FLOSS Weekly Episode 857: SOCification
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/03/floss-weekly-episode-857-socification/
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/03/floss-weekly-episode-857-socification/
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FLOSS Weekly Episode 857: SOCification
This week Jonathan chats with Konstantinos Margaritis about SIMD programming. Why do these wide data instructions matter? What’s the state of Hyperscan, the project from Intel to power regex …
Franken-engine Plays Its Own Swan Song at 15k RPM
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/03/franken-engine-plays-its-own-swan-song-at-15k-rpm/
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/03/franken-engine-plays-its-own-swan-song-at-15k-rpm/
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Franken-engine Plays Its Own Swan Song At 15k RPM
Back during WWII, Chrysler bodged five inline-6 engines together to create the powerful A57 multibank tank engine. [Maisteer] has some high-revving inline-4 motorcycle engines he’s trying to …
Ride On with FOSS and GoldenCheetah
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/03/ride-on-with-foss-and-goldencheetah/
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/03/ride-on-with-foss-and-goldencheetah/
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Ride On With FOSS And GoldenCheetah
If you exclude certain companies like Peloton, the world of cycling technology is surprisingly open. It’s not perfect by any means, but there are enough open or open-ish standards for many di…
The Database Powering America’s Hospitals May Not be What You Expect
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/03/the-database-powering-americas-hospitals-may-not-be-what-you-expect/
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/03/the-database-powering-americas-hospitals-may-not-be-what-you-expect/
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The Database Powering America’s Hospitals May Not Be What You Expect
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…
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/
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/03/what-happens-when-you-pump-30000-watts-into-a-tungsten-incandescent-light-bulb/
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What Happens When You Pump 30,000 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 brig…
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/
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/04/new-browser-based-cad-system-is-best-friends-with-triangle-meshes/
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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, …
UEFI On ARM? More Likely Than You Think
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/04/uefi-on-arm-more-likely-than-you-think/
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/04/uefi-on-arm-more-likely-than-you-think/
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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 impression. [Venn] from the [int…
Ore Formation: A Surface Level Look
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/04/ore-formation-a-surface-level-look/
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/04/ore-formation-a-surface-level-look/
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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 processes. Str…
An Introduction to Analog Filtering
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/04/an-introduction-to-analog-filtering/
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/04/an-introduction-to-analog-filtering/
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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 to per…
Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with the Pretty Protoypes
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/04/keebin-with-kristina-the-one-with-the-pretty-protoypes/
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/04/keebin-with-kristina-the-one-with-the-pretty-protoypes/
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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] found the …
Raising a GM EV1 from the Dead
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/04/raising-a-gm-ev1-from-the-dead/
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/04/raising-a-gm-ev1-from-the-dead/
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Raising A GM EV1 From The Dead
Probably the biggest story in the world of old cars over the past couple of weeks has been the surfacing of a GM EV1 electric car for sale from an auto salvage yard. This was the famous electric ca…