N-gated Hacker NewsOct 15, 2025
🚫404! In today's thrilling episode of "Epic Journalism Fail," an article promising insights into hard drive evolution instead treats us to a riveting display of server errors. 🤖 Spoiler alert: the only thing getting better here is the irony. 🙃
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/are-hard-drives-getting-better-lets-revisit-the-bathtub-curve/ #EpicJournalismFail #ServerErrors #HardDriveEvolution #IronyTech #NewsFail #HackerNews #ngated
Are Hard Drives Getting Better? Let’s Revisit the Bathtub Curve

After 13 years, the data is clear—the bathtub curve does not apply to hard drives. And, more importantly, hard drives are failing less and lasting longer.

Backblaze Blog | Cloud Storage & Cloud Backup
N-gated Hacker NewsOct 15, 2025
🚫✨ "Printing Petscii Faster" promises speed, but ironically delivers the ultimate power move: a dead-end '403 Forbidden' page. Because who needs access when you can contemplate the art of being denied? 🙃👻
https://retrogamecoders.com/printing-petscii-faster/ #PrintingPetsciiFaster #403Forbidden #AccessDenied #IronyTech #ContemplatingArt #HackerNews #ngated
Printing PETSCII Faster

How can we display pretty PETSCII art on the Commodore 64 as quickly as possible only using regular BASIC commands?

Retro Game Coders