This Week in Security: The Localhost Bypass, Reflections, and X
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/13/this-week-in-security-the-localhost-bypass-reflections-and-x/

Facebook and Yandex have been caught performing user-hostile tracking. This sort of makes today just another Friday, but this is a bit special. This time, it’s Local Mess. OK, it’s …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/06/13/this-week-in-security-the-localhost-bypass-reflections-and-x/)

Cassette Data Storage from the 1970s
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/13/cassette-data-storage-from-the-1970s/

When home computers first appeared, disk drives were an expensive rarity. Consumers weren’t likely to be interested in punch cards or paper tape, but most people did have consumer-grade audio …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/06/13/cassette-data-storage-from-the-1970s/)

Attack Of The Beepy Clones
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/13/attack-of-the-beepy-clones/

In the Blackberry-keyboard-based project lineage story last week, I covered how a series of open-source projects turned into Beepy, a cool Linux PDA with a lively community. To me, it’s …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/06/13/attack-of-the-beepy-clones/)

Taking A One Handed Keyboard To The Next Level
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/13/taking-a-one-handed-keyboard-to-the-next-level/

When a wrist mounted keyboard floated past in the Hackaday feed, a mental image surfaced, perhaps something like a Blackberry keyboard mounted on a wrist cuff, maybe with some kind …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/06/13/taking-a-one-handed-keyboard-to-the-next-level/)

Adapting an Old Rotary Dial for Digital Applications
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/13/adapting-an-old-rotary-dial-for-digital-applications/

Today in old school nostalgia our tipster [Clint Jay] wrote in to let us know about this rotary dial. If you’re a young whippersnapper you might never have seen a …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/06/13/adapting-an-old-rotary-dial-for-digital-applications/)

How a DIY Chicken Coop Door Opener Went From Simple to Complex
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/13/how-a-diy-chicken-coop-door-opener-went-from-simple-to-complex/

How hard could it be to make a chicken coop door that can be configured to open and close automatically using a straightforward interface? That’s the question that [Jeff Sandberg] …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/06/13/how-a-diy-chicken-coop-door-opener-went-from-simple-to-complex/)

Open a Portal to an NES Emulator
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/13/open-a-portal-to-an-nes-emulator/

The Portal games were revolutionary not only for their puzzle-based, narrative-driven gameplay, but also for their unique physics engine, which let players open portals anywhere and conserve momentum and direction …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/06/13/open-a-portal-to-an-nes-emulator/)