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Stories by michalpleban

Cool-retro-term: terminal emulator which mimics look and feel of CRTs (github.com)
HN 298 pts 118 comments by michalpleban Nov 24, 2025 Gaming / Retro Computing thread
Design and evaluation of a parrot-to-parrot video-calling system (2023) (smithsonianmag.com)
HN 139 pts 71 comments by michalpleban May 6, 2025 thread
Why are coffee stains darker at the edges? (why.is)
HN 135 pts 45 comments by michalpleban May 11, 2025 thread
Bill Gates's Personal Easter Eggs in 8 Bit BASIC (2008) (pagetable.com)
HN 129 pts 32 comments by michalpleban Apr 26, 2025 Gaming / Retro Computing thread
Lightweight open source reCaptcha alternative (github.com)
HN 113 pts 70 comments by michalpleban May 13, 2025 Programming (General) thread
Hacking the last Z80 computer – FOSDEM 2026 [video] (fosdem.org)
HN 66 pts 8 comments by michalpleban Feb 7, 2026 Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
The lost secrets of Palm webOS (2014) (theverge.com)
HN 50 pts 31 comments by michalpleban Apr 26, 2025 thread
Dissecting a British wartime night vision tank periscope [video] (youtube.com)
HN 44 pts 5 comments by michalpleban Apr 22, 2025 thread
I960, the first superscalar CPU (2023) (righto.com)
HN 23 pts 4 comments by michalpleban Sep 25, 2025 Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
Identifying almost any x86 CPU (2004) (web.archive.org)
HN 16 pts 1 comments by michalpleban May 17, 2025 Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
Sweden bans paying for OnlyFans content (euractiv.com)
HN 10 pts 6 comments by michalpleban May 22, 2025 thread
Core War (en.wikipedia.org)
HN 7 pts 0 comments by michalpleban May 16, 2025 thread
X-rays from an overdriven magnetron [video] (youtube.com)
HN 7 pts 0 comments by michalpleban Apr 28, 2025 thread
How many bytes can you pack on a floppy, and how to hack the FDC to achieve it (os2museum.com)
HN 6 pts 1 comments by michalpleban Apr 27, 2025 thread
Why is Windows Compressed Folders support stuck at the turn of the century? (2018) (devblogs.microsoft.com)
HN 5 pts 2 comments by michalpleban May 16, 2025 thread
Nobody wants the A20 gate, but it continues to haunt us (aeb.win.tue.nl)
HN 5 pts 0 comments by michalpleban Apr 28, 2025 thread
The Origins of the IBM PC (os2museum.com)
HN 4 pts 0 comments by michalpleban May 3, 2025 thread
I used DeepSeek and FLUX.1 to create 464708 tattoo designs. Here's the result (inks.art)
HN 4 pts 6 comments by michalpleban Apr 13, 2025 thread
A Raspberry Pi-like computer with Intel x86 processor (howtogeek.com)
HN 3 pts 3 comments by michalpleban Nov 17, 2025 Systems / Low-Level / OSMaker / DIY / Hardware thread
"Bone collector" caterpillar disguises itself in the body parts of its prey (cbsnews.com)
HN 3 pts 0 comments by michalpleban May 16, 2025 thread
Hacker News Dark Mode (Chrome Extension) (chromewebstore.google.com)
HN 3 pts 1 comments by michalpleban May 12, 2025 Internet / Digital Culture thread
The first machine that ran DOS (and without the 640kB barrier) (dosmandrivel.blogspot.com)
HN 3 pts 0 comments by michalpleban Apr 27, 2025 thread
Inside Windows 3 (xtof.info)
HN 2 pts 0 comments by michalpleban Sep 24, 2025 thread
How Royal Navy forgot how to cure scurvy (bluesci.co.uk)
HN 2 pts 4 comments by michalpleban Sep 23, 2025 thread
The effect of ChatGPT on students' learning performance: meta-analysis (nature.com)
HN 2 pts 0 comments by michalpleban May 12, 2025 AI / Machine Learning thread
The only Soviet laptop ever made (youtube.com)
HN 2 pts 0 comments by michalpleban Apr 26, 2025 thread
Exploring SKALA: Chernobyl Reactor Control Computer [video] (youtube.com)
HN 2 pts 0 comments by michalpleban Apr 24, 2025 thread
1984 Swedish Hotline – World's First Social Network (medium.com)
HN 1 pts 0 comments by michalpleban Nov 20, 2025 thread
Microsoft open-sources Windows Subsystem for Linux (arstechnica.com)
HN 1 pts 3 comments by michalpleban May 27, 2025 Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General) thread
What Is an Idempotent Operation? (stackoverflow.com)
HN 1 pts 0 comments by michalpleban May 21, 2025 thread