AI Book Scanning: Just What Is A Rare Book?
https://hackaday.com/2026/08/25/ai-book-scanning-just-what-is-a-rare-book/

One of the stories of the last few weeks has been that AI companies have been scanning books in very large numbers in order to train their models with content …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/08/25/ai-book-scanning-just-what-is-a-rare-book/)

Native SMB3 Client Brings Modern NAS Access To 20-Year-Old PowerPC Macs
https://hackaday.com/2026/08/25/native-smb3-client-brings-modern-nas-access-to-20-year-old-powerpc-macs/

As software updates cease for operating systems, they eventually begin to lose access to parts of the LAN and internet due to out of date encryption features, as well as …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/08/25/native-smb3-client-brings-modern-nas-access-to-20-year-old-powerpc-macs/)

Reject Fluid Simulations, Return To Rheoscopic Fluid
https://hackaday.com/2026/08/25/reject-fluid-simulations-return-to-rheoscopic-fluid/

Fluid simulations are one of the “killer apps” of high-performance computing, but if you can’t afford the performance, they can take a depressingly long time to run. Depending on your …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/08/25/reject-fluid-simulations-return-to-rheoscopic-fluid/)

Cheap AI Token Resellers: The Secret Ingredient is Fraud
https://hackaday.com/2026/08/25/cheap-ai-token-resellers-the-secret-ingredient-is-fraud/

[Matt Lenhard] has an interesting writeup explaining exactly how fraudsters offer access to cutting-edge AI models at a tenth of the price. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the secret is to get tokens …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/08/25/cheap-ai-token-resellers-the-secret-ingredient-is-fraud/)

Blow Those Pyros With A Telephone!
https://hackaday.com/2026/08/25/blow-those-pyros-with-a-telephone/

A pyrotechnic charge is set off by passing a high voltage through a filament within it, melting the filament and igniting the charge. We could think of a variety of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/08/25/blow-those-pyros-with-a-telephone/)

New Controller Makes Heavy Machinery Intuitive
https://hackaday.com/2026/08/26/new-controller-makes-heavy-machinery-intuitive/

As children, many of us looked wistfully into the cockpits of heavy machinery, wondering just how the series of knobs and levers would do something like operate a bulldozer, crane, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/08/26/new-controller-makes-heavy-machinery-intuitive/)

Claude Plays DOOM
https://hackaday.com/2026/08/26/claude-plays-doom/

Large language models (LLMs) are generally thought of as machines that accept textual prompts and spit out textual content. However, if you’re creative in the way you interface with them, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/08/26/claude-plays-doom/)