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Grand MS-DOS Gaming General MIDI Showdown (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-15 | by John Novak | get Roland SC-55 Sound Canvas reissue → | tags: roland sc-55, yamaha mu80, general midi

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Show HN: Navier-Stokes Visualized as 1kB i386 demos (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-13 | tags: navier-stokes, i386 demos, dosbox

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Dose once, treat forever: drugs are being engineered to last much longer (feeds.nature.com)

2026-09-09 | by Deighton | tags: long-acting drugs, drug engineering, nature.com

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Ask HN: 3.5 inch diskette read errors, would a period correct drive do better? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-07 | get Greaseweazle V4 floppy drive controller → | tags: 3.5 inch floppy, ddrescue, dos software

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Schemy Lisp En DOS (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-06 | get Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs → | tags: sled, lisp, scheme

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Things 3.23 update now available with major repeating to-do improvements (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-19 | by Zac Hall | tags: things, cultured code, repeating to-dos

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The little-known winstart.bat batch file (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | by Raymond Chen | tags: winstart.bat, autoexec.bat, virtual machine manager

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Donkey.bas is 45 Years Old – 131 line of Glory (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-13 | tags: donkey.bas, ibm pc, bill gates

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McDonald's Built a 515-Page Dossier on Me. It Says I'll Never Stop Eating There (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-13 | by Reece Rogers | tags: mcdonald's, loyalty program, privacy rights

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McDonald’s Built a 515-Page Dossier on Me. It Says I’ll Never Stop Eating There (wired.com)

2026-08-12 | by Reece Rogers | tags: mcdonald’s, loyalty program, privacy rights

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Turbo Pascal on CP/M, MSX-DOS and MS-DOS (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: pascal, msx-dos, niklaus wirth

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Turbo Pascal on CP/M, MSX-DOS and MS-DOS – Pascal for Small Machines (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: pascal, niklaus wirth, msx-dos

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TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: game, mode, mouse

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Tree.fm Provides Looping Doses of Forest-Based Audio Valium (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-27 | tags: tree.fm, forest audio, looping

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AttoChess, a complete, playable chess program for 16-bit x86 DOS in 278 bytes (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-16 | tags: chess, attochess, dos

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A tasty RPG that will make you very hungry (theverge.com)

2026-07-11 | by Andrew Webster | tags: divas, dosa, dosa divas

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Billions of doses later: Global review confirms mRNA vaccines safe and effective (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-02 | by Brett Goldhawk | get mRNA Vaccine Safety Poster → | tags: mrna vaccines, university of british columbia, the lancet

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Google Drive on mobile is getting a double dose of new smart features (androidauthority.com)

2026-07-01 | get Google Drive Smart Features Guide → | tags: google drive, ask gemini, ai overviews

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Single Dose of Frog-Derived Gut Bacterium Eradicates 100% of Tumors in Mice (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-01 | by Nicolas Hulscher | get Probiotic Tumor Therapy Kit → | tags: gut microbes, ewingella americana, colorectal cancer

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HamsterOS jams a 32-bit GUI operating system in a single 1.44 MB floppy disk — retro OS for 386-era hardware should make for easy living with DOS machines and software (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-30 | by Bruno Ferreira | get RetroPie Raspberry Pi Kit → | tags: hamsteros, 386 hardware, dos software

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WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-27 | get Vintage Word Processor Software → | tags: wordstar, robert j. sawyer, ms-dos

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MSG Made Dossier on Activists Who Opposed Facial Recognition (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-23 | by About The Author | get Facial Recognition Privacy Mask → | tags: madison square garden, facial recognition, fight for the future

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Dostoyevsky isn't difficult (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-22 | by I Write | get Dostoyevsky Literary Classics → | tags: dostoyevsky, war and peace, russian literature

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David Ahl's Basic Computer Games Ported to C (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-21 | get C Programming Book → | tags: gw-basic, david ahl, creative computing

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DOS Game "F-15 Strike Eagle II" reversing project needs DOS test pilots (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-20 | by Neuviemeporte'S Journal | get DOSBox Emulator Software → | tags: f-15 strike eagle ii, dos, reverse engineering

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We Are Admittedly a Bit Startled by This Medical Case Report About Giving an Elderly Woman With Advanced Alzheimer’s a Gigantic Dose of Psychedelic Mushrooms Just to See What Would Happen (futurism.com)

2026-06-19 | by Victor Tangermann | get Psychedelic Mushroom Microdose Kit → | tags: psilocybin, alzheimer’s disease, neuropharmacology

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HTTP/2 Bomb Attacks Put Telcos, Healthcare Orgs at Risk (darkreading.com)

2026-06-15 | get HTTP/2 Security Toolkit → | tags: http/2, dos, telcos

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Improvement in advanced Alzheimer’s disease following high-dose psilocybin (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-15 | by Lago | tags: alzheimer’s disease, psilocybin, enigma strain

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Running DOS on Behringers DDX3216 with a DIY x86-Bios from Scratch (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-13 | tags: behringer, ddx3216, amd elan sc300

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SIRT7 regulates dosage compensation and safeguards the female X chromosome (feeds.nature.com)

2026-06-10 | by Simonet | tags: biol, cell, chromosome