RetroOct 27Meatloaf, an ESP32 on a Commodore 64's IEC serial port, loads programs from any URL and presents them as a period floppy drive
SoftwareOct 27Drew DeVault Forked Vim at the Last Patch Before Vim9 Script to Make Vim Classic, an Editor Maintained With No Generative AI
SoftwareOct 27MeshLive, an open-source Android app, livestreams video phone to phone over Bluetooth with no internet, each phone passing it on about 20 metres
HardwareOct 27Hugging Face's $399 Microduck learned to walk, skate and stand itself back up in a simulator, and its code is on GitHub
SoftwareOct 27Kristian Duske Built TrenchBroom So He Could Make Quake Maps Again. He Never Made Another One.
Hacks & BuildsOct 27Bot Reborn Gives a $4 Silverlit Toy Robot 200 ms Reflexes With a 0.8B Qwen Model That Picks a Move Instead of Writing a Word
SoftwareOct 26Debut rebuilds macOS Command-Tab around Spaces, and lets you switch desktops without the slide
AIOct 26Marco Franzon's print3d Has an AI Agent Measure a Clothes Peg From a Museum Photo and Hand You a Bambu Lab Print File
SoftwareOct 25HatchZip extracts archives from the end and cuts off each finished part, so a 180 GB game unpacks on a nearly full disk
RetroOct 25Hibernate started the morning after Gavin King lost the argument, and it shipped under his employer's package name
SoftwareOct 25Bottles creator Mirko Brombin's Raven plays the Windows kernel on Linux, so Windows installers run as they are
SoftwareOct 25Snapintosh boots Apple's own macOS 27 kernel on an ASUS Snapdragon X2 Elite laptop, with a Metal driver written from scratch
SoftwareOct 25ZacOS 9 redraws the whole Mac OS 9 desktop for Debian Linux, with a SheepShaver for the real classic apps
GamingOct 25One Must Fall 2097 Remastered Rebuilds the 1994 Robot Fighter in TypeScript and WebGL, With F2 Swapping VGA and HD Mid-Fight
AIOct 25Latch is one script tag that hands AI browsers your site's search box, cart button and forms as WebMCP tools
SoftwareOct 24Death Plan Switch emails solo devs once a week, and after 144 hours of silence it sends their pre-written messages
AIOct 23Ponytail, a free 'laziest senior dev' prompt for Claude Code and other coding agents, cut a 335-line date picker to 10 lines by using the browser's own calendar
HardwareOct 23Nick Steele Reverse-Engineered Digital Calipers Into an Open-Source $32 Linear Encoder, Gapped With Two Layers of Kapton Tape
GamingOct 23REA Let Codex Rebuild 1996's DX-Ball From the .exe, and All 270 Functions Compile Back Byte for Byte
Hacks & BuildsOct 23Wes Bos scanned his office with an iPhone, had Codex rebuild it in Three.js, then made every filament spool throwable
Hacks & BuildsOct 23Aaron Christophel's Aspire PIXO Vape Now Runs DOOM on Its Own Chip, on an Engine Built for a 32 KB Clamp Meter
SoftwareOct 23Concat, a free open-source CapCut replacement, ships an MCP server so Claude can cut your video on your own machine
Hacks & BuildsOct 23HackiOS boots real iOS 16.5 on a POCO X5 Pro from RAM, and a reboot puts Android back
