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ralc
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Show HN: All desktop calculators are wrong, so I had to build my own
I love this, great idea! I don't need the majority of the fancy features but I can see the use case for them.
I built my own calculator app a while ago [0]. I've used an HP-41C as my main calculator for many years and I have not yet found a good RPN calculator app available on ALL platforms. I wanted a simple calculator that felt like an HP-41C that I can use on my phone + all desktop operating systems and get the same experience.
[0] https://github.com/shamus03/ralc (if you're on desktop, it looks much better if you install it as a PWA and resize to your preferred size)
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Ralc - an RPN calculator for desktop + mobile
The code is available on GitHub - please feel free to open an issue if you find a bug, want more functions, have any suggestions, etc.
insect
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Show HN: Numbat – A programming language with physical dimensions as types
Apparently this replaces https://github.com/sharkdp/insect
- Insect – high precision scientific calculator with support for physical units
- The Icculus Microgrant is giving out 250 dollar grants to open source projects, please brag about your project(s) in this thread so I can see them!
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What projects do you wish there was a self hosted version of
You might like https://insect.sh/ ;)
- Show HN: I made a web-based notepad with a built in unit calculator
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ka: a calculator language for the command line
For the record I use insect.
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Looking to build a plugin for logseq. Your problems needed!
https://github.com/sharkdp/insect seems to be somewhat similar, but it's mostly for physical units. However, it's the only opensource one that is embeddable.
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Ask HN: Do you use a physical calculator in your day job, and why?
Insect: https://github.com/sharkdp/insect
It is a bit slow but has decent features, including some physical units support.
I set up Tilda (or another Guake equivalent; I tried a bunch of them and can’t remember on which I settled in the end) to run it automatically when a terminal is opened, when pressing Scroll Lock. It’s quite neat: when I need to do a quick calculation, I just hit Scroll Lock, which spawns a drop down terminal with the focus; then type whatever I want to calculate; then control-D to dismiss the drop down terminal and I am back in whatever I was doing without moving either hand off the keyboard.
I do more or less the same thing on my Mac with Alfred.
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Kagi Search – Public Beta
I'm in the same boat and will pay for Kagi, though I have a different interaction with a search engine and thought you might like the counterpoint. Notably, I don't use Google for most of what you described:
Translation: I use DeepL instead (google is doing poorly on Asian languages)
Conversion: not having much need for imperial but I use this for all unit conversion (though usually directly in my terminal): https://insect.sh/
Wikipedia: if I type Wikipedia+something my browser automatically use the wiki engine (chrome can do that too)
Word definition: on OSX I long press on the trackpad and the definition pops up (across languages, translation too for single words)
Lyrics: Spotify show them now! (admittedly that's a recent feature)
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anyone know a calculator that can count to unreasonably high numbers? I'm talking x*10^1000 and stuff??
insect.sh goes up to about 109 × 1015.
What are some alternatives?
numi - Beautiful calculator app for macOS
kalk - Scientific calculator with math syntax that supports user-defined variables and functions, complex numbers, and estimation of derivatives and integrals
duckduckgo-locales - Translation files for <a href="https://duckduckgo.com"> </a>
TRex - Copy any text on your screen, stop retyping.
in-line-calculator - 📟 an interface-less calculator for Windows
uom - Units of measurement -- type-safe zero-cost dimensional analysis
react-native-select-pro - React Native dropdown (select) component developed by Mobile Reality
Copyfish - Copy, paste and translate text from images, videos and PDFs with this free Chrome extension
macOCR - Get any text on your screen into your clipboard.
calc - C-style arbitrary precision calculator
libqalculate - Qalculate! library and CLI
unix-history-repo - Continuous Unix commit history from 1970 until today