6+ hour, 17+ min ago  (253+ words) AI For The Skeptics: Attempting To Do Something Useful With It'Hackaday There are some subjects as a writer in which you know they need to be written, but at the same time you feel it necessary to steel yourself for…...

6+ hour, 33+ min ago  (1024+ words) There is plenty of fun to be had in pointing out that AI is good at making low quality but superficially impressive content, and pictures of people who won the jackpot when they were handing out extra fingers. But given…...

8+ hour, 4+ min ago  (418+ words) Emulating a 6502 shouldn't be that hard on a modern computer. Maybe that's why [lasect] decided to make it a bit harder. The PG_6502 emulator uses Postgre SQL. All the CPU resources are database tables, and all opcodes are stored procedures. Huh....

12+ hour, 34+ min ago  (440+ words) The modern web is a major pain to use without a password manager app. However, using such a service requires you to entrust your precious secrets to a third party. They could also be compromised, then. .....

1+ day, 12+ hour ago  (523+ words) It's fair to say that the topic of so-called 'AI coding assistants' is somewhat controversial. With arguments against them ranging from code quality to copyright issues, there are many valid reasons t. .. It's fair to say that the topic of so-called…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago  (431+ words) With the 64-bit version a lot of things just work, though audio couldn't be made to work even with a USB dongle, and there's no hardware acceleration for graphics, so gaming isn't really going to happen either. The positive thing…...

4+ mon, 4+ day ago  (686+ words) Back in the mid 1990s, the release of Microsoft's Windows 95 operating system cemented the Redmond software company's dominance over most of the desktop operating system space. Apple were still in their period in the doldrums waiting for Steve Jobs to return…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (902+ words) [tirimid] is one of those people who have a bit of a problem, in that they like to try out new OSes, just to see what they're like. The fun starts with simply making the thing run at all in…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (460+ words) If you enjoy embedded simulations, make sure to check out this ember simulation on an RP2040. Not to mention other Arduino/browser simulators we've seen in the past. About 20 years late. Why do you think it's 20 years late? I know circuit…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago  (651+ words) Long ago, in the aftermath of the UNIX wars, three kernels emerged from the rubble: BSD, Linux, and Hurd. BSD, being UNIX, was held back by legal wrangling in the aftermath of the wars, and that allow. .. Long ago, in…...