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Ask Hackaday: Do We Need a 21st Century Calculator?

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/05/14/ask-hackaday-do-we-need-a-21st-century-calculator/

Ask Hackaday: Do We Need a 21st Century Calculator? https://hackaday.com/2026/05/14/ask-hackaday-do-we-need-a-21st-century-calculator/
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Ask Hackaday: Do We Need A 21st Century Calculator?

Three resistors in parallel: 4.7 k,Ω 22 kΩ, and 3.3 kΩ. Quick! What’s the equivalent value? You can estimate it, of course, but if you want the actual 1.8 kΩ (approximately) answer, you proba…

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13 Apr 2

Ask Hackaday: How Much Compute is Enough? https://hackaday.com/2026/04/02/ask-hackaday-how-much-compute-is-enough/
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Ask Hackaday: How Much Compute Is Enough?

Over the history of this business, a lot of people have foreseen limits that look rather silly in hindsight– in 1943, IBM President Thomas Watson declared that “I think there is a world marke…

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Hackaday [Unofficial]Apr 2

Ask Hackaday: How Much Compute is Enough?

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/04/02/ask-hackaday-how-much-compute-is-enough/

Hackaday [Unofficial]Mar 16

Ask Hackaday: Wired or Wireless Headphones?

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13 Mar 16

Ask Hackaday: Wired or Wireless Headphones? https://hackaday.com/2026/03/16/ask-hackaday-wired-or-wireless-headphones/
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Ask Hackaday: Wired Or Wireless Headphones?

They say you should never throw out old clothes because they will come back in style one day. Maybe they are right. We noted in a recent BBC post that, apparently, wired headphones are making a com…

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13 Mar 9

Ask Hackaday: What Will An LLM Be Good For In The Plateau of Productivity? https://hackaday.com/2026/03/09/ask-hackaday-what-will-an-llm-be-good-for-in-the-plateau-of-productivity/
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Ask Hackaday: What Will An LLM Be Good For In The Plateau Of Productivity?

A friend of mine has been a software developer for most of the last five decades, and has worked with everything from 1960s mainframes to the machines of today. She recently tried AI coding tools t…

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Hackaday [Unofficial]Mar 9

Ask Hackaday: What Will An LLM Be Good For In The Plateau of Productivity?

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/03/09/ask-hackaday-what-will-an-llm-be-good-for-in-the-plateau-of-productivity/

Hackaday [Unofficial]Feb 9

Ask Hackaday: How Do You Detect Hidden Cameras?

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/02/09/ask-hackaday-how-do-you-detect-hidden-cameras/

13 Feb 9

Ask Hackaday: How Do You Detect Hidden Cameras? https://hackaday.com/2026/02/09/ask-hackaday-how-do-you-detect-hidden-cameras/
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Ask Hackaday: How Do You Detect Hidden Cameras?

The BBC recently published an exposé revealing that some Chinese subscription sites charge for access to their network of hundreds of hidden cameras in hotel rooms. Of course, this is presumably wi…

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