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Hackaday Links: September 6, 2026

Yesterday, Isar Aerospace secured its place in the history books when the upper stage of their Spectrum rocket put a payload of CubeSats into low Earth orbit (LEO). Not only …read more

Saturn’s South Pole is Apparently Decagon-Shaped

Although some would argue that the hexagon is the bestagon, astronomers have discovered that Saturn appears to favor the ten-sided decagon on its south pole. This comes as its south …read more

Ubisoft decides Linux isn’t worth the effort

Sourav Rudra reports at It’s FOSS that Ubisoft is dropping Linux support for its melee fighting game For Honor. Starting September 10, the game will no longer be playable on Linux desktops or the Steam Deck. The cutoff…

1960s Theory That Stonehenge Was a Prehistoric Computer

One of the earliest near-accurate depictions of Stonehenge by Lucas de Heere, image via Wikipedia Commons Though now debunked, in 1966 Gerald Hawkins put forth the theory that Stonehenge was actually an ancient computer…

Is This the Year of The Linux… Television?

The Year of the Linux Desktop hasn’t been on its way for quite as long as nuclear fusion plants, but somehow it seems to recede into the horizon at just …read more

Surprisingly STEM: Telescope Engineer

In this episode of Surprisingly STEM from Learn with NASA, Mechanical Engineer Caroline Griffin gives viewers an inside look at the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Set your path to the stars with the Adafruit…

This Clavichord is a Well-Tempered Project

The Clavichord needs no introduction to fans of Early Music, and a lengthy one to literally everyone else. Even classical music buffs who have heard of Bach’s works for the …read more

Printing Micron-Scale Benchies With Resin and Turmeric

Resin 3D printing has opened up a whole new scale of resolution for hackers, but the technology can go still finer; commercial micro-SLA and two-photon polymerization printers can print items …read more

WordStar Lives Again (and Again)

Word processors and editors are a funny thing. It doesn’t really matter what’s “best,” whatever that means. If you have finger memory built up for one program, it’s painful to …read more

ACEMAGIC Kron Mini K5 Review – Part 2: A $400 Intel Core 3 304 Wildcat Lake mini PC tested with Windows 11 Pro

After checking out the hardware of the ACEMAGIC Kron Mini K5 with an unboxing and a teardown in the first part of the review, we’ve now had time to test the Intel Core 3 304 Wildcat Lake mini PC in more depth with…

There’s Whole Computer Inside This Mouse

[Gadget Industry] bills it as “a PC inside a Mouse“, but that depends on your definition of a “PC”. This is a Personal Computer inside a mouse, yes, but there’s …read more

Can AI Now Design PCBs That Just Work?

With the recent release of its GPT-6 Astra model, OpenAI explicitly pushed the claim that it is capable of designing complete circuit boards in KiCad, starting from a provided schematic …read more

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