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01 / EXPLORE THROUGH TIME

Timeline

Start with the latest. Scroll back through time, or zoom in for more.

Year by yearUp to 5 stories per year
20261,343 stories
Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail↗ fabiensanglard.net · HN · 259 comments · 961 points · Jul 15, 2026
Ti-84 Evo↗ education.ti.com · HN · 482 comments · 603 points · May 01, 2026
Archive of BYTE magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975↗ archive.org · HN · 153 comments · 602 points · Apr 17, 2026
System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]↗ www-cdn.anthropic.com · HN · 658 comments · 848 points · Apr 07, 2026
Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder↗ techfixated.com · HN · 257 comments · 688 points · Mar 29, 2026
20251,550 stories
I replaced Animal Crossing's dialogue with a live LLM by hacking GameCube memory↗ joshfonseca.com · HN · 185 comments · 869 points · Sep 10, 2025
Show HN: I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display↗ benholmen.com · HN · 144 comments · 1145 points · Aug 04, 2025
Claude 4 System Card↗ simonwillison.net · HN · 252 comments · 700 points · May 25, 2025
Blog hosted on a Nintendo Wii↗ blog.infected.systems · HN · 104 comments · 622 points · Apr 21, 2025
Gemini 2.5 Flash↗ developers.googleblog.com · HN · 560 comments · 1076 points · Apr 17, 2025
20241,557 stories
Development Notes from xkcd's "Machine"↗ chromakode.com · HN · 82 comments · 754 points · May 08, 2024
Inside the Super Nintendo cartridges↗ fabiensanglard.net · HN · 153 comments · 548 points · Apr 22, 2024
Short Stack: World’s smallest Nintendo Wii↗ github.com · HN · 75 comments · 590 points · Apr 18, 2024
Lore Harp McGovern built a microcomputer empire from her suburban home↗ every.to · HN · 141 comments · 551 points · Apr 08, 2024
Picotron Is a Fantasy Workstation↗ lexaloffle.com · HN · 192 comments · 675 points · Mar 22, 2024
20231,329 stories
The step-by-step mechanical logic of old pinball machines [video]↗ youtube.com · HN · 41 comments · 189 points · Dec 29, 2023
THAT: A brand new analog computer↗ spectrum.ieee.org · HN · 91 comments · 218 points · Dec 28, 2023
Game Boy / Color Architecture↗ copetti.org · HN · 40 comments · 280 points · Dec 26, 2023
The Art of Electronics (2015)↗ artofelectronics.net · HN · 110 comments · 403 points · Dec 23, 2023
Celebrating the first NES Tetris game crash↗ biggieblog.com · HN · 56 comments · 204 points · Dec 22, 2023
20221,451 stories
The last person standing in the floppy disk business↗ eyeondesign.aiga.org · HN · 352 comments · 735 points · Sep 13, 2022
The forty-year programmer↗ codefol.io · HN · 238 comments · 491 points · Sep 02, 2022
The Floppotron 3.0↗ silent.org.pl · HN · 128 comments · 1398 points · Jun 13, 2022
Original Pong did not have any code or even a microprocessor↗ falstad.com · HN · 144 comments · 572 points · May 25, 2022
The computers used to do 3D animation for Final Fantasy VII in 1996↗ lunduke.substack.com · HN · 364 comments · 768 points · Apr 07, 2022
20211,333 stories
There oughta be a WiFi Game Boy cartridge↗ there.oughta.be · HN · 98 comments · 539 points · Dec 16, 2021
Sir Clive Sinclair has died↗ theguardian.com · HN · 438 comments · 1746 points · Sep 16, 2021
This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator↗ fxip.as203478.net · HN · 253 comments · 872 points · Jul 12, 2021
Pokegb: A gameboy emulator that only plays Pokémon Blue, in 68 lines of C++↗ binji.github.io · HN · 63 comments · 551 points · Jun 04, 2021
Plan 9 from Bell Labs in Cyberspace↗ bell-labs.com · HN · 261 comments · 865 points · Mar 23, 2021
20201,321 stories
NandGame – Build a Computer from Scratch↗ nandgame.com · HN · 136 comments · 627 points · Dec 02, 2020
Booting from a vinyl record↗ boginjr.com · HN · 157 comments · 979 points · Nov 22, 2020
Hacker Mods Old Calculator to Access the Internet, Casio Files DMCA Complaint↗ torrentfreak.com · HN · 168 comments · 452 points · May 23, 2020
The original source code of Microsoft GW-BASIC from 1983↗ devblogs.microsoft.com · HN · 266 comments · 546 points · May 21, 2020
How SNES emulators got a few pixels from complete perfection↗ arstechnica.com · HN · 158 comments · 543 points · Apr 01, 2020
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02 / CATCH UP

The conversation now

Popular stories, with attention fading over roughly two weeks.

Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 294 comments · 282 points · Sep 25, 2026
Pentium II at 600Mhz with Voodoo 3 Emulated on 86Box with M6 Mac Mini↗ nyaa.sh · HN · 121 comments · 282 points · Sep 25, 2026
Alan Kay's answer to “Did the ENIAC have a BIOS”?↗ quora.com · HN · 62 comments · 180 points · Sep 27, 2026
Z80 REPL (2018)↗ abagames.github.io · HN · 25 comments · 161 points · Sep 23, 2026
16-bit Intel 8088 chip (c. 1985)↗ allpoetry.com · HN · 22 comments · 134 points · Sep 22, 2026

03 / GO DEEPER

Follow your curiosity

Find a particular story, revisit a year, or see what resonated.

Highest rated · the last 30 days

Commodore 64 released September 1, 1982↗ dfarq.homeip.net · HN · 182 comments · 359 points · Sep 02, 2026
Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 294 comments · 282 points · Sep 25, 2026
Pentium II at 600Mhz with Voodoo 3 Emulated on 86Box with M6 Mac Mini↗ nyaa.sh · HN · 121 comments · 282 points · Sep 25, 2026
A 386 PC for Your RP2350↗ github.com · HN · 80 comments · 222 points · Sep 14, 2026
Recreating Voodoo Graphics and a Late-1990s Gaming PC on an FPGA↗ nand2mario.github.io · HN · 59 comments · 190 points · Sep 15, 2026
Alan Kay's answer to “Did the ENIAC have a BIOS”?↗ quora.com · HN · 62 comments · 180 points · Sep 27, 2026
The Interim Computer Museum↗ icm.museum · HN · 27 comments · 164 points · Sep 13, 2026
iPod Classic 6G in QEMU↗ reddit.com · HN · 47 comments · 162 points · Sep 08, 2026
Z80 REPL (2018)↗ abagames.github.io · HN · 25 comments · 161 points · Sep 23, 2026
This PCB is brought to you by Fable 5↗ a6mzero.com · HN · 106 comments · 160 points · Sep 14, 2026

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