A couple of weeks back we featured a story (third item) about a chunk of space jetsam that tried to peacefully return to Earth, only to find a Florida family’s …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/06/30/hackaday-links-june-30-2024/)

ChatGPT and Other LLMs Produce Bull Excrement, Not Hallucinations
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/01/chatgpt-and-other-llms-produce-bull-excrement-not-hallucinations/

By kallerna – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=122952945
" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Cattle_Leveakari_6.jpg?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Cattle_Leveakari_6.jpg?w=800">In the communications surrounding LLMs and popular interfaces like ChatGPT the term ‘hallucination’ is often used to reference false statements made in the output of these models. This infers that …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/07/01/chatgpt-and-other-llms-produce-bull-excrement-not-hallucinations/)

An IBM M2 Keyboard Lives Again
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/01/an-ibm-m2-keyboard-lives-again/

There’s a mystique in old keyboard circles around the IBM Model M, the granddaddy of PC keyboards with those famous buckling spring key switches. The original Model M was a …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/07/01/an-ibm-m2-keyboard-lives-again/)

A Brief History of Perpetual Motion
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/01/a-brief-history-of-perpetual-motion/

Conservation of energy isn’t just a good idea: It is the law. In particular, it is the first law of thermodynamics. But, apparently, a lot of people don’t really get …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/07/01/a-brief-history-of-perpetual-motion/)

Modeling Home Heating Systems With Circuit Simulation Software
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/01/modeling-home-heating-systems-with-circuit-simulation-software/

Electricity flow is generally invisible, silent, and not something that most humans want to touch, so understanding how charge moves around can be fairly unintuitive at first. There are plenty …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/07/01/modeling-home-heating-systems-with-circuit-simulation-software/)

FreeCAD Foray: Shells For All Our PCBs
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/01/freecad-foray-shells-for-all-our-pcbs/

Are you the kind of hacker who tries to pick up FreeCAD, but doesn’t want to go through a tutorial and instead pokes around the interface, trying to transfer the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/07/01/freecad-foray-shells-for-all-our-pcbs/)

Casting Concrete With A 3D-Printed Mould
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/01/casting-concrete-with-a-3d-printed-mould/

We’re accustomed to covering the use of 3D printing in casting, usually as a lost-PLA former in metal casting. That’s not the only use of the technique though, and perhaps …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/07/01/casting-concrete-with-a-3d-printed-mould/)

Split A USB-C PD Port Into Three Port-ions
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/01/split-a-usb-c-pd-port-into-three-port-ions/