Top Hackernews posts from hackaday.com

1. The bullet effects in Terminator 2 weren’t CGI (hackaday.com)
   899 points by zdw almost 3 years ago | 303 comments
2. Displayport: A Better Video Interface (hackaday.com)
   828 points by zdw about 1 year ago | 411 comments
3. Supersonic Trebuchet (hackaday.com)
   650 points by wyrm almost 3 years ago | 236 comments
4. All About USB-C: Illegal Adapters (hackaday.com)
   453 points by zdw over 1 year ago | 226 comments
5. Intel's anti-upgrade tricks defeated with Kapton tape (hackaday.com)
   319 points by sharpshadow 4 months ago | 128 comments
6. Neural networks emulate any guitar pedal for $120 (hackaday.com)
   286 points by ushakov over 3 years ago | 156 comments
7. The longest ever flight was 64 days in a Cessna 172 (2021) (hackaday.com)
   264 points by wglb almost 2 years ago | 102 comments
8. TV detector vans once prowled the streets of England (hackaday.com)
   264 points by szczys over 3 years ago | 553 comments
9. A Raspberry Pi 5 is better than two Pi 4S (hackaday.com)
   253 points by MrBuddyCasino 12 months ago | 202 comments
10. Faceless clock makes you think twice about how it works (hackaday.com)
    243 points by Tomte almost 2 years ago | 34 comments
11. Morrowind rebooted the original Xbox (hackaday.com)
    240 points by pmarin over 3 years ago | 163 comments
12. M.2 for Hackers – Connectors (hackaday.com)
    235 points by rcarmo almost 2 years ago | 52 comments
13. Raspberry Pi Enters Microcontroller Game with $4 Pico (hackaday.com)
    217 points by dwpdwpdwpdwpdwp over 3 years ago | 112 comments
14. 802.11ah Wi-Fi HaLOW: The 1 Kilometer WiFi Standard (hackaday.com)
    210 points by rcarmo 9 months ago | 68 comments
15. Giant 555 Timer (hackaday.com)
    204 points by ggoo over 2 years ago | 40 comments
16. Kindle, ePub, and Amazon’s love of reinventing wheels (hackaday.com)
    193 points by lxm over 2 years ago | 159 comments
17. Check Out These Self-Soldering Sleeves from World War II (hackaday.com)
    192 points by rcarmo 8 months ago | 58 comments
18. New motherboard improves old CRT television (hackaday.com)
    188 points by rbanffy about 1 year ago | 67 comments
19. An Open-Source Espresso (hackaday.com)
    188 points by lxm over 1 year ago | 120 comments
20. Tesla Recalls Cars with EMMC Failures, Calls Part a ‘Wear Item’ (hackaday.com)
    184 points by nickthegreek over 3 years ago | 281 comments
21. Big Wind is the meanest firefighting tank you ever saw (2021) (hackaday.com)
    180 points by ZeljkoS over 2 years ago | 64 comments
22. Non-replaceable battery? Not if this proposed EU law passes (hackaday.com)
    174 points by rolph over 1 year ago | 234 comments
23. Add $4 WiFi Logging to IKEA’s $12 Air Quality Sensor (Wemos and Vindriktning) (hackaday.com)
    173 points by ck2 over 1 year ago | 39 comments
24. A medieval Gothic monastery built using CAD / CAM (hackaday.com)
    167 points by magda_wang 10 months ago | 84 comments
25. Ugliest Airplane Ever Built Predicted the Future (hackaday.com)
    159 points by lxm almost 2 years ago | 87 comments
26. Make Your Python CLI Tools Pop with Rich (hackaday.com)
    158 points by lxm over 2 years ago | 47 comments
27. An open-source, free circuit simulator (hackaday.com)
    157 points by jerryjerryjerry about 1 year ago | 37 comments
28. Vim Foot Pedal (hackaday.com)
    156 points by tomerbd almost 2 years ago | 128 comments
29. Canada ends official time signal (hackaday.com)
    152 points by reaperducer 11 months ago | 74 comments
30. Video RAM Transplant Doubles RTX3070 Memory to 16GB (hackaday.com)
    151 points by antman over 3 years ago | 138 comments
31. All About USB-C: Resistors and Emarkers (hackaday.com)
    146 points by Tomte over 1 year ago | 42 comments
32. Quetzal-1 Satellite Goes Open Source (hackaday.com)
    145 points by jerryjerryjerry about 1 year ago | 10 comments
33. Using a laser to blast away a Bayer filter array from a CCD (hackaday.com)
    145 points by _Microft about 3 years ago | 38 comments
34. Bye Bye Ubuntu, Hello Manjaro. How Did We Get Here? (hackaday.com)
    143 points by dcminter over 1 year ago | 234 comments
35. An Open-Source HDMI Capture Card (hackaday.com)
    140 points by Tomte almost 2 years ago | 54 comments
36. The fragmented nature of modern-day railways (hackaday.com)
    139 points by lxm about 2 years ago | 84 comments
37. Review: Beepy a Palm-Sized Linux Hacking Playground (hackaday.com)
    134 points by teleforce about 1 year ago | 50 comments
38. Emulating the IBM PC on an ESP32 (hackaday.com)
    131 points by watchdogtimer about 3 years ago | 28 comments
39. Farewell American Computer Magazines (hackaday.com)
    130 points by keiferski over 1 year ago | 100 comments
40. Philips LEDs from Dubai: The Royal Lights You Can’t Buy (hackaday.com)
    129 points by emptybits over 3 years ago | 71 comments
41. End of an Era: NTSC Finally Goes Dark in America (hackaday.com)
    129 points by woldemariam about 3 years ago | 94 comments
42. Haier Threatens Legal Action Against Home Assistant Plugin Developer (hackaday.com)
    128 points by nickthegreek 8 months ago | 2 comments
43. Ethernet: The Basics (hackaday.com)
    126 points by electroagenda 7 months ago | 51 comments
44. Pixel Pump: Open-source vacuum pickup tool (hackaday.com)
    125 points by Tomte about 1 year ago | 27 comments
45. DVD drives turned into microscopes (hackaday.com)
    124 points by Tomte almost 2 years ago | 41 comments
46. PCIe for Hackers: The Diffpair Prelude (hackaday.com)
    124 points by zdw over 1 year ago | 48 comments
47. Haiku OS: The Open Source BeOS You Can Daily Drive in 2024 (hackaday.com)
    124 points by rcarmo 8 months ago | 115 comments
48. E-Paper Wall Paper (hackaday.com)
    121 points by lxm over 1 year ago | 31 comments
49. Haier Europe Eases Off on Legal Threat and Seeks Dialogue (hackaday.com)
    119 points by Tomte 8 months ago | 82 comments
50. All About Cats, and What Ethernet Classifications Mean (hackaday.com)
    118 points by rcarmo 11 months ago | 71 comments
51. Muse Group Continues Tone Deaf Handling of Audacity (hackaday.com)
    117 points by nickthegreek about 3 years ago | 67 comments
52. Harvesting electricity from high-voltage transmission lines using fences (hackaday.com)
    113 points by beardyw 8 months ago | 135 comments
53. Putting an Ultra-Tiny Linux Board in a Phone Charger Eventually (hackaday.com)
    110 points by rbanffy over 3 years ago | 49 comments
54. All About USB-C: Example Circuits (hackaday.com)
    109 points by nevir about 1 year ago | 21 comments
55. The roller ship was not an effective way to cross the high seas (hackaday.com)
    109 points by Stratoscope 6 months ago | 30 comments
56. We Ruined Status LEDs; Here’s Why That Needs to Change (hackaday.com)
    107 points by rex_lupi about 1 year ago | 122 comments
57. Russia’s New Mystery Shortwave Station (hackaday.com)
    106 points by lxm over 1 year ago | 16 comments
58. A Chip to Bridge the USB 2 – USB 3 Divide (hackaday.com)
    106 points by zdw over 2 years ago | 58 comments
59. What does it take to make your own integrated circuits at home? (hackaday.com)
    105 points by wslh about 1 year ago | 22 comments
60. Peeking underground with giant flying antennas (hackaday.com)
    104 points by sharpshadow 4 months ago | 29 comments
61. The Dreamcast Legacy (hackaday.com)
    103 points by zdw over 2 years ago | 101 comments
62. A Look Back at the USSR Computer Industry (hackaday.com)
    101 points by lxm about 2 years ago | 84 comments
63. Hacked GDB Dashboard Puts It All on Display (hackaday.com)
    101 points by rcarmo over 2 years ago | 20 comments
64. Wet Country Wireless; How British Weather Killed a Billion Pound Tech Company (hackaday.com)
    101 points by tweetle_beetle over 3 years ago | 56 comments
65. Google Nest Mini Gutted and Rebuilt to Run Custom Agents (hackaday.com)
    100 points by jklinger410 about 1 year ago | 11 comments
66. Dirty USB-C Tricks: One Port for the Price of Two (hackaday.com)
    100 points by CuteDepravity over 1 year ago | 6 comments
67. It's difficult to read an audiophile guide as an analogue engineer (hackaday.com)
    98 points by zdw over 1 year ago | 145 comments
68. DisplayPort: Taming the Altmode (hackaday.com)
    97 points by rcarmo about 1 year ago | 62 comments
69. Tennis balls serve as decent bicycle tires that don’t easily puncture (hackaday.com)
    94 points by rolph over 1 year ago | 58 comments
70. Tetris for Game Boy Gets Online Multiplayer (hackaday.com)
    94 points by ashitlerferad over 3 years ago | 27 comments
71. Before Google, there was the reference librarian (hackaday.com)
    92 points by rolph almost 2 years ago | 27 comments
72. OpenGL Machine Learning on Low-End Hardware (hackaday.com)
    92 points by rcarmo almost 3 years ago | 9 comments
73. Linux fu: getting started with systemd (hackaday.com)
    92 points by drpixie 5 months ago | 60 comments
74. LEDs from Dubai (2021) (hackaday.com)
    91 points by WithinReason over 1 year ago | 77 comments
75. Adjustable, low-impact keeb (hackaday.com)
    90 points by serial_dev over 3 years ago | 75 comments
76. Dyson hair dryer becomes jet engine (hackaday.com)
    88 points by lxm over 1 year ago | 22 comments
77. $60 PC Oscilloscope Review (hackaday.com)
    88 points by todsacerdoti over 2 years ago | 31 comments
78. GPS antenna mods make Starlink terminal immune to jammers (hackaday.com)
    88 points by jamapy 7 months ago | 72 comments
79. The Amiga 1000, Still Receiving New Peripherals 35 Years Later (hackaday.com)
    85 points by sohkamyung over 3 years ago | 65 comments
80. Forrest Mims and RadioShack (2017) (hackaday.com)
    83 points by keiferski 12 months ago | 22 comments
81. RP2040 Runs Linux Through RISC-V Emulation (hackaday.com)
    82 points by teleforce over 1 year ago | 18 comments
82. Audio tape interface revives microcassettes as storage medium (hackaday.com)
    82 points by rcarmo almost 3 years ago | 33 comments
83. Blinking Cursor Turns 54 (hackaday.com)
    81 points by elvis70 over 2 years ago | 45 comments
84. Repairing a $25K HP Workstation from 1981 to Run Pac-Man (hackaday.com)
    78 points by redbell about 1 year ago | 22 comments
85. Trouble Brewing for RISC-V as Issue of Technology Transfer Is Questioned (hackaday.com)
    78 points by rcarmo 11 months ago | 49 comments
86. TV Typewriter Remembered (hackaday.com)
    76 points by beardyw about 1 year ago | 10 comments
87. Iron nitrides: powerful magnets without the rare earth elements (hackaday.com)
    75 points by milar about 1 year ago | 10 comments
88. Recreating the Sounds of the ’90s with a YM3812 Synthesizer (hackaday.com)
    73 points by rcarmo almost 2 years ago | 21 comments
89. Nintendo's U-Force (hackaday.com)
    73 points by bookofjoe about 2 years ago | 34 comments
90. Computer Speed Gains Erased by Modern Software (hackaday.com)
    70 points by josephcsible about 1 year ago | 34 comments
91. Soviet scientific calculator gives up its Cold War-era secrets (hackaday.com)
    70 points by thunderbong about 3 years ago | 21 comments
92. Mozilla Lets Folks Turn AI LLMs into Single-File Executables (hackaday.com)
    69 points by anonymousiam 10 months ago | 4 comments
93. Walkmp3rson is an MP3 player like Sony never made (hackaday.com)
    67 points by rcarmo almost 2 years ago | 50 comments
94. Dear Ubuntu (hackaday.com)
    67 points by Alupis over 1 year ago | 79 comments
95. Open-source passive radar taken down for regulatory reasons (2022) (hackaday.com)
    67 points by DreamGen 5 months ago | 3 comments
96. In a Way, 3D Scanning Is over a Century Old (hackaday.com)
    64 points by helsinkiandrew almost 2 years ago | 20 comments
97. Copper Be Gone: The Chemistry Behind PCB Etching (hackaday.com)
    64 points by rolph about 1 year ago | 7 comments
98. Displays We Love Hacking: SPI and I2C (hackaday.com)
    64 points by rcarmo 9 months ago | 9 comments
99. Heroes of Hardware Revolution: Bob Widlar (2014) (hackaday.com)
    63 points by jnord over 1 year ago | 6 comments
100. CadQuery Comes of Age (hackaday.com)
     63 points by watchdogtimer over 2 years ago | 28 comments