It’s a phrase we use a lot in our community, “Drink the Kool-Aid”, meaning becoming unreasonably infatuated with a dubious idea, technology, or company. It has its origins in 1960s …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/04/22/ai-for-the-skeptics-the-universal-function-for-some-things-only/)

FLOSS Weekly Episode 868: Remove the Noodles
https://hackaday.com/2026/04/22/floss-weekly-episode-868-remove-the-noodles/

This week Jonathan chats with Johannes Millan about Super Productivity and Parallel Code! Those are two very different projects, but both aiming for helping us get our work done. Super …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/04/22/floss-weekly-episode-868-remove-the-noodles/)

Autonomous Coin Flipper Flips Expensive Coin
https://hackaday.com/2026/04/22/autonomous-coin-flipper-flips-expensive-coin/

[Térence Grover] had a very special coin—a  €1,000 commemorative piece only available to Monégasque nationals. If you want to flip one, normally you’d have to go snatch one up from …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/04/22/autonomous-coin-flipper-flips-expensive-coin/)

Photographing Rocket Chute Deployment at 10 km
https://hackaday.com/2026/04/22/photographing-rocket-chute-deployment-at-10-km/

For those who haven’t been following along, [BPS.space] aka [Joe] is on a journey to launch a home-built rocket past the Kármán line where it will officially reach outer space. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/04/22/photographing-rocket-chute-deployment-at-10-km/)

How Gut Bacteria May Affect the Outcome of Cancer Immunotherapy
https://hackaday.com/2026/04/22/how-gut-bacteria-may-affect-the-outcome-of-cancer-immunotherapy/

In the ongoing development of cancer immunotherapy, as well as our still developing understanding of the human immune system, there’s always been a bit of massive elephant in the room. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/04/22/how-gut-bacteria-may-affect-the-outcome-of-cancer-immunotherapy/)

Making RAM at Home in Your Own Semiconductor Fab
https://hackaday.com/2026/04/22/making-ram-at-home-in-your-own-semiconductor-fab/

There’s little point in setting up your own shed-based clean room for semiconductor purposes if you don’t try to do something practical with it. Something like responding to the RAMpocalypse …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/04/22/making-ram-at-home-in-your-own-semiconductor-fab/)

GameCube Bot Records Your Play In A Weird Way
https://hackaday.com/2026/04/23/gamecube-bot-records-your-play-in-a-weird-way/

If you wanted to record yourself playing on a GameCube, you could use a VCR to capture the video output on tape. But there is a more interesting way to …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/04/23/gamecube-bot-records-your-play-in-a-weird-way/)