

1+ week, 21+ hour ago  (37+ words) If you're not into Wayland as a display manager, it seems like your options are slowly dwindling. Xorg isn't exactly a hotbed of activity, and the one fork everyone knows about is best known as a poli. .....

Symbols: btc-usd