Hacker News with Generative AI: Nostalgia

RIP Val Kilmer: Celebrating cult classic Real Genius is now a moral imperative (arstechnica.com)
Back to the Future justly dominated the summer box office in 1985, but it's too bad its massive success overshadowed another nerd-friendly gem, Real Genius, which debuted one month later, on August 9.

Movies, Nostalgia, 1980s, Pop Culture, Film

5 points by LinuxBender 6 hours ago | 5 comments

Why Smartfood Popcorn Doesn't Hit Like It Used To (eater.com)
Smartfood White Cheddar popcorn is the only snack I ever want. I mean this. I do not often crave sweets, and while I will happily accept chips and Cheetos and various Haldiram’s mixes, Smartfood is the only one that sends me into a focused stupor. I have regularly eaten entire bags of it — big ones, the ones meant for a whole family — while watching a movie.

Food, Snacking, Personal Opinion, Nostalgia

5 points by ctoth 11 hours ago | 0 comments

RIP Val Kilmer: Real Genius .. the Film Nerd Culture Deserves (2015) (reactormag.com)
It’s interesting to me that Revenge of the Nerds, while still full up of the nostalgia that the 80s lends us, is lately being repositioned in the zeitgeist.

Film, Culture, Nostalgia, 80s

318 points by MPSimmons 15 hours ago | 98 comments

Station: Travel Through the Four Seasons (1994) (gingerbeardman.com)
After reaching 1 million files in my Macintosh Magazine Media project, I thought it would be cool to post about something I found recently in those discs. I get a real buzz rediscovering something like this after more than 30 years have passed.

Retro Gaming, Nostalgia, Macintosh, Digital Media

20 points by msephton 3 days ago | 0 comments

Blue95: a desktop for your childhood home's computer room (github.com/winblues)
Blue95 is a modern and lightweight desktop experience that is reminiscent of a bygone era of computing.

Operating Systems, Nostalgia, User Interfaces, Software

562 points by elvis70 3 days ago | 313 comments

Interview with the Creator of Deluxe Ski Jump (spillhistorie.no)
This is a complicated time for ski jumping in Norway. Interest has been declining for years, with plenty of negative press, and it all peaked recently with the disappointing revelations of widespread suit cheating among Norwegian jumpers. But perhaps we can use this rough patch to reminisce about truly great ski jumping experiences — experiences that, of course, took place in front of a screen.

Gaming, Sports, Nostalgia

87 points by Kolorabi 5 days ago | 14 comments

Meta debuts Friends tab, Mark Zuckerberg pushes 'throwback to OG Facebook' (cnbc.com)

Social Media, Facebook, Meta, Nostalgia, User Interface

13 points by koolba 6 days ago | 17 comments

Why Smartfood White Cheddar Popcorn Doesn't Hit Like It Used To (eater.com)
Smartfood White Cheddar popcorn is the only snack I ever want. I mean this. I do not often crave sweets, and while I will happily accept chips and Cheetos and various Haldiram’s mixes, Smartfood is the only one that sends me into a focused stupor. I have regularly eaten entire bags of it — big ones, the ones meant for a whole family — while watching a movie.

Food, Snacks, Nostalgia, Consumer Goods

6 points by coloneltcb 6 days ago | 3 comments

Little things that made Amiga great (datagubbe.se)
To most people, the Amiga is probably synonymous with the Amiga 500 and that machine was, above all, a video game: something into which you plonked 3.5" floppy disks that transported you to strange, wonderful worlds and hours of fun.

Retro Computing, Video Games, Personal Computers, Nostalgia

11 points by andsoitis 11 days ago | 2 comments

Blogging like it's 1987: A blog post from my old text terminal (pointinthecloud.com)
I'm writing this on a black and yellow screen that is 38 years old, and I'm really enjoying it.

Nostalgia, Technology, Blogging, Retro Computing

8 points by ftvkyo 11 days ago | 0 comments

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon [2025 revisited] (bsd.cafe)

Networking, Humor, Technology, Nostalgia

4 points by mtmail 14 days ago | 0 comments

43-year-old Family Canoe Trip (paddlingmag.com)
On June 14, 1974, my grandma Glady dropped her two sons off at a marina in the Puget Sound. They loaded gear into homemade woodstrip canoes and pushed off into the cold, black water. Decades later, Grandma told me as she watched them disappear into the fog, she wondered if she would ever see her boys again.

Family, Canoeing, Puget Sound, Nostalgia, Personal Stories

103 points by cameron_b 16 days ago | 24 comments

Spirit of Amiga (amigawiki.de)
Without a doubt there is the 'Spirit of Amiga'. But… how do you explain it? What is it made of?

Gaming, History, Culture, Nostalgia

4 points by doener 17 days ago | 1 comments

A Great Old-Timey Game-Programming Hack (2013) (moertel.com)
A long time ago, when I was a college undergrad, I spent some time working on computer video games.

Gaming, Programming, Nostalgia

4 points by palsecam 18 days ago | 0 comments

Ask HN: Best Way to Build MS-DOS-Style Text UI in the Browser? (ycombinator.com)
I'm working on a web app that mimics the look and feel of an old MS-DOS program—think Turbo Pascal IDE or Norton Commander.

Web Development, User Interfaces, Nostalgia, Retro Computing

6 points by 3stripe 18 days ago | 6 comments

The 90s Gamer Experience: Handwritten Notes and Maps (rz01.org)
In an age where information is easily available on the internet, it’s hard to imagine a time when gamers actually had to figure out everything by themselves or by sharing with (offline) friends.

Gaming, Nostalgia, History, Video Games, Culture

88 points by exitnode 25 days ago | 10 comments

Was Snow Leopard 10.6 the greatest OS X release? (2022) (greggant.com)
If you were to ask a group of long-time Mac users, what's the best Operating System Apple has ever released? It'd likely be nearly unanimous.

Operating Systems, Apple, Mac, Nostalgia, History

10 points by oumua_don17 26 days ago | 3 comments

Re-Volt is still alive (re-volt.io)
Re-Volt is an R/C car racing game from Acclaim, originally released in 1999. It features great gameplay, several game modes and realistic physics, coupled with bright and colorful visuals that still hold up to this day.

Gaming, Retro Gaming, Nostalgia

8 points by napolux 27 days ago | 1 comments

Show HN: Windows 95 Themed Job Board (With Minesweeper) (windows95jobs.com)

Web Development, Nostalgia, Humor, Job Search

9 points by kylem866 27 days ago | 3 comments

The Return of Digg, a Star of an Earlier Internet Era (nytimes.com)
Two decades after creating Digg, a community-focused social message board, Kevin Rose is reviving the site and teaming up with a founder of Reddit.

Social Media, Internet, Nostalgia, Business, News Aggregators

189 points by frankacter 29 days ago | 234 comments

Digg Returns: Relaunching in Bid to Bring "Good Vibes" Back to Social Media (hollywoodreporter.com)
Twenty years after it was founded, Digg is coming back, in a bid to “bring the fun back” to the internet.

Social Media, Relaunches, Nostalgia, Digital Culture

16 points by adrian_mrd 29 days ago | 2 comments

Ask HN: Are forums dead? (ycombinator.com)
I got a bit of nostalgia to the old days of phpBB forums about computers. I enjoyed the days when forum software was purely a forum software, without any real time messaging/chat, and where people would post longer content than 120 characters.<p>Are forums dead? Do you know of any active forum on computers, software, hardware?

Online Communities, Nostalgia, Forums, Software, Hardware

17 points by skwee357 29 days ago | 11 comments

Why fastDOOM is fast (fabiensanglard.net)
During the winter of 2024, I restored an IBM PS/1 486-DX2 66Mhz, "Mini-Tower", model 2168. It was the computer I always wanted as a teenager but could never afford. Words cannot do justice to the joy I felt while working on this machine.

Retro Computing, Personal Computing, Nostalgia

672 points by wicket 29 days ago | 219 comments

Ask HN: Whatever Happened to Slashdot? (ycombinator.com)
I went there just now and posts have like 20-30 comments on most stories or around 100 on older, popular threads if you click "load more stories". I remember when it used to have hundreds of comments per post.

Online Communities, Nostalgia, Web 2.0

11 points by logicallee 30 days ago | 8 comments

Nearly 25 years later, Terminator 2 is getting a new video game (gizmodo.com)
Despite not having a new movie in six years, Terminator has been recently kept alive through TV and video games. The next game for the franchise goes back to its past—specifically, its game-changing sequel, Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

Video Games, Gaming, Terminator, Nostalgia, Remakes

65 points by ulrischa 32 days ago | 27 comments

The Museum of Mid 2000s forum signatures (itch.io)
Inside this humble museum dedicated to media left behind, you will find 15 pieces on display. The museum should take between 5 and 10 minutes to browse!

Web Culture, Nostalgia, Art, Digital Museums

7 points by carlos-menezes 37 days ago | 0 comments

MathB.in Is Shutting Down (susam.net)
Thirteen years ago, on a quiet Saturday night, I sat down and began developing MathB.in.

Math, Web Development, Community, Shutdowns, Nostalgia

66 points by susam 38 days ago | 59 comments

When They Stop Selling Your Favorite Thing (nytimes.com)
Shoppers are going online to pay dearly for discontinued items, from the perfect lip pencil to Tab.

E-commerce, Consumer Behavior, Nostalgia, Discontinued Products, Marketing

5 points by mikhael 39 days ago | 2 comments

Ask HN: Is anyone still using Dreamweaver? (ycombinator.com)
When I was learning to build websites in 2010 Dreamweaver was the go-to. I remember it thoroughly confused the heck out of me. Anyone here able to use it effectively?

Web Development, Software, Tools, Nostalgia

176 points by gillytech 39 days ago | 177 comments

'There's no stress': gamers go offline in retro console revival (theguardian.com)
Nestled between an original Donkey Kong arcade machine, a mint condition OutRun racing simulation game and booths wired up with GameCubes and Nintendo 64s, the engineer Luke Malpass works away dismantling a broken Nintendo Wii.

Gaming, Nostalgia, Retro Gaming, Technology

11 points by herbertl 40 days ago | 2 comments