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I've been using it for years after struggling missing the windows 2000 calculator.", "context": "", "use_case": "calculator", "switched_from": "", "story": "SpeedCrunch 1.1"}, {"id": 803603841, "item_id": 50225240, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50225240", "by": "jiehong", "date": "2026-10-24", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I used to use it quite a bit", "excerpt": "List of changes for this calculator [0]. I used to use it quite a bit, but I now gravitate towards numbat instead [1]. [0]: https://www.speedcrunch.org/download.html [1]: https://github.com/sharkdp/numbat", "context": "", "use_case": "calculator", "switched_from": "", "story": "SpeedCrunch 1.1"}]}