Hacker News with Generative AI: Archive

1972 Unix V2 "Beta" Resurrected (tuhs.org)
Hi everyone, First-time poster here. Near the end of last year, I did some forensic analysis on the DMR tapes (https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Applications/Dennis_Tapes) and had some fun playing around with them. Warren forwarded a few of my emails to this list at the end of last year and the beginning of this year, but it was never my intention for him to be my messenger, so I'm posting here myself now.

Unix, History, Software, Operating Systems, Archive

425 points by henry_flower 17 days ago | 148 comments

Tristan Davey's Punch Card Archive (tristandavey.com)
Punched cards were once a ubiquitous part of accounting, data collection and early computing.

History, Computing, Data Science, Archive, Art

18 points by NaOH 18 days ago | 3 comments

UbuWeb – Founded 1996 (ubu.com)
A year ago, we decided to shutter UbuWeb. Not really shutter it, per se, but instead to consider it complete.

Web Design, Art, History, Archive

7 points by XzetaU8 31 days ago | 2 comments

CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025 (archive.org)
An archive of all CDC datasets uploaded to https://data.cdc.gov/browse before January 28th, 2025. Excludes corrupt datasets and data not publicly accessible.

Data, Public Health, Archive, CDC

7 points by Bengalilol 33 days ago | 1 comments

Finnish Wartime Photograph Archive (1939-1945) (sa-kuva.fi)
Type in search criteria and click on SELECT.

Photography, History, Finland, War, Archive

45 points by kocsonya 44 days ago | 13 comments

Nokia Design Archive (aalto.fi)
Archive materials are subject to a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. Please see HERE for attribution instructions.

Design, Archive, Nokia, Finland, Licensing

172 points by microflash 52 days ago | 58 comments

Chopstick sleeves as emissaries of Japanese typography and culture (letterformarchive.org)
Designer and educator Angie Wang deciphers a collection of over 500 sleeves recently donated to the Archive.

Japanese Typography, Culture, Design, Archive

134 points by NaOH 52 days ago | 17 comments

Show HN: Flash Kitty – Archive of Adobe/Macromedia Flash Movies from Flash Kit (gzalo.com)
Flash Kit was a popular community for Adobe/Macromedia Flash developers where developers shared their creative work.Unfortunately, the site was discontinued by its current owners, resulting in the loss of many submitted movies.

Web Development, Flash, Archive, Nostalgia

58 points by gzalo 117 days ago | 10 comments

BBC archive of 33,000 downloadable sound effects (bbcrewind.co.uk)

Sound Effects, Audio, BBC, Archive, Resources

5 points by gaws 157 days ago | 0 comments

Ask HN: Is there a wayback machine for HN? (ycombinator.com)
I‘d be curious to know the top topics from 5, 10 or 15 years ago. May be wrong but i feel we have been shifting a lot in the last years ..

Hacker News, Archive, Trends

8 points by HellDunkel 169 days ago | 4 comments

Cleaning up after WWII (2017) (wordpress.com)

History, Cleaning, Archive

95 points by dredmorbius 195 days ago | 24 comments

WordStar for DOS 7.0 Archive (sfwriter.com)

Software, Archive, DOS, Operating Systems, Word Processing

6 points by sohkamyung 215 days ago | 0 comments

ArchiveTeam Warrior (archiveteam.org)

Digital Preservation, Archive, Web Archiving

233 points by xnx 218 days ago | 67 comments

How to erect a chimney scaffold at 200 feet (BBC Archive) (1982) [video] (youtube.com)