Compliant Mechanism Shrinks Instead of Stretching
https://hackaday.com/2025/05/16/compliant-mechanism-shrinks-instead-of-stretching/

Intuitively, you think that everything that you stretch will pull back, but you wouldn’t expect a couple of pieces of plastic to win. Yet, researchers over at [AMOLF] have figured …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/05/16/compliant-mechanism-shrinks-instead-of-stretching/)

This Week in Security: Lingering Spectre, Deep Fakes, and CoreAudio
https://hackaday.com/2025/05/16/this-week-in-security-lingering-spectre-deep-fakes-and-coreaudio/

Spectre lives. We’ve got two separate pieces of research, each finding new processor primitives that allow Spectre-style memory leaks. Before we dive into the details of the new techniques, let’s …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/05/16/this-week-in-security-lingering-spectre-deep-fakes-and-coreaudio/)

ChatGPT & Me. ChatGPT Is Me!
https://hackaday.com/2025/05/16/chatgpt-me-chatgpt-is-me/

For a while now part of my email signature has been a quote from a Hackaday commenter insinuating that an article I wrote was created by a “Dumb AI”. You …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/05/16/chatgpt-me-chatgpt-is-me/)

Hackaday Podcast Episode 321: Learn You Some 3DP, Let the Wookie Win, or Design a Thinkpad Motherboard Anew
https://hackaday.com/2025/05/16/hackaday-podcast-episode-321-learn-you-some-3dp-let-the-wookie-win-or-design-a-thinkpad-motherboard-anew/

Join Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi as they take a whirlwind tour of the best and brightest hacks of the last week. This episode starts off with an …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/05/16/hackaday-podcast-episode-321-learn-you-some-3dp-let-the-wookie-win-or-design-a-thinkpad-motherboard-anew/)

The Screamer Is Just Like The Clapper But Even More Annoying
https://hackaday.com/2025/05/16/the-screamer-is-just-like-the-clapper-but-even-more-annoying/

Remember The Clapper? It was a home automation tool (of sorts) that let you turn appliances on and off by clapping. [Kevin O’Connor] has built something rather similar, if more …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/05/16/the-screamer-is-just-like-the-clapper-but-even-more-annoying/)

A Portable M4 Mac mini
https://hackaday.com/2025/05/16/a-portable-m4-mac-mini/

The Mac mini is the closest to an Apple-based SBC you can get, so it lends itself to unusual portable computers. [Scott Yu-Jan] is back to tackle a portable build …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/05/16/a-portable-m4-mac-mini/)

New Bismuth Transistor Runs 40% Faster and Uses 10% Less Power
https://hackaday.com/2025/05/16/new-bismuth-transistor-runs-40-faster-and-uses-10-less-power/