[Juan] describes himself as a software engineer, a lover of absurd humor, and, among other things, a player of Nethack. We think he should add computer game archaeologist to that …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/11/11/resurrecting-conquer-a-game-from-the-1980s/)

Join the The Newest Social Network and Party Like its 1987
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/12/join-the-the-newest-social-network-and-party-like-its-1987/

Algorithms? Datamining? Brainrot? You don’t need those things to have a social network. As we knew back in the BBS days, long before anyone coined the phrase “social network”, all …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/11/12/join-the-the-newest-social-network-and-party-like-its-1987/)

Pi Compute Modules Make for Compact Cluster
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/12/pi-compute-modules-make-for-compact-cluster/

Raspberry Pi clusters have been a favorite project of homelabbers and distributed computing enthusiasts since the platform first launched over a decade ago, and for good reason. For an extremely …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/11/12/pi-compute-modules-make-for-compact-cluster/)

Morse Code for China
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/12/morse-code-for-china/

It is well known that pictographic languages that use Hanzi, like Mandarin, are difficult to work with for computer input and output devices. After all, each character is a tiny …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/11/12/morse-code-for-china/)

Radio Apocalypse: Survivable Low-Frequency Communication System
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/12/radio-apocalypse-survivable-low-frequency-communication-system/

In the global game of nuclear brinksmanship, secrets are the coin of the realm. This was especially true during the Cold War, when each side fielded armies of spies to …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/11/12/radio-apocalypse-survivable-low-frequency-communication-system/)

FLOSS Weekly Episode 854: The Big Daddy Core
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/12/floss-weekly-episode-854-the-big-daddy-core/

This week Jonathan and Ben chat with Jason Shepherd about Ocre and Atym.io! That’s the lightweight WebAssembly VM that lets you run the same containers on Linux and a host …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/11/12/floss-weekly-episode-854-the-big-daddy-core/)

2025 Component Abuse Challenge: Light an LED With Nothing
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/12/2025-component-abuse-challenge-light-an-led-with-nothing/

Should you spend some time around the less scientifically informed parts of the internet, it’s easy to find “Free power” stories. Usually they’re some form of perpetual motion machine flying …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/11/12/2025-component-abuse-challenge-light-an-led-with-nothing/)