Hacker News Reader

For regular mortals the cheapest way to get Mathematica is to get Raspberry Pi. Raspbian has Mathematica in its repo (sudo apt install wolfram-engine). The performance is not great but maybe the latest RPi 4 will help.

View on HN

If you don't care about the UI and enjoy a command line version (or scripting with your favorite editor), you can know install the Wolfram engine for free: https://www.wolfram.com/engine/

Wow! Now that's a life hack! :-)

And you can get a cluster of these for a price of one PC. Awesome!

It will only have the performance of one PC though. ;)

Reply on news.ycombinator.com