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All The Best Computers Boot To… Python?
1+ day, 16+ 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......
Local LLMs Can Work Better Than Claude, At Least For Some
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (302+ words) Hackaday This is going to be a very personal question, because when youâre 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…...
Reverse Engineering The Philips PM5139
4+ day, 4+ hour 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......
It’s GNU Radio Companion, But In The Browser
4+ day, 16+ 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......
Decoding The NEC V20 Microcode ROM
4+ day, 16+ hour ago (35+ words) The NEC V20 is an Intel 8088-compatible processor that features the same use of microcode, though with its own characteristics. This makes it important to use this same microcode if your goal is to cr......
Sick Of Wayland Vs. Xorg? How About GEM?
4+ day, 16+ hour ago (37+ words) Between lawsuits from Apple, and Microsoft being Microsoft, Digital Research's GEM desktop for DOS never really had a chance. It did have another life on Atari home computers, but it's the DOS version......
The Different Ways To Look At Negative Resistance
5+ day, 1+ hour ago (32+ words) [lcamtuf] has an in-depth look at the concept of negative resistance that goes somewhat further than one might expect. Normally, as voltage across a resistance increases so too does the current. Negat......
A 1024 Byte Python Interpreter
5+ day, 15+ hour ago (156+ words) Hackaday Like many of us, [Austin] finds writing code satisfying â especially if it is challenging His latest challenge: shoehorn something that looks like Python into 512 bytes Ok, that didnât work out, but would you believe 1024 bytes of source…...
If At First You Don’t Succeed…
1+ week, 1+ day ago (37+ words) … at least document what failed and give the failure analysis a good effort. And then later on, you can “try, try again” or let someone else carry on with the work; they’ll have a good basis t......
Take Tool Photo, Generate Custom Gridfinity Bin
1+ week, 2+ day ago (30+ words) What if the organization and storage benefits of tool shadowing could be had and improved with a modular, semi-automated process? Tracefinity attempts that by generating custom Gridfinity bins from ph......