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Windows 95 released August 24, 1995 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-25 | by Dave Farquhar | get Windows 95 logo t-shirt → | tags: windows 95, microsoft, microsoft product

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Windows NT 4.0 turns 30: when Microsoft brought the Windows 95 look to the enterprise (techspot.com)

2026-08-24 | by Alfonso Maruccia | get Windows 95 retro logo t-shirt → | tags: windows nt, microsoft, windows 95

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Windows NT 4.0 is 30: The release that brought Windows 95's GUI to workstations (techspot.com)

2026-08-24 | by Alfonso Maruccia | get Showstopper Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT book → | tags: windows nt, microsoft, windows 95

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Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone (2003) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-20 | by Raymond Chen | tags: windows 95, hologram, anti-piracy

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Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-20 | by Raymond Chen | tags: windows 95, hologram, naked children

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I used to be excited about new tech, but I rarely am anymore (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-18 | tags: vcr, windows 95, dvd

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Ukraine built a $48,000 long-range drone after covertly snapping Chinese factory photos, clone destroys Russian Tu-95 bomber — attack drone has 2,000 km range, country builds 6,000 flying-wing drones a year (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-16 | by Luke James | tags: mich 2000, tu-95, ztk-150

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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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Windows NT 4.0 brought the Win95 UI to servers 30 years ago today — milestone unifying modern Windows OS hit RTM in the Pentium era (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Mark Tyson | tags: windows nt, microsoft, windows 95

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A human postmortem of the 1996 AOL outage (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-24 | by Mac Chaffee | get AOL Classic Logo Mug → | tags: aol outage, site reliability engineering, ngrok

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Why Windows 95 Was Tech's Last True Revolution (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-23 | by Comuniq Team | get Windows 95 Retro T-Shirt → | tags: windows 95, microsoft, rolling stones

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Bill Gates once starred in a bizarre Doom promo to push Windows 95 back in 1993 — tech mogul wore a trench coat, wielded a shotgun, and shot a demon, saying 'Who do you want to execute today?' (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-31 | by Mark Tyson | tags: windows 95, directx, microsoft

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Open Source Developer Brings Linux to Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows ME (slashdot.org)

2026-04-25 | by Posted | get ReactOS Operating System → | tags: linux, windows 95, windows 98

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You can now run Linux on your ancient Windows 95 desktop with a new tool — very old Windows PCs, back to Intel 486, can cooperatively run very modern Linux kernels with WSL9x (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-23 | by Mark Tyson | get Linux on Windows 95 Emulator → | tags: windows 95, wsl9x, linux kernel

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Bring Back Idiomatic Design (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-12 | by John Loeber | get Idiomatic Design Book → | tags: windows 95, idiomatic design, homogeneous interfaces

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Some Windows 3.1 apps were simply "too evil" for Windows 95 to support, says Microsoft veteran (techspot.com)

2026-04-09 | get Windows 95 Compatibility Kit → | tags: windows 3.1, windows 95, microsoft

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Windows 95 defenses against installers that overwrite a file with an older one (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-29 | by Raymond Chen | get Windows 95 File Protection Kit → | tags: windows 95, sysbckup, file version

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The miracle of PowerToys, Microsoft’s last great Windows app (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-03-19 | get Microsoft PowerToys → | tags: powertoys, microsoft, windows 11

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The Windows 95 user interface: A case study in usability engineering (1996) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-28 | get Windows 95 → | tags: windows 95, microsoft, ui design

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Withings’ $380 toilet-mounted urine analyzer is finally ready to buy (engadget.com)

2025-10-31 | get computer monitor → | tags: 95, pay, scan

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Windows 3.1 in a Windows 95 Virtual Machine (2022) (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get Microsoft Surface Laptop → | tags: 95, dos, microsoft

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Everything from 1991 Radio Shack ad I now do with my phone (2014) (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | by Steve Cichon | get smartphone → | tags: 95, buffalo, iphone

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Everything from 1991 Radio Shack ad I now do with my phone (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | by Steve Cichon | get smartphone → | tags: 95, buffalo, iphone

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Hot speaker deal: JBL Charge 6 hits new record-low price! (androidauthority.com)

2025-10-31 | get art supplies → | tags: 95, charge, jbl

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Fairphone’s new chargers are as fast as they are eco-friendly (androidauthority.com)

2025-10-31 | get smartphone → | tags: 95, cables, fairphone

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P-Hacking in Startups (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | by Lucas Da Costa | get VPN router → | tags: 05, 95, positive

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Fujifilm announces retro-styled X-E5 mirrorless digital camera (techspot.com)

2025-10-31 | by Shawn Knight | get digital camera → | tags: 95, body, e5