Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
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HN comment orderYou may want to check out: The whole calculator running in a browser, thanks to emscripten : https://www.numworks.com/simulator/ An interactive PCB viewer, in the browser again : https://www.numworks.com/resources/engineering/hardware/elec... Full schematics https://www.numworks.com/resources/engineering/hardware/elec... And of course the whole source code to the operating system, https://github.com/numworks/epsilon
I have one of these. It’s a nice little device but it falls a bit short in one key area: it lacks a CAS (Computer Algebra System) for symbolic calculations. That functionality was available in an earlier release of the software (Epsilon) but it was at best rather rudimentary. I’ve flashed Omega (a fork of Epsilon that preserves the rudimentary symbolic capabilities of earlier Epsilon) which also allows running third-party apps (including Xcas). You can check it out here: https://getomega.dev…
Mods, please correct the editorialized and wrong title. NumWorks isn't open source and never was. What it is is source-available, because the source is available. Or at least it still was available the last time I looked at it. NumWorks used to be fun because it had an unlocked bootloader, allowing users to download their own software onto the calculator. But then they did a face-heel turn. To NumWorks' credit, I'm sure the UI is still miles ahead of Texas…
I've seen this type of thing pop up before, usually as a small linux computer running octave
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 3
- Total points
- 432
- Total comments
- 184
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-08-29 | Numworks: The graphing calculator that makes learning math easier | sbergot | 4 | 1 |
| 2017-08-29 | New open source graphing calculator | Jyaif | 5 | 2 |
| 2017-09-05 | An open scientific calculator for high school | Aissen | 2 | 1 |
| 2017-09-06 | Hackable scientific calculator | Aissen | 1 | 0 |
| 2017-09-28 | Show HN: Open source graphing calculator | ChuckMcM | 3 | 1 |
| 2018-09-23 | Numworks: open-source, Python-compatible handheld graphing calculatorFirst breakout · Best thread | 0xb100db1ade | 158 | 68 |
| 2020-02-04 | NumWorks – A graphing calculator that runs Python | justadudeama | 2 | 0 |
| 2021-05-12 | NumWorks – An open source Graphing Calculator | ivolimmen | 129 | 72 |
| 2022-08-26 | NumWorks: An open-source graphing calculator (with Python and Rust support)Latest 20+ point return | semenko | 128 | 39 |
