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I love these sorts of posts. Is there a Hacker News just for cool retro-computing hacks and weird hobby OSes I could read?
by troad 4y ago
I love these sorts of posts. Is there a Hacker News just for cool retro-computing hacks and weird hobby OSes I could read?
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- Ygg2 4y agoThere is Lunduke journal substack but nothing like hacker news.
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- epilys 4y agolobste.rs has computing only related content (no business - world news) and has a fair amount of retro computing posts
- SSLy 4y agohttps://lobste.rs/t/historical https://lobste.rs/t/historical
- anthk 4y agoReddit's Retrobattlestations, and at Usenet: comp.infosystems.gopher comp.infosystems.gemini alt.folklore.computers comp.misc (sometimes) comp.os.cpm comp.os.misc (from time to time)
- layer8 4y agoSometimes I wonder whether tagging support for HN articles wouldn’t be useful. Members could assign arbitrary publicly visible tags to articles, and upvote/downvote/flag those tags. Everyone could filter by tags and maybe see a vote count for each tag. Of course, that would be one more thing to moderate.
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- nickt 4y agohttps://www.vogons.org/ https://www.vogons.org/ For the more mainstream retro machines and hardware. https://forum.vcfed.org/ https://forum.vcfed.org/ For the rarer esoteric stuff (but still loads of old Macs, DOS machines, Amigas and 8-bit stuff) There loads of others, often machine specific, but these 2 are a good place to start.