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Copy That Floppy – Cambridge guide for preserving data from fragile floppy disks (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-08 | by Various Contributors | tags: disk, disks, drive

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Isotopic evidence for a cold and distant origin of 3I/ATLAS (feeds.nature.com)

2026-06-22 | by Cordiner | tags: 3i/atlas, interstellar comet, isotopic measurements

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The Web We Know Is Going to Disappear (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-16 | get Digital Privacy and Security Book → | tags: web, open standards, search engines

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The Floppy Disk patent was granted today in 1972 — when 80KB took up 8 inches and were really floppy (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-06 | by Mark Tyson | get 3.5 Inch Floppy Disk → | tags: disk, disks, floppies

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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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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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Discovering hard disk physical geometry through microbenchmarking (2019) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-30 | by Leela Kamalesh | get SSD Diagnostic Tool Kit → | tags: hard disk, microbenchmarking, disk geometry

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Relive the PC magazine cover disk era with 758-strong archive.org CD-ROM collection — 1.2TB treasure trove also includes Floppy Disks from as early as 1993 (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-20 | by Mark Tyson | get CD-ROM Collection Archive → | tags: pc gamer, internet archive, cover disks

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The archivist preserving decaying floppy disks (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-25 | by Mack Degeurin | get Floppy Disk → | tags: disks, floppies, floppy

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What's the difference between a "disc" and a "disk"? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-12 | get Hard Drive → | tags: disc, discs, disk

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Accretion bursts crystallize silicates in a planet-forming disk (feeds.nature.com)

2026-01-21 | by Lee | get Crystalline Silicate → | tags: astron, astron astrophys, astrophys

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Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-12 | get Discs → | tags: disks, disks turn, floppy

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These are the flying discs the government wants you to know about (arstechnica.com)

2025-12-19 | get Discs → | tags: aerospace, aerospace corporation, corporation

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Floppy Disk / Diskettes // retrocmp / retro computing (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | by Thomas Brase | get productivity planner → | tags: 25, 3m, disks

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Cambridge University launches project to rescue data trapped on old floppy disks (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | by Eleanor Parmenter | get science reference book → | tags: cambridge, digital, disks

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Synology caves, walks back some drive restrictions on upcoming NAS models (arstechnica.com)

2025-10-31 | get computer monitor → | tags: disks, drives, kind

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James Webb Finds Evidence of Free-Floating Planets So Large They Can Gather Their Own Planetary Systems (futurism.com)

2025-10-31 | get How to Win Friends book → | tags: disks, objects, planetary

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More than two hard disks in DOS (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | by Posted On | get Google Nest → | tags: bios, disks, dos

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Police disrupt “Diskstation” ransomware gang attacking NAS devices (bleepingcomputer.com)

2025-10-31 | get Microsoft Surface Laptop → | tags: access, diskstation, enforcement

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Synology masters both ease and control with BeeStation and DiskStation (9to5mac.com)

2025-10-31 | by Zac Hall | get iPhone → | tags: beestation, diskstation, ds925