If you grew up in the middle of the Cold War, you probably remember hearing about the Distant Early Warning line between duck-and-cover drills. The United States and Canada built …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/07/16/the-dew-line-remembered/)

This SSD Will Self Destruct in Ten Seconds…
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/16/this-ssd-will-self-destruct-in-ten-seconds/

In case you can’t wait for your flash memory to die from write cycling, TeamGroup now has a drive that, via software or hardware, can destroy its own flash chips …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/07/16/this-ssd-will-self-destruct-in-ten-seconds/)

Vintage Hardware Find Includes Time Capsule of Data
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/16/vintage-hardware-find-includes-time-capsule-of-data/

Before social media brought the Internet to the masses, and before even Napster, ICQ, and AIM gave those with a phone line a reason to connect online at all, those …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/07/16/vintage-hardware-find-includes-time-capsule-of-data/)

A Neural Net For a Graphing Calculator?
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/17/a-neural-net-for-a-graphing-calculator/

Machine learning and neural nets can be pretty handy, and people continue to push the envelope of what they can do both in high end server farms as well as …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/07/17/a-neural-net-for-a-graphing-calculator/)

This Service Life Study Really Grinds Our Gears
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/17/this-service-life-study-really-grinds-our-gears/

3D printing is arguably over-used in the maker community. It’s just so easy to run off a quick prototype and then… well, it’s good enough, right? Choosing the right plastic …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/07/17/this-service-life-study-really-grinds-our-gears/)

A Field Guide to the North American Cold Chain
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/17/a-field-guide-to-the-north-american-cold-chain/

So far in the “Field Guide” series, we’ve mainly looked at critical infrastructure systems that, while often blending into the scenery, are easily observable once you know where to look. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/07/17/a-field-guide-to-the-north-american-cold-chain/)

ProtoWeb: Browsing the Information Superhighway Like It’s 1995
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/17/protoweb-browsing-the-information-superhighway-like-its-1995/

Feeling nostalgic? Weren’t around in the 90s but wonder what it was like? ProtoWeb has you covered! Over on his YouTube channel [RetroTech Chris] shows you how to browse the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/07/17/protoweb-browsing-the-information-superhighway-like-its-1995/)

The Apollo–Soyuz Legacy Lives On, Fifty Years Later
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/17/the-apollo-soyuz-legacy-lives-on-fifty-years-later/