In today’s “News from the Dystopia” segment, we have a story about fighting retail theft with drones. It centers on Flock Safety, a company that provides surveillance technologies, including UAVs, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/09/28/hackaday-links-september-28-2025/)

Playing DOOM In Discord With a Special Image URL
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/28/playing-doom-in-discord-with-a-special-image-url/

Can you play DOOM in Discord? At first glance, that may seem rather nonsensical, as Discord is a proprietary chat service and neither a hardware device nor something else that …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/09/28/playing-doom-in-discord-with-a-special-image-url/)

WALL-E’s Forgotten Sibling Rebuilt
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/28/wall-es-forgotten-sibling-rebuilt/

Do you remember the movie WALL-E? Apparently, [Leviathan engineering] did, and he wasn’t as struck by the title character, or Eva, or even the Captain. He was captivated by BURN-E. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/09/28/wall-es-forgotten-sibling-rebuilt/)

infinityTerminal Brings Infinite Horizontal Scrolling
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/29/infinityterminal-brings-infinite-horizontal-scrolling/

The creator of infinite vertical scrolling in social media, [Aza Raskin], infamously regrets his creation that has helped to waste a tremendous amount of human attention and time on the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/09/29/infinityterminal-brings-infinite-horizontal-scrolling/)

Mini Laptop Needs Custom Kernel
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/29/mini-laptop-needs-custom-kernel/

These days, you rarely have to build your own Linux kernel. You just take what your distribution ships, and it usually works just fine. However, [Andrei] became enamored with a …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/09/29/mini-laptop-needs-custom-kernel/)

Two Decades Of Hackaday In Words
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/29/two-decades-of-hackaday-in-words/

I think most of us who make or build things have a thing we are known for making. Where it’s football robots, radios, guitars, cameras, or inflatable textile sculptures, we …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/09/29/two-decades-of-hackaday-in-words/)

10″ LEGO Tyre is Practical Nostalgia
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/29/10-lego-tyre-is-practical-nostalgia/

If there’s one thing that has come to define the generations after the baby boom, it’s probably nostalgia. It’s heavily marketed and weaponized by the market: yearning for better, simpler …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/09/29/10-lego-tyre-is-practical-nostalgia/)

Ask Hackaday: How Do You Distro Hop?
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/29/ask-hackaday-how-do-you-distro-hop/