The reason why large language models are called ‘large’ is not because of how smart they are, but as a factor of their sheer size in bytes. At billions of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/10/23/making-the-smallest-and-dumbest-llm-with-extreme-quantization/)

Automatically Serving Up Canned Cat Food
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/23/automatically-serving-up-canned-cat-food/

If there’s any one benefit to having a cat as a pet instead of a dog, it’s that they’re a bit more independent and able to care for themselves for …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/10/23/automatically-serving-up-canned-cat-food/)

Tommy Flowers: How An Engineer Won The War
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/24/tommy-flowers-how-an-engineer-won-the-war/

Back in 2016, we took you to a collection of slightly dilapidated prefabricated huts in the English Home Counties, and showed you a computer. The place was the National Museum …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/10/24/tommy-flowers-how-an-engineer-won-the-war/)

Robot Phone Home…Or Else
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/24/robot-phone-home-or-else/

We would have enjoyed [Harishankar’s] tear down of a robot vacuum cleaner, even if it didn’t have a savage twist at the end. Turns out, the company deliberately bricked his …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/10/24/robot-phone-home-or-else/)

This Week in Security: Court Orders, GlassWorm, TARmageddon, and It was DNS
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/24/this-week-in-security-court-orders-glassworm-tarmageddon-and-it-was-dns/

This week, a US federal court has ruled that NSO Group is no longer allowed to use Pegasus spyware against users of WhatsApp. And for their trouble, NSO was also …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/10/24/this-week-in-security-court-orders-glassworm-tarmageddon-and-it-was-dns/)

Making WiFi Sound Like Dial-Up Internet
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/24/making-wifi-sound-like-dial-up-internet/

Dial-up modems had a distinctive sound when connecting, with the glittering, screeching song becoming a familiar melody to those jumping online in the early days of the Internet. Modern digital …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/10/24/making-wifi-sound-like-dial-up-internet/)

Hackaday Podcast Episode 343: Double Component Abuse, a Tinkercad Twofer, and a Pair of Rants
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/24/hackaday-podcast-episode-343-double-component-abuse-a-tinkercad-twofer-and-a-pair-of-rants/

This week, Hackaday’s Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met up across the universe to bring you the latest news, mystery sound, and of course, a big bunch of hacks from …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/10/24/hackaday-podcast-episode-343-double-component-abuse-a-tinkercad-twofer-and-a-pair-of-rants/)

The Isetta TTL Computer Makes Some Noise
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/24/the-isetta-ttl-computer-makes-some-noise/