This week Jonathan chats with Andrei, Mahir, and Praneeth, live on location at Texas Instruments! The team at TI has been working hard to provide really good Open Source support …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/04/29/floss-weekly-episode-869-linux-on-your-toaster/)

Using a VT-100 Today
https://hackaday.com/2026/04/29/using-a-vt-100-today/

You may not know what a ADM-3, a TV910, or a H1420 are, but you probably have at least heard of a VT-100. They are all terminals from around the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/04/29/using-a-vt-100-today/)

How to Kill Humidity Sensors With Humidity
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An often overlooked section in the datasheets for popular humidity sensors like the BME280 and DHT22 is the ‘non-condensing humidity’ bit, which puts an important constraint on which environments you …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/04/29/how-to-kill-humidity-sensors-with-humidity/)

Why Model Collapse in LLMs is Inevitable With Self-Learning
https://hackaday.com/2026/04/29/why-model-collapse-in-llms-is-inevitable-with-self-learning/

There is a persistent belief in the ‘AI’ community that large language models (LLMs) have the ability to learn and self-improve by tweaking the weights in their vector space. Although …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/04/29/why-model-collapse-in-llms-is-inevitable-with-self-learning/)

Network Scanner Finds Every Raspberry Pi
https://hackaday.com/2026/04/29/network-scanner-finds-every-raspberry-pi/

DHCP is great for getting machines on the network with a minimum of fuss. However, it can also make remote administration a pain because you never know which IP you’re …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/04/29/network-scanner-finds-every-raspberry-pi/)

Building an x86 Gaming PC Without Intel, NVIDIA or AMD parts
https://hackaday.com/2026/04/30/building-an-x86-gaming-pc-without-intel-nvidia-or-amd-parts/

This is an interesting challenge from the “why not?” files — [GPUSpecs] over on YouTube built a gaming PC without using a single component from NVIDIA, Intel, or AMD. That …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/04/30/building-an-x86-gaming-pc-without-intel-nvidia-or-amd-parts/)

Transcribing the Source of the First DOS for the IBM PC
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Doing software archaeology can be a harrowing task, as rarely do you find complete snapshots of particular versions of software. Case in point the development of MS-DOS – also known …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/04/30/transcribing-the-source-of-the-first-dos-for-the-ibm-pc/)

How TTY Opened Up The Phones For The Hard of Hearing
https://hackaday.com/2026/04/30/how-tty-opened-up-the-phones-for-the-hard-of-hearing/