We’ll be honest. Measuring Forth words per second doesn’t seem like a great benchmark since a Forth word could be very simple or quite complex. But we think the real …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/15/risc-v-pushes-400-million-forth-words-per-second/)

BASIC Co-Inventor Thomas Kurtz Has Passed Away
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/15/basic-co-inventor-thomas-kurtz-has-passed-away/

It’s with sadness that we note the passing of Thomas E. Kurtz, on November 12th. He was co-inventor of the BASIC programming language back in the 1960s, and though his …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/15/basic-co-inventor-thomas-kurtz-has-passed-away/)

It’s a Soldering Iron! It’s A Multimeter! Relax! It’s Both!
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/15/its-a-soldering-iron-its-a-multimeter-relax-its-both/

Imagine this. A young person comes to you wanting to get started in the electronic hobby. They ask what five things should they buy to get started. Make your list. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/15/its-a-soldering-iron-its-a-multimeter-relax-its-both/)

WiFi Status Indicator Keeps Eye on the Network
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/16/wifi-status-indicator-keeps-eye-on-the-network/

These days, most of us take the instant availability of a high-speed link to the Internet for granted. But despite all of the latest technology, things still occasionally go pear-shaped …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/16/wifi-status-indicator-keeps-eye-on-the-network/)

Spotted at Supercon: Glowtape Wearable Display
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/16/spotted-at-supercon-glowtape-wearable-display/

We’re big fans of unusual timepieces here at Hackaday, so it didn’t take long before somebody called our attention to the gloriously luminescent watch that [Henner Zeller] was wearing at …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/16/spotted-at-supercon-glowtape-wearable-display/)

Hackers, Patents, and 3D Printing
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/16/hackers-patents-and-3d-printing/

Last week, we ran a post about a slightly controversial video that claimed that a particular 3D-printing slicing strategy was tied up by a patent troll. We’re absolutely not lawyers …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/16/hackers-patents-and-3d-printing/)

Playing Chess Against LLMs and the Mystery of Instruct Models
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/16/playing-chess-against-llms-and-the-mystery-of-instruct-models/

At first glance, trying to play chess against a large language model (LLM) seems like a daft idea, as its weighted nodes have, at most, been trained on some chess-adjacent …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/16/playing-chess-against-llms-and-the-mystery-of-instruct-models/)

World’s First Virtual Meeting: 5,100 Engineers Phoned In
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/16/worlds-first-virtual-meeting-5100-engineers-phoned-in/