Hacker News with Generative AI: Nostalgia

Brood War Korean Translations (sourcedive.net)
As work slowed down during the last couple of weeks of 2024, I decided to redirect some of my energy to hobbies instead of work. One such hobby is StarCraft: Brood War (or BW for short), a classic, highly competitive RTS from '98 that still has an active community today.
Gaming, StarCraft, Nostalgia, Community
220 points by todsacerdoti 9 hours ago | 74 comments
Watch Bob Ross' the Joy of Painting Start to Finish: Every Episode X 31 Seasons (openculture.com)
Television, Art, Nostalgia
6 points by bookofjoe 10 hours ago | 6 comments
Your brain is lying to you about the “good old days” (vox.com)
The science behind why we think the past was better than the present.
Nostalgia, Psychology, Cognitive Bias
15 points by lr0 2 days ago | 13 comments
Personalized voice recordings by Elwood "You've got mail!" Edwards (2024) (jgc.org)
If you're old enough to have ever used, seen or overheard the once ubiquitous AOL software you'll have heard the voice of Elwood Edwards.
Voice Acting, Internet History, Nostalgia
96 points by fzliu 4 days ago | 31 comments
I will never need to buy a new computer again (82mhz.net)
If you’re in your early thirties or older, you remember the breakneck pace at which computers were improving in the 90s and 2000s.
Technology, Personal Computing, Nostalgia, Moore's Law
145 points by ecliptik 5 days ago | 181 comments
The mistake of yearning for the 'friendly' online world of 20 years ago (elpais.com)
In the visuals of María Escarmiento’s concerts, as in those of many other figures of the urban scene, iPods, Blackberry phones and screenshots of Fotolog, Messenger or Tuenti appear often.
Nostalgia, Online Culture, Social Media, Technology, History
169 points by geox 5 days ago | 219 comments
I Sang Along with Peter Yarrow in 1972 (wsj.com)
On hearing of the death of Peter Yarrow, who co-wrote the iconic tune “Puff the Magic Dragon,” I thought back to Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., in 1972.
Music, Peter Yarrow, Nostalgia, Folk Music
6 points by bookofjoe 7 days ago | 4 comments
"Twelfth Night Till Candlemas" – A 40-year book-quest (davidallengreen.com)
This post is about finally finding a book from one’s youth forty years later – and after nearly thirty years of searching.
Books, Nostalgia, Personal Stories
182 points by ColinWright 8 days ago | 54 comments
An abandoned ship held a treasure for 30 years: 50 arcade machines (jasondeegan.com)
Hidden away on a rusting, forgotten ship in Wales lay a gamer’s dream: 50 vintage arcade machines, untouched for decades.
Gaming, History, Nostalgia, Treasures, Wales
45 points by speckx 11 days ago | 9 comments
A swashbuckling tale of Italian software piracy – 1983-1993 (2022) (genesistemple.com)
Everyone had a favorite videogame shop as a kid, where plenty of happy – or perhaps, not-so-happy – memories took place. Maybe it was EG or a Game, if one is UK based, or perhaps a Gamestop, Blockbuster or a mom-and-pop shop even. As for me, well, most of my games, as a child, I bought them at newspaper kiosks.
Video Games, Piracy, Italy, History, Nostalgia
115 points by alberto-m 11 days ago | 47 comments
A man keeping hope, and 70-year-old pinball machines, alive (arstechnica.com)
The pastime of pinball has lived a fraught existence. Whether due to public sentiment, hostile legislation, or a simple lack of popularity, the entire silver ball industry has repeatedly teetered on the brink of collapse. Yet it has always come back, today again riding a wave of popularity driven by the successes of high-tech machines capitalizing on familiar brands like X-Men and Godzilla.
Pinball, Nostalgia, Entertainment, Gaming, History
58 points by dangle1 12 days ago | 30 comments
Republishing my Simpsons fan site, twenty years later (bingeclock.com)
© 2014-2025 Bingeclock, Inc.
Nostalgia, Web Development, The Simpsons, Fan Sites, Personal Projects
198 points by zebomon 12 days ago | 81 comments
Show HN: A remake of my 2004 PDA video game (nicollet.net)
In 2022, I found an archive DVD with the C++ source code, sprites, sounds and music of my 2004 video game Darklaga Cannonball Symphony. It could no longer be built (due to missing proprietary dependencies), so I decided to re-implement it as a late evening hobby project.
Video Games, Retro Gaming, Programming, Nostalgia
106 points by victorNicollet 18 days ago | 23 comments
A Tricycle of the Mind (marcusb.org)
This Christmas, my daughter and I are building a computer together. The sheer power of what will be her first computer, compared to the computers I used when I was her age is staggering, as is the capability of the software she’ll have access to. Still, I can’t help but think that for all this power, the kids coming of age today have lost something that I took for granted. That I didn’t even begin to understand that I had.
Technology, Education, Nostalgia
53 points by walterbell 18 days ago | 27 comments
Replicate Old Website (ycombinator.com)
Some time ago I stumbled upon a really cool and simple website (Not a shop, no forum, it's just a full screen GIF and some background music). Unfortunately no contact info on the site.
Websites, Design, Nostalgia, Web Development
9 points by chillmonkey 19 days ago | 13 comments
A Tongue-in-Cheek Look Back at Broderbund's 'The Print Shop' (2021) (theprintshop.club)
In the early 1980s, if you wanted posters to advertise a yard sale or a party, your options were pretty limited.
Retro Gaming, Software, History, Design, Nostalgia
64 points by mikerg87 22 days ago | 38 comments
1584 LAN party photos from 1996 – 2010 from Australia's island state archived (issung.com)
In July 2023 I was reminiscing about a thing of the past, large-scale public LAN parties. I remember them being a semiregular occurrence around Tasmania, only attending a couple in my young age before they disappeared. I wondered if I could find some photos of these events to help the memories come back clearer.
Nostalgia, Photography, History, Australia, LAN Parties
175 points by issung 25 days ago | 52 comments
Kid Pix: The Early Years (red-green-blue.com)
Ben: Dad, what have you been doing upstairs? Dad: Writing a short history of Kid Pix. Ben: Do you really think anyone is going to want to read that?
Nostalgia, Childhood, Software, History, Personal Projects
12 points by mysterydip 28 days ago | 3 comments
Nokia 5110 – Back from the Dead (2022) (opsbros.com)
I loved my Nokia 5110 and I wonder if it was possible to breathe new life into this long-shelved and still-memed mobile phone. As it turns out, not only is it possible, but it's going to be a lot easier than I anticipated.
Retro Tech, Mobile Phones, Nostalgia
253 points by hackertux 33 days ago | 137 comments
Nvidia revives LAN party after 13 years to celebrate RTX 50-series GPU launch (tomshardware.com)
Nvidia, Graphics Cards, Gaming, Events, Nostalgia
5 points by LorenDB 35 days ago | 0 comments
Why are cassette and CD players so bulky now? [video] (youtube.com)
Technology, Nostalgia, Consumer Products
20 points by marcher 40 days ago | 28 comments
Ask HN: Does retro computing make you feel younger or older? (ycombinator.com)
Does it matter whether you are doing retro gaming or retro programming?
Retro Computing, Programming, Gaming, Nostalgia
59 points by amichail 40 days ago | 73 comments
We all took the DVD boom era for granted (filmstories.co.uk)
Nostalgia being the reality-warping entity that it is, there are certain things from years ago that aren’t quite as good as you remember.
Nostalgia, Entertainment, Media, Technology
6 points by throw0101c 41 days ago | 1 comments
We all took the DVD boom era for granted (filmstories.co.uk)
Nostalgia being the reality-warping entity that it is, there are certain things from years ago that aren’t quite as good as you remember.
Nostalgia, Media, Entertainment, Technology, Film
190 points by thunderbong 42 days ago | 368 comments
RollerCoaster Tycoon was the last of its kind [video] (youtube.com)
Gaming, Nostalgia, Video Games
242 points by zdw 42 days ago | 63 comments
Chuck E. Cheese's animatronics band bows out (ieee.org)
Charles “Entertainment” Cheese and friends will soon sing their last song
Entertainment, Music, Technology, Nostalgia
215 points by pseudolus 46 days ago | 150 comments
Lunatic Fringe is a game originally distributed as an AfterDark screensaver (github.com/jackinloadup)
Lunatic Fringe is a game beloved by those of us who had the privilege to play it back in the early 90s. It has a special charm that has not been replicated in games since.
Retro Gaming, Screensavers, Games, Nostalgia
34 points by threekindwords 54 days ago | 16 comments
Show HN: I'm making a spiritual successor to Ski Free that runs in a browser (winterpixel.io)
HTML5 canvas appears to be unsupported in the current browser.
Games, Web Development, Nostalgia
115 points by nightowl_games 55 days ago | 52 comments
In Memoriam: "You-do-it" Electronics (medium.com)
I moved to the Boston area thirteen years ago, and it didn’t take long for me to find You-do-it Electronics, with its anachronistic neon sign shining like a beacon to electronics nerds driving up I-95. This summer, it shut its doors for good, which leaves me sad, even though I knew its closing was inevitable from the first moment I walked in there.
Electronics, Nostalgia, Local Businesses, Boston
29 points by ssawyer06 56 days ago | 9 comments
Lush: My favorite small programming language (wordpress.com)
I meant to write about this when I started my blog in 2009. Eventually Lush kind of faded out of my consciousness, as it was a lot easier to get work doing stuff in R or Matlab or whatever. The guy who was maintaining the code moved on to other things. The guys who wrote most of the code were getting famous because of the German Traffic Sign results. I moved on to other things.
Programming Languages, Personal Projects, Nostalgia
151 points by todsacerdoti 59 days ago | 28 comments