One File, Six Formats: Just Change The Extension - Normally, if you change a file’s extension in Windows, it doesn’t do anything posi... - https://hackaday.com/2025/08/08/one-file-six-formats-just-change-the-extension/ #softwarehacks #fileformats #fileformat #mp4 #pdf #png

Jenny’s Daily Drivers: FreeDOS 1.4 - When I was a student, I was a diehard Commodore Amiga user, having upgraded to an ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/08/06/jennys-daily-drivers-freedos-1-4/ #hackadaycolumns #computerhacks #softwarehacks #freedos #16bit #dos

2025 One Hertz Challenge: Analog Clock for Microsoft Windows - Our hacker [glgorman] sent in their submission for the One Hertz Challenge: an ana... - https://hackaday.com/2025/08/04/2025-one-hertz-challenge-analog-clock-for-microsoft-windows/ #microsoftwindows #softwarehacks #analogclock #clockhacks

The LumenPnP Pasting Utility: Never Buy Solder Stencils Again? - Over on his YouTube channel the vivacious [Stephen Hawes] tells us that we never n... - https://hackaday.com/2025/07/30/the-lumenpnp-pasting-utility-never-buy-solder-stencils-again/ #fiducialcalibration #solderpasteextruder #3dprinterhacks #solderstencils #softwarehacks #pickandplace #videohacks #toolhacks #cnchacks #hardware #pcbhacks #lumenpnp

Everyone’s Invited to the Copyparty - Setting up a file server can be intimidating to the uninitiated. There are many se... - https://hackaday.com/2025/07/30/everyones-invited-to-the-copyparty/ #softwarehacks #networkhacks #fileserver #nas

Numbers Station Simulator, Right In Your Browser - Do you find an odd comfort in the uncanny, regular intonations of a Numbers Statio... - https://hackaday.com/2025/07/29/numbers-station-simulator-right-in-your-browser/ #numbersstation #softwarehacks #webspeechapi #art #tts

Software Defined Retro ROMs - Here’s something fun from our hacker [Piers]: Software Defined ROMs.
In this serie... - https://hackaday.com/2025/07/19/software-defined-retro-roms/ #softwaredefinedrom #microcontrollers #retrocomputing #computerhacks #softwarehacks #2316romchip #2332romchip #2364romchip #hardware #pcbhacks #arm

Improve Your KiCad Productivity With These Considered Shortcut Keys - Over on his YouTube channel [Pat Deegan] from Psychogenic Technologies shows us tw... - https://hackaday.com/2025/07/17/improve-your-kicad-productivity-with-these-considered-shortcut-keys/ #keyboardshortcuts #schematiccapture #softwarehacks #pcblayout #pcbhacks #keymaps #kicad

Embedded USB Debug for Snapdragon - According to [Casey Connolly], Qualcomm’s release of how to interact with their em... - https://hackaday.com/2025/07/10/embedded-usb-debug-for-snapdragon/ #softwaredevelopment #softwarehacks #linuxhacks #snapdragon #debugging #qualcomm #swd

Reservoir Sampling, or How to Sample Sets of Unknown Size https://hackaday.com/2025/07/02/reservoir-sampling-or-how-to-sample-sets-of-unknown-size/ #reservoirsampling #SoftwareHacks #interactive #statistics #sampling #software

Reservoir Sampling, or How to Sample Sets of Unknown Size - Selecting a random sample from a set is simple. But what about selecting a fair ra... - https://hackaday.com/2025/07/02/reservoir-sampling-or-how-to-sample-sets-of-unknown-size/ #reservoirsampling #softwarehacks #interactive #statistics #sampling #software

Subpixel Rendering For Impossibly Small Terminal Text - When it comes to text, how small is too small? The experts say a six point font is... - https://hackaday.com/2025/07/02/subpixel-rendering-for-impossibly-small-terminal-text/ #subpixelrendering #softwarehacks #classichacks #pixelfont #subpixel

Making GameCube Keyboard Controller Work with Animal Crossing - [Hunter Irving] is a talented hacker with a wicked sense of humor, and he has writ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/06/26/making-gamecube-keyboard-controller-work-with-animal-crossing/ #homeentertainmenthacks #softwaredevelopment #reverseengineering #keyboardcontroller #microcontrollers #peripheralshacks #3dprinterhacks #retrocomputing #animalcrossing #nintendohacks #softwarehacks #raspberrypi #hardware #gamecube #games

Minecraft Clone Manages With Nothing But HTML + CSS - Can a 3D Minecraft implementation be done entirely in CSS and HTML, without a sing... - https://hackaday.com/2025/06/25/minecraft-clone-manages-with-nothing-but-html-css/ #softwarehacks #minecraft #html #css

Video Game Preservation Through Decompilation - Unlike computer games, which smoothly and continuously evolved along with the hard... - https://hackaday.com/2025/06/23/video-game-preservation-through-decompilation/ #reverseengineering #hackadaycolumns #softwarehacks #decompilation #classicgames #decompile #emulation #games

Visual Code Generator to End All Generators - QR codes are something that we all take for granted in this day and age. There are... - https://hackaday.com/2025/06/23/visual-code-generator-to-end-all-generators/ #barcodehacking #barcodescanner #softwarehacks #organization #qrcodes #webapp

Converting an E-Paper Photo Frame into Weather Map - Here’s a great hack sent in to us from [Simon]. He uses an e-paper photo frame as ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/06/21/converting-an-e-paper-photo-frame-into-weather-map/ #microcontrollers #raspberrypipico #softwarehacks #raspberrypi #weathermap #techhacks #hardware #e-paper #e-ink #art

Ben Eater Makes Computer Noises - When [Ben Eater] talks, hackers everywhere listen. In his latest video [Ben] shows... - https://hackaday.com/2025/06/19/ben-eater-makes-computer-noises/ #w65c22versatileinterfaceadapter #softwaredevelopment #6502microprocessor #digitalaudiohacks #microcontrollers #retrocomputing #computernoises #softwarehacks #hardware #beneater

A Gentle Introduction to Ncurses for the Terminally Impatient - Considered by many to be just a dull output for sequential text, the command-line ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/06/17/a-gentle-introduction-to-ncurses-for-the-terminally-impatient/ #softwaredevelopment #softwarehacks #commandline #featured #interest #terminal #ncurses #cli

How Discord Was Ported to Windows 95 and NT 3.1 - On the desktop, most people use the official HTML and JavaScript-based client for ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/06/17/how-discord-was-ported-to-windows-95-and-nt-3-1/ #softwarehacks #msnmessenger #windows95 #discord