Aryan Poduri's book, "GOAT Coder," teaches children how to code through hands-on exercises and uncomplicated explanations.

AI tools promise that anyone can build apps, so I put that claim to the test. After a few minor bumps, I built a custom ...

A retro-friendly YouTube Poop (YTP) generator targeted at older Windows (XP / Vista / 7) and legacy Python (2.7 recommended; Python 3.4–3.7 workable). This release collects the full feature set, ...

Laptop batteries can be a bit of a mystery. You’ve been told when you bought your laptop that its battery can last a certain length of time, but can it really last that long? You don’t have to sit on ...

Eeny, meeny, miny, mo, catch a tiger by the toe – so the rhyme goes. But even children know that counting-out rhymes like this are no help at making a truly random choice. Perhaps you remember when ...

My little theory is that the concept of “imprinting” in psychology can just as easily be applied to programming: Much as a baby goose decides that the first moving life-form it encounters is its ...

Jean-Charles Pelland's work has been made possible by financial support from the ‘QUANTA: Evolution of Cognitive Tools for Quantification’ project, which has received funding from the European ...

A century ago, the strange behavior of atoms and elementary particles led physicists to formulate a new theory of nature. That theory, quantum mechanics, found immediate success, proving its worth ...

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A Michigan woman won big in her local Powerball drawing after asking AI to pick her numbers. Tammy Carvey, 45, won $100,000 in September’s $1.787 billion Powerball jackpot after having ChatGPT ...

Adding numbers to your passwords makes them more secure. In fact, most sites and services these days require alphanumeric passwords at the very least. Some people ...

We did an informal poll around the Hackaday bunker and decided that, for most of us, our favorite programming language is solder. However, [Stephen Cass] over at IEEE Spectrum released their annual ...