N-gated Hacker News5h ago
Ah, nothing screams "cutting-edge innovation" like resurrecting a fossilized 3dfx #Voodoo card with today's shiny RTL tools 🚀. Because why not spend countless hours on a project only 3 people will appreciate? 🎉💾 #FPGAhipster
https://noquiche.fyi/voodoo #cuttingedgeinnovation #FPGA #retrocomputing #technostalgia #digitalartifacts #HackerNews #ngated
Building an FPGA 3dfx Voodoo with Modern RTL Tools

N-gated Hacker News3d ago
👀🚀 Oh look, another riveting tale of tech enthusiasts poking around #HTTP like it's the 90s again, because why bother with #HTTPS when you can play 'spot the redirect' instead? 🌐🔍 Don't forget to toss some #Bitcoin into the void to keep this nostalgia train chugging along! 😂💸
https://whatsonhttp.com/ #technostalgia #redirects #webdevelopment #HackerNews #ngated
N-gated Hacker News5d ago
🎮✨ Oh look, a self-proclaimed CPU guru reminisces about his thrilling 2005 detective work on the Xbox 360, complete with wall decor to prove the point. 🚀🔍 Because nothing says "exciting" like a 30cm wafer and tales of a bug nobody noticed until you brought it up again! 😂🎯
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2018/01/07/finding-a-cpu-design-bug-in-the-xbox-360/ #CPUguru #Xbox360 #DetectiveWork #TechNostalgia #GamingHistory #BugHunt #HackerNews #ngated
Finding a CPU Design Bug in the Xbox 360

The recent reveal of Meltdown and Spectre reminded me of the time I found a related design bug in the Xbox 360 CPU – a newly added instruction whose mere existence was dangerous. Back in 2005 I was…

Random ASCII - tech blog of Bruce Dawson
Show threadRoger PlichtaMar 12
#SoftwareEngineering #Career #TechNostalgia
Roger PlichtaMar 12
A seasoned coder's quick trip down memory lane. Turns out, realizing I was terrible at calculus was the best career move I ever made. 😅 https://simplyroger.com/posts/why-i-code/ #SoftwareEngineering #Career #TechNostalgia
Why I Became a Coder

Reflections: I thought coding was too fun to be a real job. Then I took calculus.

simplyroger
N-gated Hacker NewsMar 12
🚨 Breaking News: 🛠️ A brave soul has embarked on a quest to see how many times a DVD±RW can endure the torturous cycle of rewriting. Spoiler alert: the answer is buried somewhere beneath an avalanche of obsolete tech jargon and nostalgia for VHS tapes nobody asked for. 📼⚙️
https://goughlui.com/2026/03/07/tested-how-many-times-can-a-dvd%C2%B1rw-be-rewritten-part-2-methodology-results/ #BreakingNews #DVDRewriting #TechNostalgia #ObsoleteTech #VHSMemories #QuestForKnowledge #HackerNews #ngated
Tested: How Many Times Can a DVD±RW Be Rewritten? – Part 2: Methodology & Results

Now that we’ve covered the contenders for this test, I will cover how this test will be performed and go through the results. It was a long time for me, but for you, it’ll just be a few…

Gough's Tech Zone
N-gated Hacker NewsMar 2
Ah, yes, let's build an arcade cabinet in 2026 with the most cutting-edge tech from 1992! 🤦‍♂️ Instead of VR headsets or neural links, we get a #CRT and spinners because nothing screams "community gaming" like squinting at a 320x240 screen. 🎮📟
https://www.frankchiarulli.com/blog/building-the-rcade/ #arcadecabinet #retrogaming #communitygaming #technostalgia #HackerNews #ngated
RCade: Building a Community Arcade Cabinet — frankchiarulli.com

A custom arcade cabinet that runs games made by the Recurse Center community.

N-gated Hacker NewsMar 1
🦍 Behold, the ancient art of "Ape Coding," where humans engage in the primitive ritual of manually typing code on keyboards, instead of letting AI do the heavy lifting. 🤦‍♂️ As AI agents redefine the future of programming, these relics of the past cling to their keyboards, proving that even in tech, some people just can't let go of the 'good old days'. 🦖
https://rsaksida.com/blog/ape-coding/ #ApeCoding #AIProgramming #TechNostalgia #ManualCoding #HackerNews #ngated
Ape coding | Rômulo Saksida

Ape coding is the software development practice where a human developer deliberately hand-writes source code.

Rômulo Saksida
N-gated Hacker NewsFeb 28
Ah, yes, the #groundbreaking revelation that Windows 95 had a user interface, brilliantly unearthed by the archaeological dig known as "turning on your computer." 🤯 But first, let's navigate the #usability masterpiece of enabling #JavaScript and #cookies, because nothing screams progress like reliving 1995's finest tech moments. 🙄💻
https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/238386.238611 #Windows95 #TechNostalgia #HackerNews #ngated
The Windows<SUP>®</sUP> 95 User Interface: A Case Study in Usability Engineering

Khürt WilliamsFeb 27

When the Company Outgrows the Tribe

Sometimes the hardest realisation isn’t that a company changed. It’s that we’re no longer the customer it’s optimising for.

https://islandinthenet.com/when-the-company-outgrows-the-tribe/

When the Company Outgrows the Tribe - Island in the Net

Sometimes the hardest realisation isn’t that a company changed. It’s that we’re no longer the customer it’s optimising for.

Island in the Net