Close-Up Look Reveals that Raindrops Are More Erosive than Assumed
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/05/close-up-look-reveals-that-raindrops-are-more-erosive-than-assumed/

Whenever it rains, people generally don’t look too closely at what the drops do exactly when they hit a surface. We generally assume that stuff will get wet and depending …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/01/05/close-up-look-reveals-that-raindrops-are-more-erosive-than-assumed/)

Messing With JPEGs in a Text Editor is Fun and Glitchy
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/05/messing-with-jpegs-in-a-text-editor-is-fun-and-glitchy/

If you’re looking to edit an image, you might open it in Photoshop, GIMP, or even Paint Shop Pro if you’re stuck in 2005. But who needs it — [Patrick …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/01/05/messing-with-jpegs-in-a-text-editor-is-fun-and-glitchy/)

Powering on a 1985 Photophone CP220 Videoconference System
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/06/powering-on-a-1985-photophone-cp220-videoconference-system/

The concept of remote video calls has been worked on since Bell’s phone company began pitching upgrading from telegrams to real-time voice calls. It wasn’t until the era of digital …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/01/06/powering-on-a-1985-photophone-cp220-videoconference-system/)

Super Mario 64, Now With Microtransactions
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/06/super-mario-64-now-with-microtransactions/

Besides being a fun way to pass time, video gaming is a surprisingly affordable hobby per unit time. A console or budget PC might only cost a few hundred dollars, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/01/06/super-mario-64-now-with-microtransactions/)

How Advanced Autopilots Make Airplanes Safer When Humans go AWOL
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/06/how-advanced-autopilots-make-airplanes-safer-when-humans-go-awol/

It’s a cliché in movies that whenever an airplane’s pilots are incapacitated, some distraught crew member queries the self-loading freight if any of them know how to fly a plane. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/01/06/how-advanced-autopilots-make-airplanes-safer-when-humans-go-awol/)

The use of Ultrasound to take on Cancerous Tumors
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/06/the-use-of-ultrasound-to-take-on-cancerous-tumors/

As areas of uncontrolled cell growth, cancerous growth form a major problem for a multi-celled organism like us humans. Thus before they can begin to affect our long-term prospects of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/01/06/the-use-of-ultrasound-to-take-on-cancerous-tumors/)

Linux Fu: Yet Another Shell Script Trick
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/06/linux-fu-yet-another-shell-script-trick/

I’m going to go ahead and admit it: I really have too many tray icons. You know the ones. They sit on your taskbar, perhaps doing something in the background …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/01/06/linux-fu-yet-another-shell-script-trick/)