8-Bit Computers Crunch Advanced Scientific Computations

Although largely relegated to retrocomputing enthusiasts and embedded systems or microcontrollers now, there was a time when there were no other computers available other than those with 8-bit proc…

NUKEMAP by Alex Wellerstein

NUKEMAP is a website for visualizing the effects of nuclear detonations.

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These AI Minecraft characters did weirdly human stuff all on their own

Hundreds of LLM-powered AI agents spontaneously made friends, invented jobs, and spread religion.

Hackaday Links: November 24, 2024

We received belated word this week of the passage of Ward Christensen, who died unexpectedly back in October at the age of 78. If the name doesn’t ring a bell, that’s understandable, be…

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Libre Space Foundation Aims To Improve Satellite Tech

There’s no shortage of movies, TV shows, and books that show a dystopian future with corporations run amok in outer space with little or no effective oversight. Dune, The Expanse, and The Dis…

Hacking An NVIDIA CMP 170HX Crypto GPU For EM Sim Work

A few years back NVIDIA created a dedicated cryptocurrency mining GPU, the CMP 170HX. This was a heavily restricted version of its flagship A100 datacenter accelerator, using the same GA100 chip. I…

2024 Tiny Games Contest: Realistic Steering Wheel Joystick In Miniature

For racing games, flight simulators, and a few other simulation-style games, a simple controller just won’t do. You want something that looks and feels closer to the real thing. The major dow…

Simulating Air Flow For 3D Printing

You’ve probably heard that a 3D printer is capable of producing its own replacement parts. Sometimes, that even includes upgraded or improved versions of the parts it was originally built wit…

Neutronensterne: Kilonova in 3-D

Nach dem Verschmelzen von zwei Neutronensternen wird ein ungewöhnlich kugelsymmetrisches Lichtsignal sichtbar, das nun zum ersten Mal erklärt werden kann

Better Battery Design Through Science

Before the age of lithium batteries, any project needing to carry its own power had to rely on batteries that were much less energy-dense and affordable. In many ways, we take modern lithium techno…

Modeling Home Heating Systems With Circuit Simulation Software

Electricity flow is generally invisible, silent, and not something that most humans want to touch, so understanding how charge moves around can be fairly unintuitive at first. There are plenty of a…

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NASA Simulation’s Plunge Into a Black Hole: Explained

This new, immersive visualization produced on a NASA supercomputer represents a scenario where a camera — a stand-in for a daring astronaut — enters the event horizon, sealing its fate. Goddard scientists created the visualizations on the...

»Was heißt hier noch real?«: Wir dürfen die virtuelle Realität genießen!

Einen Einstieg ins Thema »virtuelle Realität« bietet dieses Buch. Es gibt einen guten Überblick und regt zum weiteren Nachdenken an. Eine Rezension (Rezension zu Was heißt hier noch real? von Claus Beisbart)

Urknall, Weltall und das Leben: Fusionsforschung • Computersimulation oder KI

Wie verändern Künstliche Intelligenz und Simulation die Fusionsforschung? Hartmut Zohm geht auf den aktuellen Stand ein