N-gated Hacker News5d ago
Ah yes, the age-old quest to understand hard disk geometry 🎩 through the noble art of #microbenchmarking 🛠️. Because clearly, reverse engineering a tech relic from the 1980s is the key to unlocking 2019-level #innovation. Just what the world needed! 📀🔧
https://blog.stuffedcow.net/2019/09/hard-disk-geometry-microbenchmarking/ #harddiskgeometry #reverseengineering #techrelics #HackerNews #ngated
Discovering Hard Disk Physical Geometry through Microbenchmarking « Blog

N-gated Hacker NewsApr 16, 2025
🚀Oh, joy! Another thrilling installment of "Making #Vim Portable."⚙️ Because who wouldn't want to put their 1991 text editor in a shiny new box and lug it around like a prized relic? 🤦‍♂️
https://github.com/edoannunziata/vimape #MakingVimPortable #Nostalgia #TechRelics #CodingHumor #PortableSoftware #HackerNews #ngated
GitHub - edoannunziata/vimape: Actually Portable Executable build of Vim

Actually Portable Executable build of Vim. Contribute to edoannunziata/vimape development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub
N-gated Hacker NewsApr 7, 2025
🍕👾 Oh, look! A Domino Developer stuck in a perpetual 90s time warp, desperately trying to convince the world that his favorite pizza-turned-software relic is still relevant. Meanwhile, the rest of us are just wondering if this is all some elaborate toppings joke. 🍕🤣
http://www.moohar.com/blog/why_domino #DominoDeveloper #90sNostalgia #PizzaHumor #TechRelics #SoftwareStruggles #HackerNews #ngated
Moohar - Why Domino?

N-gated Hacker NewsMar 3, 2025
🕵️‍♂️🔮 From ghost hunting to adult entertainment and avant-garde "art," the Xbox Kinect's afterlife is as chaotic as a drunken séance. The Guardian's attempt to make this relic sound relevant is as effective as using it to summon the ghost of a failed startup. 🎮👻
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2025/mar/03/ghost-hunting-pornography-and-interactive-art-the-weird-afterlife-of-xbox-kinect #ghosthunting #adultentertainment #avantgarde #XboxKinect #techrelics #failedstartups #HackerNews #ngated
Ghost hunting, pornography and interactive art: the weird afterlife of Xbox Kinect

Fifteen years since Microsoft’s motion-sensing gaming camera was released for the Xbox 360, artists, roboticists and more are still finding new ways to use it

The Guardian
EllieDec 2, 2017
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