2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (35+ words) Among all the machines of the 8-bit home computer era which booted straight to a BASIC prompt, there were a very few that went their own way with another language. The Jupiter Ace springs immediately......

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (302+ words) Hackaday This is going to be a very personal question, because when you’re talking cloud vs local anything, it comes down to this: how much are you willing to pay for independence? The local option might save you long…...

5+ day, 5+ min ago   (34+ words) The Philips PM5139 is not famous. It won no great victories on the battlefield, nor was instrumental in changing the political landscape. It was just a useful function generator that you might find on......

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (30+ words) The progression of the web browser from a tool for simple static information browsing into a do-everything computing environment has been inexorable, with package after package making the jump. Today......

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (404+ words) Oftentimes, when we're using a microcontroller, we're whipping up some very specific code focused on executing a particular task. The device is set up to execute code that does exactly what we want wi......

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1068+ words) I’m an experienced programmer, and I’ve worked in many different languages. Sometimes being a programmer is a two-edged sword. You want to accomplish something, and you can do it easily -- but it......

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (36+ words) Disk Defragmenter was a wonderful utility that Microsoft included with Windows back in the day. Back then, you'd use it to theoretically speed up disk access. Today, you can run a fun simulation right......

2+ week, 15+ hour ago   (283+ words) Hackaday If you’re intending to transmit on the VHF band, you’re probably going to reach for a handheld or some kind of rackmount rig in your ham shack But you needn’t bother with all that complexity, when…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (275+ words) Hackaday Whether you like it or not, the use of LLMs to write code is kind of a big deal at the moment We’ve been asking ourselves what, if anything, this means for us here at Hackaday Should we…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (32+ words) [Matt Lenhard] has an interesting writeup explaining exactly how fraudsters offer access to cutting-edge AI models at a tenth of the price. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the secret is to get tokens for free......