Whether it’s a game of D&D or encrypting top-secret information, a wide array of methods are available for generating the needed random numbers with high enough entropy for their use …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/02/20/open-source-random-numbers/)

Microsoft (Again) Claims Topological Quantum Computing With Majorana Zero Mode Anyons
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/20/microsoft-again-claims-topological-quantum-computing-with-majorana-zero-mode-anyons/

As the fundamental flaw of today’s quantum computers, improving qubit stability remains the focus of much research in this field. One such stability attempt involves so-called topological quantum computing with …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/02/20/microsoft-again-claims-topological-quantum-computing-with-majorana-zero-mode-anyons/)

3D Print Yourself A Split Flap Display
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/20/3d-print-yourself-a-split-flap-display/

Split flap displays! They’re mechanical, clickety-clackity, and largely commercially irrelevant in our screen-obsessed age. That doesn’t mean you can’t have a ball making one of your own, though! [Morgan Manly] …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/02/20/3d-print-yourself-a-split-flap-display/)

Acoustic Engine Harnesses the Power of Sound
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/21/acoustic-engine-harnesses-the-power-of-sound/

If you think sonic booms from supersonic aircraft are a nuisance, wait until the sky is full of planes propelled by up-scaled versions of this interesting but deafening audio resonance …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/02/21/acoustic-engine-harnesses-the-power-of-sound/)

A New 8-bit CPU for C
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/21/a-new-8-bit-cpu-for-c/

It is easy to port C compilers to architectures that look like old minicomputers or bigger CPUs. However, as the authors of the Small Device C Compiler (SDCC) found, pushing …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/02/21/a-new-8-bit-cpu-for-c/)

This Week in Security: OpenSSH, JumbledPath, and RANsacked
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/21/this-week-in-security-openssh-jumbledpath-and-ransacked/

OpenSSH has a newly fixed pair of vulnerabilities, and while neither of them are lighting the Internet on fire, these are each fairly important. The central observation made by the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/02/21/this-week-in-security-openssh-jumbledpath-and-ransacked/)

Building a One Wheel With Tracks
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/21/building-a-one-wheel-with-tracks/

One-wheels use motion-tracking hardware and fine motor control to let you balance on a single wheel. That’s neat and all, but [Michael Rechtin] had another idea in mind—what if a …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/02/21/building-a-one-wheel-with-tracks/)

Hackaday Podcast Episode 309: Seeing WiFi, A World Without USB, Linux in NES in Animal Crossing
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/21/hackaday-podcast-episode-309-seeing-wifi-a-world-without-usb-linux-in-nes-in-animal-crossing/