2026-08-24 Discoveries

A website for debloated open source alternatives

open-source replacements for bloated vendor software

My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code quality

Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive

AI Chip Architectures

A look at AI Chip Architectures. NVIDIA, AMD, TPUs, Trainium, Groq, Cerebras.

Hackaday Links: August 23, 2026

We’ll start this week off with some disappointing, though not entirely unexpected, news — the ambitious commercial mission to save NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is officially a bust. The …

Using the Basic SNES Hardware to Play Minecraft

After previously putting a very basic version of Minecraft on the Game Boy Color, [Tobi] decided to have some fun and port that version also to the Super Nintendo (SNES), …

Yattayo

A physical slider to-do board, faithfully rebuilt in 3D

Making LEDs in the Home Fab

Impressive as it most certainly is when an amateur fabricates a semiconductor, most of the projects we’ve seen are more demonstrations than workable chips. [Dr. Semiconductor], however, is going much …

Local Music Organizer for Mac

Ultimate toolkit for local Apple Music library maintenance

Wi-Fi 8 is the first wireless upgrade in years that isn't chasing speed

Wi-Fi has been getting faster with every iteration... on paper. But Wi-Fi 8 is finally focusing on what matters, and it's the upgrade we needed.

What Is a Harness?

An agent harness is a piece of software that provides an environment for an AI model to operate within.

Claude Academy

The Official Learning Hub by Anthropic

How I find problems to solve as a staff engineer

How listening broadly turns everyday problems into useful project ideas.

How Complex Systems Fail (1998)