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AI's PR Problem (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-22 | tags: digital preservation, david rosenthal, pr problem

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‘The Closet’ Is the Next Best Thing to Actually Getting an Invite to the Criterion Collection’s Fabled Closet (gizmodo.com)

2026-06-19 | get Criterion Collection Blu-ray → | tags: criterion collection, the closet, film preservation

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“The Closet” Is the Next Best Thing to Actually Getting an Invite to the Criterion Collection’s Fabled Closet (gizmodo.com)

2026-06-19 | get Criterion Collection Blu-ray → | tags: criterion collection, the closet, film preservation

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Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-17 | tags: stop killing games, european commission, video game industry

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The EU won't pursue a mandatory game preservation law (engadget.com)

2026-06-16 | by Anna Washenko | get RetroGame Preservation Kit → | tags: stop killing games, ubisoft, the crew

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Jeffrey Epstein’s Biopreserved Sperm Is Missing (futurism.com)

2026-06-02 | by Frank Landymore | tags: jeffrey epstein, california cryobank, coopercompanies

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Stop Killing Games (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-01 | tags: game preservation, california ab 1921, proprietary software

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The California State Assembly Has Passed the 'Protect Our Games Act' (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-29 | get Gaming Privacy Protection Kit → | tags: protect our games act, california state assembly, ubisoft the crew

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What It Takes to Preserve Floppy Disks (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-28 | by Gwendolyn Rak | get Floppy Disk Data Recovery Kit → | tags: floppy disks, data preservation, cambridge university

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The Group Behind the Recovered ‘Doctor Who’ Episodes Gives a Hopeful Update (gizmodo.com)

2026-05-26 | get Doctor Who DVD Collection → | tags: doctor who, film is fabulous, television preservation

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What It Takes to Preserve Floppy Disks (spectrum.ieee.org)

2026-05-26 | by Gwendolyn Rak | get USB Floppy Disk Drive → | tags: floppy disks, data preservation, cambridge university

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FiveThirtyEight articles on the Internet Archive (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-20 | get Internet Archive Book Scanner → | tags: five thirty eight, internet archive, web preservation

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Ben Welsh made an index of all FiveThirtyEight articles on the Internet Archive (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-20 | get Internet Archive Digital Library → | tags: five thirty eight, internet archive, ben welsh

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Someone Dropped This Notebook in a Medieval Toilet 700 Years Ago—and It’s Still Legible (gizmodo.com)

2026-05-19 | get Antique Leather Notebook Preservation Kit → | tags: notebook, medieval, latrine

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California lawmakers are working on a bill to preserve access to online games (engadget.com)

2026-05-15 | by Ian Carlos Campbell | get Gaming Access Preservation Kit → | tags: protect our games act, stop killing games, entertainment software association

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The Remains of at Least 7 Probes May Still Exist on This Hellish Planet (gizmodo.com)

2026-05-12 | get Mars Rover Model Kit → | tags: venus, space archeology, probes

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Internet Archive Switzerland (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-09 | get Internet Archive Swiss Collection → | tags: internet archive, switzerland, sankt gallen

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Internet archival sites struggling to preserve the internet because of skyrocketing hard drive prices due to the AI boom — Wayback Machine and Wikimedia punished by stratospheric storage pricing and stricter anti-scraping measures blocking the wrong bots (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-08 | by Hassam Nasir | get Seagate External Hard Drive → | tags: wayback machine, wikimedia foundation, hard drive shortages

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Here’s how technology transformed babymaking (technologyreview.com)

2026-05-08 | by Jessica Hamzelou | get Smart Baby Monitor → | tags: vitrication, ivf, embryo freezing

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Does Your Fridge Keep Freezing Your Veggies? Here's How I Fixed It (cnet.com)

2026-04-28 | by See Full Bio | get Fridge Temperature Controller → | tags: fridge, temperature, food preservation

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Here's How Much Detergent You Realistically Need to Use (cnet.com)

2026-04-22 | by See Full Bio | get Laundry Detergent Measuring Cups → | tags: detergent, kasbah tamadot, clothing care

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A brief history of instant coffee (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-04 | by Benjamin Stubbing | get Instant Coffee Starter Kit → | tags: instant coffee, coffee compounds, john dring

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Scientist Thawing Out Fragments of His Friend’s Cryogenically Preserved Brain (futurism.com)

2026-03-29 | by Joe Wilkins | get Cryogenic Brain Preservation Kit → | tags: cryopreservation, acryobiology, brain preservation

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A woman’s uterus has been kept alive outside the body for the first time (technologyreview.com)

2026-03-28 | by Jessica Hamzelou | get Uterus Transplant Model Kit → | tags: puper, carlos simon foundation, biomedical scientist

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Here’s why some people choose cryonics to store their bodies and brains after death (technologyreview.com)

2026-03-27 | by Jessica Hamzelou | tags: cryonics, alcor, cryobiology

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This scientist rewarmed and studied pieces of his friend’s cryopreserved brain (technologyreview.com)

2026-03-24 | by Jessica Hamzelou | get Cryonics Brain Preservation Kit → | tags: alcor, cryopreservation, fahy

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Chest Fridge (2009) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-22 | get Mini Portable Fridge → | tags: vestfrost, chest fridge, energy efficiency

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A pig's brain has been frozen with its cellular activity locked in place (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-21 | by Author.Fullname | get Frozen Pig Brain Model → | tags: neural preservation, nectome, cryonics

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Scientists Bring Mouse Brains Back to Life After “Cryosleep” Deep Freeze (futurism.com)

2026-03-20 | by Victor Tangermann | get Cryogenic Brain Preservation Kit → | tags: cryosleep, vitrification, university of erlangen–nuremberg

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New "vibe coded" AI translation tool splits the video game preservation community (arstechnica.com)

2026-03-16 | get AI Language Translator Device → | tags: ai translation, video game preservation, patreon