This week Elliot Williams was joined by fellow Europe-based Hackaday staffer Jenny List, to record the Hackaday Podcast as the dusk settled on a damp spring evening. On the agenda first was robotic sport, as a set of bipedal robots competed in a Chinese half-marathon. Our new Robot overlords may have to wait a while […]
This week, Jonathan Bennett and Randal Schwartz chat with Allen Firstenberg about Google’s AI plans, Vibe Coding, and Open AI! What’s the deal with agentic AI, how close are we to Star Trek, and where does Open Source fit in? Watch to find out! https://prisoner.com/ http://spiders.com/ https://js.langchain.com/docs/introduction/ Did you know you can watch the live […]
When Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Al Williams need a break from writing posts, they hop on the podcast and talk about their favorite stories of the past week. Want to know what they were talking about? Listen in below and find out! In an unusual twist, a listener sent in the sound for this […]
This week, Jonathan Bennett chats with Herbert Wolverson and Frantisek Borsik about LibreQOS, Bufferbloat, and Dave Taht’s legacy. How did Dave figure out that Bufferbloat was the problem? And how did LibreQOS change the world? Watch to find out! Dave’s blog: https://blog.cerowrt.org http://the-edge.taht.net/ https://libreqos.io https://x.com/LibreQoS https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/ https://libreqos.io/2025/04/01/in-loving-memory-of-dave/ And Dave’s speech, Uncle Bill’s Helicopter seems especially […]
Join Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi as they talk about the best stories and hacks of the week. This episode starts off with a discussion of the Vintage Computer Festival East and Philadelphia Maker Faire — two incredible events that just so happened to be scheduled for the same weekend. From there the […]
This week, Hackaday’s Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met up across the (stupid, lousy) time zones to bring you the latest news, mystery sound, and of course, a big bunch of hacks from the previous week. Again, no news is good news. On What’s That Sound, Kristina didn’t get close at all, but at least had […]
This week, Jonathan Bennett chats with Bashonly about yt-dlp, the audio/video downloader that carries the torch from youtube-dl! Why is this a hard problem, and what does the future hold for this swiss-army knife of video downloading? Watch to find out! https://github.com/bashonly https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp https://discord.gg/H5MNcFW63r Did you know you can watch the live recording of the […]
It might not be Pi Day anymore, but Elliot and Dan got together for the approximately 100*Pi-th episode of the Podcast to run through the week’s coolest hacks. Ultrasound seemed to be one of the themes, with a deep dive into finding bugs with sonar as well as using sound to cut the cheese — […]
This week, Jonathan Bennett chats with Neal Gompa about Fedora 42 and KDE! What’s new, what’s coming, and why is flagship status such a big deal? Website: https://neal.gompa.dev/ GitHub Sponsors: https://github.com/sponsors/Conan-Kudo Neal’s business (Velocity Limitless): https://velocitylimitless.com/ Neal’s podcast (Sudo Show): https://tuxdigital.com/sudoshow Did you know you can watch the live recording of the show right on […]