GoKawiil - Tech News

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Obsolete Sounds (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-26 | tags: modem, vhs, cassette tapes

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City has roads named Tape Drive and Disk Drive from bygone HDD-making era — area was once home to the StorageTek empire (tomshardware.com)

2026-03-22 | by Mark Tyson | get StorageTek Tape Drive Model → | tags: storagetek, tape drive, disk drive

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Boomloom: Think with your hands (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-20 | tags: boomloom, warp threads, 4-shaft loom

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Quince hits $10B valuation with giant $500M round led by Iconiq (techcrunch.com)

2026-03-11 | by Julie Bort | get Quince → | tags: iconiq, quince, coach

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Screeching Sound of Peeling Tape (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-02 | get Peel and Stick → | tags: peeling, peeling tape, screeching

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There’s a Wild Reason Scotch Tape Screeches—and It Has to Do With the Speed of Sound (gizmodo.com)

2026-02-27 | get Scotch Tape → | tags: scotch tape, speed of sound, rust

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How to record an iPhone call (and where and when it's legal to do so) (zdnet.com)

2026-02-26 | by Elyse Betters Picaro | get Phone Recorder → | tags: iphone call recording, ios 26, tapeacall

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Scientists crack the case of "screeching" Scotch tape (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-24 | get Scotch → | tags: scotch tape, physical review e, john borden

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Scientists crack the case of "screeching" Scotch tape (arstechnica.com)

2026-02-24 | get Scotch → | tags: scotch tape, physical review e, john borden

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Here's why Scotch tape screeches when it's peeled (arstechnica.com)

2026-02-24 | get Scotch → | tags: scotch tape, physical review e, richard drew

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If You Miss MTV and Dunkaroos, This Indie Game Is for You (cnet.com)

2026-02-24 | by See Full Bio | get Dunkin' Donuts → | tags: mixtape, dunkaroos, summer game fest

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Finally, a technical advancement to my favorite old-school measuring tool - and it's on sale (zdnet.com)

2026-02-23 | by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes | get Digital Scale → | tags: milesey xtape1, laser rangefinder, apple watch

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Scalable and multiplexed recorders of gene regulation dynamics across weeks (feeds.nature.com)

2026-01-26 | by Zheng | get Gene Regulation Dynamics Recorder → | tags: cell, cytotape, gene

14.

Two Weeks Until Tapeout (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-25 | by Julia Desmazes | get Smartphone → | tags: array, design, jtag

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That Bell Labs 'Unix' Tape from 1974: From a Closet to Computing History (slashdot.org)

2026-01-11 | by Posted | get Unix → | tags: lepreau, maricq, research

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My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-11 | get Fibre Optic Cable → | tags: cable, cables, electrical

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Bell Labs 'Unix' Tape from 1974 Successfully Dumped to a Tarball (slashdot.org)

2025-12-21 | by Posted | get Unix → | tags: code, read, research

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Here you can find the contents of the Unix v4 tape ready for bootstrapping (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-20 | get Unix → | tags: boot, conf, disk

19.

I couldn't find a logging library that worked for my library, so I made one (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-12 | get LibraryScript → | tags: fedify, library, logging

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Spotify Wrapped 2025 goes ‘analog’ in the age of AI (feeds.feedburner.com)

2025-12-03 | get Music Player → | tags: aesthetic, aesthetic year, aesthetics

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5 wallpaper apps you need to download now that MKBHD’s Panels app is dead (androidauthority.com)

2025-12-02 | get Wallpaper → | tags: backdrops, google, tapet

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Gigantic VHS videotape hoard of thousands of videos stored in McDonald's boxes being given away for free — Internet Archive looks set to claim the tapes of U.S. news output spanning 2004-09 (tomshardware.com)

2025-11-17 | by Mark Tyson | get VHS tapes → | tags: boxes, collection, coverage

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Tape keeps kicking, 'breakthrough' 40TB native spec announced — LTO-10 tapes claim up to 100TB compressed data capacity, hold 2.2X more data than previous spec (tomshardware.com)

2025-11-13 | by Mark Tyson | get LTO-10 → | tags: capacity, format, media

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I tried a laser-powered tape measure for my DIY project - my only regret is not switching soon (zdnet.com)

2025-11-12 | by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes | get Laser Tape Measure → | tags: laser, measure, sized

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The Perplexing Appeal of the Telepathy Tapes (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-11-11 | get Mind Reader → | tags: communication, dickens, nonspeakers

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Using this handy laser tape measure for only a few minutes had me hooked - here's why (zdnet.com)

2025-10-31 | by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes | get Microsoft Surface Pro → | tags: laser, measure, s50

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I was skeptical, but a few minutes with this laser-power tape measure and I'm hooked (zdnet.com)

2025-10-31 | by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes | get Microsoft Surface Pro → | tags: laser, measure, s50

28.

Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get Amazon Echo Dot → | tags: claude, driver, kernel

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The world has a running Rational R1000/400 computer again (2019) (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get Meta Quest → | tags: 00, 0000, disk

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See How David Corenswet Became Superman in His Audition Tape (gizmodo.com)

2025-10-31 | by Justin Carter | get Chromecast → | tags: audition, corenswet, gunn