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This clever app turns photos of everyday objects into an aesthetic file system (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-09-02 | tags: archiv, fire hydrants, app

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2004 RuneScape fit a multiplayer RPG into 56k dial-up (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-01 | tags: runescape, jagex, 56k modem

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Physically Immutable Optical Archive Libraries (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-30 | tags: optical archive, libraries, physically immutable

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Select * from Internet.blogposts (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-27 | tags: nitter, atproto, tim berners lee

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The Feeling of Power (Asimov, 1958) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-26 | tags: internet archive, nonprofit, online donations

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Anna's Archive Owes $340 Million, Lost Several Domains, but It's Still Online (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-24 | tags: anna's archive, domain seizure, music companies

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World's largest open library calls for volunteers to scan and preserve physical books as AI companies buy, scan, and destroy them — Anna's Archive says ‘time is running out’ as ‘knowledge is permanently monopolized on private servers’ (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-21 | by Jowi Morales | tags: anna's archive, anthropic, ai companies

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AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-21 | tags: ai companies, archive, books

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Norway Should Buy OpenAI (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-18 | by Zachary Jones | tags: openai, neural networks, silicon valley

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Judge Sets Framework For Nine PBS to Retrieve 70 Years of Archival TV Data (slashdot.org)

2026-08-17 | tags: pbs, archival tv, ozymandias

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Judge clears Nine PBS to retrieve 70 years of archival TV data — court rules station owns 50TB of data in Iron Mountain servers after host went under (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-17 | by Mark Tyson | tags: nine pbs, iron mountain, open source storage

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Nine PBS lost access to 50TB of archives after its cloud storage provider vanished (techspot.com)

2026-08-14 | by Daniel Sims | tags: nine pbs, open source storage, iron mountain

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Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-13 | tags: 0.mk, web links, link decay

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PBS Station Sues to Regain Access to 70 Years of Archival TV History (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-13 | tags: pbs, st. louis, cloud storage

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AI crawlers from Meta and Alibaba almost destroyed a volunteer-run LGBT history archive (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-13 | tags: meta, alibaba, ai crawlers

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Spin audit of SQD/QSCI quantum-chemistry benchmarks on iron–sulfur clusters (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-06 | by Pure State Labs | tags: archive, audit, based quantum

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Man and the Computer by John G. Kemeny (1972 book by the co-creator of BASIC) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-29 | tags: john kemeny, basic, internet archive

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Usenet Archive Toolkit – process Usenet messages into a searchable archive (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-28 | tags: usenet, archive.org, tbrowser

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Apple Park Visitor Center partially closed for store improvements (9to5mac.com)

2026-07-22 | by Ben Lovejoy | tags: apple park, visitor center, augmented reality

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PeaZip 11.2.0 brings quality-of-life improvements across the app (techspot.com)

2026-07-13 | tags: archive, archives, features

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Show HN: 18 Words (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-09 | tags: archive, archive thanks, challenge

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Lost and Found (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-06 | get Tile Mate Bluetooth Tracker → | tags: accidental, accidental portraits, airport

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WinRAR 7.23 fixes bugs, jokes that users are finally paying for it (techspot.com)

2026-07-01 | get WinRAR 7.23 Software → | tags: winrar, rar, zip

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Computer-Aided Language Development in Nonspeaking Children (1968) [pdf] (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-28 | get Language Development Software → | tags: internet archive, cultural heritage, libraries

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Peek inside the archives of a titan of 20th century architecture (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-06-23 | get Architectural Archive Book → | tags: i.m. pei, mit, architecture

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Matt's Script Archive: The Scripts That Reshaped the Web (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-23 | tags: matts script archive, wwwboard, web forums

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Show HN: FastUbu – An Ultrafast Video Archive (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-22 | by Luke Igel | get 4K Ultra HD Video Recorder → | tags: ubuweb, ubu, dora maar

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The Atlantic created a searchable database of the music used to train AI (theverge.com)

2026-06-20 | by Terrence O'Brien | get AI Music Licensing Database → | tags: atlantic, alex reisner, ai training datasets

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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