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I Can’t Write My Name in Unicode (modelviewculture.com) |
| recommended by 3 users | 2015 | 610 points by luu | original thread | |
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Donald Knuth – The Patron Saint of Yak Shaves (yakshav.es) |
| recommended by 3 users | 2017 | 93 points by ingve | original thread | |
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Reversing Sinclair's amazing 1974 calculator hack - half the ROM of the HP-35 (files.righto.com) |
| recommended by 2 users | 2013 | 303 points by kens | original thread | |
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Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine (longnow.org) |
| recommended by 2 users | 2008 | 59 points by ca98am79 | original thread | |
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8088 MPH: We Break All Your Emulators (trixter.oldskool.org) |
| recommended by 2 users | 2015 | 319 points by drv | original thread | |
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Tell HN: My 'mystery project': I couldn't sleep, so I backed up GeoCities (reocities.com) |
| recommended by 2 users | 2009 | 250 points by jacquesm | original thread | |
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Enjoyed Jason Scott’s BBS documentary (changelog.complete.org) |
| recommended by 2 users | 2022 | 115 points by edward | original thread | |
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Peter Tattam created Trumpet Winsock and got very little: Let's set things right |
| recommended by 2 users | 2011 | 469 points by jacques_chester | original thread | |
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The Summer Of 1960 (Time Spent with don knuth) (ed-thelen.org) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2011 | 41 points by acqq | original thread | |
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“Don't know why, but I find that a bit sad. A bit like not knowing about _why.” (comment) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2011 | ColinWright on: Ward is doing it again | original thread | |
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Larry Tesler Has Died (gizmodo.com) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2020 | 1346 points by drallison | original thread | |
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Sega Saturn CD Cracked after 20 Years (youtube.com) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2016 | 1126 points by flurpitude | original thread | |
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The Sixth Stage of Grief Is Retro-Computing (medium.com) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2014 | 799 points by daddy_drank | original thread | |
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Why did I spend 1.5 months creating a Gameboy emulator? (2017) (blog.rekawek.eu) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2018 | 617 points by tosh | original thread | |
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Margaret Hamilton, lead software engineer, Project Apollo (threefingeredfox.net) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2014 | 485 points by adrianhoward | original thread | |
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Pilotwings demos act differently depending on when the cartridge was made (twitter.com) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2019 | 460 points by ilamont | original thread | |
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Show HN: A zoomable, searchable archive of BYTE magazine (byte.tsundoku.io) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2025 | 423 points by chromy | original thread | |
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The UTF-8-Everywhere Manifesto (utf8everywhere.org) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2012 | 381 points by bearpool | original thread | |
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Did you ever need to run a piece of C# code on Windows 3.11? (twitter.com) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2020 | 261 points by lelf | original thread | |
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Anti-foreword to the Unix haters handbook by dmr (pastebin.com) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2011 | 246 points by noufalibrahim | original thread | |
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The history of UTF-8 as told by Rob Pike (2003) (doc.cat-v.org) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2021 | 244 points by quyleanh | original thread | |
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The Rise and Fall of the Gopher Protocol (minnpost.com) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2016 | 235 points by lindner | original thread | |
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A few words on Doug Engelbart (2013) (worrydream.com) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2018 | 203 points by mpweiher | original thread | |
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Why isn't the external link symbol in Unicode? (2018) (dafoster.net) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2020 | 167 points by networked | original thread | |
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Applesauce – Make exact images of copy-protected Apple II floppy disks (wiki.reactivemicro.com) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2018 | 109 points by timmytokyo | original thread | |
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The Complete Spectrum ROM Disassembly (speccy.xyz) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2020 | 108 points by MindGods | original thread | |
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The story of Mel (1983) (pbm.com) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2009 | 80 points by vaksel | original thread | |
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Demonstration of the Xerox PARC Cedar integrated environment (2019) [video] (youtube.com) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2020 | 52 points by pmarin | original thread | |
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Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine (kurzweilai.net) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2009 | 33 points by vinutheraj | original thread | |
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Turing Award winner and former Oxford professor Tony Hoare passed away (blog.computationalcomplexity.org) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2026 | 15 points by speckx | original thread | |
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