Original Half-Life is Free This Weekend to Celebrate 25th Anniversary

Valve has issued a 25th Anniversary Update for the original Half-Life alongside a new hour-long documentary celebrating the game.
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Hackaday Links: November 5, 2023

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As I write this, Supercon 2023 is in full swing down in Pasadena — 80 degrees and sunny at the moment, as opposed to 50 and pouring rain where I …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: November 5, 2023

Critical Steam Flaws Could Let Gamers to Crash Opponents’ Computers

Valve fixed critical bugs in its Steam gaming client, which is a platform for popular video games like Counter Strike: Global Offensive, Dota2 and Half Life. Continue reading Critical Steam Flaws Could Let Gamers to Crash Opponents’ Computers

Custom Nixies Perform When Cranked Up to 100,000 Hertz

With the popularity of Nixie clocks, we’d be forgiven for thinking that the glowing tubes are only good for applications with a stately pace of change. But we forget that before they became the must-have hobbyist accessory, Nixies were used in all kinds of scientific instruments, from frequency counters to …read more

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