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/

Source: Jez Timms, Unsplash
" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/first-virtual-meeting-1200.jpg?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/first-virtual-meeting-1200.jpg?w=800" tabindex="0" role="button">Would you believe that the first large-scale virtual meeting happened as early as 1916? More than a century before Zoom meetings became just another weekday burden, the American Institute of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/16/worlds-first-virtual-meeting-5100-engineers-phoned-in/)

Ethernet From First Principles
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/16/ethernet-from-first-principles/

For someone programming in a high-level language like Python, or even for people who interact primarily with their operating system and the software running on it, it can seem like …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/16/ethernet-from-first-principles/)

Open Source Universal ROM Programmer Grows Up
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/16/open-source-universal-rom-programmer-grows-up/

When we first looked at [Anders Nielsen’s] EEPROM programmer project, it was nice but needed some software and manual intervention and had some limitations on the parts you could program. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/16/open-source-universal-rom-programmer-grows-up/)

Register Renaming: The Art of Parallel Processing
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/16/register-renaming-the-art-of-parallel-processing/

Source: Christian Wiediger, Unsplash
" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/register-renaming-1200.jpg?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/register-renaming-1200.jpg?w=800" tabindex="0" role="button">In the quest for faster computing, modern CPUs have turned to innovative techniques to optimize instruction execution. One such technique, register renaming, is a crucial component that helps us achieve …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/16/register-renaming-the-art-of-parallel-processing/)

Classic LED Bubble Displays Ride Again
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/17/classic-led-bubble-displays-ride-again/

Hewlett-Packard used to make some pretty cool LED displays, many of which appeared in their iconic pocket calculators back in the 1970s and 1980s. [Upir] tracked down some of these …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/17/classic-led-bubble-displays-ride-again/)

A Handheld Gaming PC With Steam Deck Vibes
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/17/a-handheld-gaming-pc-with-steam-deck-vibes/