We’ve talked before about number stations — mysterious shortwave transmitters repeating numbers, presumably for clandestine purposes. But, of course, the mere fact that they are unusual makes them stand out. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/06/08/spy-tech-the-gps-numbers-station/)

Optimizing Pancakes from Chemical Principles
https://hackaday.com/2026/06/08/optimizing-pancakes-from-chemical-principles/

Although parents and teachers like to point out the deep link between cooking and chemistry, most people don’t deliberately apply any chemical principles beyond acid/base reactions to their recipes. Not …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/06/08/optimizing-pancakes-from-chemical-principles/)

News Sites are Blocking Internet Archive over AI Scraping Fears
https://hackaday.com/2026/06/08/news-sites-are-blocking-internet-archive-over-ai-scraping-fears/

Especially in this era of the Internet, the role of the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine has become increasingly essential as more and more web content vanishes into the ether or …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/06/08/news-sites-are-blocking-internet-archive-over-ai-scraping-fears/)

Pico-Driven Ultrasound Enables Scaled Acoustic Model of Home Stereo
https://hackaday.com/2026/06/08/pico-driven-ultrasound-enables-scaled-acoustic-model-of-home-stereo/

There are plenty of ways to get sound into your house: good old fashioned headphones, the Dolby surround setup we all lusted after back in the day, or the 21st …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/06/08/pico-driven-ultrasound-enables-scaled-acoustic-model-of-home-stereo/)

Discovery of an Active Wind from the Milky Way’s Central Black Hole
https://hackaday.com/2026/06/08/discovery-of-an-active-wind-from-the-milky-ways-central-black-hole/

One of the fun aspects of astrophysics is that much of it involves phenomena which you cannot exactly study from up close, with the supermassive black hole (SMBH) at the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/06/08/discovery-of-an-active-wind-from-the-milky-ways-central-black-hole/)

Powering Up a Pluggable Module from the 1948 IBM 604 Electronic Calculator
https://hackaday.com/2026/06/08/powering-up-a-pluggable-module-from-the-1948-ibm-604-electronic-calculator/

In that awkward transition phase between electromechanical accounting systems used in the 1940s and the introduction of fully digital computers we find systems such as the IBM 604 Electronic Calculator, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/06/08/powering-up-a-pluggable-module-from-the-1948-ibm-604-electronic-calculator/)

Automatic Tutorial Generator is Perhaps the Best-Case For Vibe Coding
https://hackaday.com/2026/06/09/automatic-tutorial-generator-is-perhaps-the-best-case-for-vibe-coding/

Quick question: how did you learn to code? It probably wasn’t bribing someone a year or two ahead of you in CS to finish all your homework, but that’s exactly …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/06/09/automatic-tutorial-generator-is-perhaps-the-best-case-for-vibe-coding/)