Ever heard of MUMPS? Both programming language and database, it was developed in the 1960s for the Massachusetts General Hospital. The goal was to streamline the increasingly enormous timesink that …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/12/03/the-database-powering-americas-hospitals-may-not-be-what-you-expect/)

What Happens When You Pump 30,000 Watts Into a Tungsten Incandescent Light Bulb?
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/03/what-happens-when-you-pump-30000-watts-into-a-tungsten-incandescent-light-bulb/

Over on YouTube [Drake] from the [styropyro] channel investigates what happens when you take an enormous tungsten incandescent light bulb and pump 30,000 watts through it. The answer: it burns …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/12/03/what-happens-when-you-pump-30000-watts-into-a-tungsten-incandescent-light-bulb/)

New Browser-based CAD System is Best Friends With Triangle Meshes
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/04/new-browser-based-cad-system-is-best-friends-with-triangle-meshes/

Who’s interested in a brand new, from-scratch boundary representation (BREP) kernel? How about one that has no topological naming problem, a web-native parametric CAD front end to play with, and …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/12/04/new-browser-based-cad-system-is-best-friends-with-triangle-meshes/)

UEFI On ARM? More Likely Than You Think
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/04/uefi-on-arm-more-likely-than-you-think/

Now, Rock 5 ITX+ is no x86 board, sporting an ARM Rockship RK3588 on its ITX form-factor PCB, but reading this blog post’s headline might as well give you the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/12/04/uefi-on-arm-more-likely-than-you-think/)

Ore Formation: A Surface Level Look
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/04/ore-formation-a-surface-level-look/

The past few months, we’ve been giving you a quick rundown of the various ways ores form underground; now the time has come to bring that surface-level understanding to surface-level …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/12/04/ore-formation-a-surface-level-look/)

An Introduction to Analog Filtering
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/04/an-introduction-to-analog-filtering/

One of the major difficulties in studying electricity, especially when compared to many other physical phenomena, is that it cannot be observed directly by human senses. We can manipulate it …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/12/04/an-introduction-to-analog-filtering/)

Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with the Pretty Protoypes
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/04/keebin-with-kristina-the-one-with-the-pretty-protoypes/

Some like it flat, and there’s nothing wrong with that. What you are looking at is the first prototype of Atlas by [AsicResistor], which is still a work in progress. [AsicResistor] …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/12/04/keebin-with-kristina-the-one-with-the-pretty-protoypes/)