GoKawiil - Tech News

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Recycle – Floppydisks (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: floppydisks, packaging, disks

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Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: applications, drag, floppy

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Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | by Tyler August | tags: apple, dell, efficiency

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Atari ST Public Floppy Database now open for everyone — online archive originally designed for ST flash cart packed with classics and homebrew (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-08 | by Mark Tyson | tags: atari, atari st, database

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Commemorative golden Doom floppy disks go up for pre-order — pair of limited edition dummy ‘imitation gold plating’ disks and a box are $30 at GameStop (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-02 | by Mark Tyson | tags: doom, fanattik, gamestop

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A new coding contest challenges developers to fit an entire game onto a 1.44MB floppy disk (techspot.com)

2026-07-20 | by Alfonso Maruccia | tags: floppy disk, 2p game arcade, game development

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Korean outfit hosting 1.44MB game development contest to honor the floppy disk — entrants must confine entire fileset, including resources, engine, and library, to miniscule storage format (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-18 | by Mark Tyson | tags: floppy disk, game development, 2p_game_arcade

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85.3 GFlops: Optimizing FP32 Matrix Multiplication on a Single AMD Zen 3 Core (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-17 | tags: amd, zen 3, fp32

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Future Nostalgia Project asks retro hoarders to ‘Copy That Floppy!’ — flips the early 1990s anti-piracy campaign on its head to encourage budding archivists (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-09 | by Mark Tyson | tags: drive, floppy, hardware

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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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We Are the Last People Who Know How It Works (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-30 | by Cyrus Lopez | get Raspberry Pi 4 Kit → | tags: autoexec.bat, floppy disk, modem

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HamsterOS: A graphical desktop OS that fits on a 1.44MB floppy (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-29 | by Donald Papp | tags: hamsteros, greasweazle, vintage hardware

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China Reclaims Fastest Supercomputer At 2 Exaflops (slashdot.org)

2026-06-23 | get Cray XC50 Supercomputer → | tags: china, supercomputer, exaflops

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China takes back top spot in latest supercomputer ranking (engadget.com)

2026-06-23 | by Steve Dent | get HPC Gaming Desktop → | tags: china, lineshine, supercomputer

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An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-19 | get Linux on a Floppy Disk → | tags: floppinux, linux kernel, intel 486dx

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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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86Box v6.0 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-31 | get 86Box Emulator Software → | tags: 86box, hardware, networking

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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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Making deep learning go brrrr from first principles (2022) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-23 | get Deep Learning Textbook → | tags: pytorch, deep learning, overfitting

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Making Deep Learning Go Brrrr from First Principles (2022) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-23 | get Deep Learning Neural Network Kit → | tags: pytorch, deep learning, overfitting

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Making Deep Learning Go Brrrr from First Principles (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-23 | get Deep Learning Starter Kit → | tags: pytorch, deep learning, overfitting

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Grok Is a Flop, But It May Not Matter to Elon Musk (gizmodo.com)

2026-05-12 | get Tesla Model 3 → | tags: grok, elon musk, data centers

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Training an LLM in Swift, Part 1: Taking matrix mult from Gflop/s to Tflop/s (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-10 | by Matt Gallagher | get Swift for TensorFlow Guide → | tags: apple silicon, large language model, matrix multiplication

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Everyone says this movie is terrible and it’s still about to make $70 million (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-04-22 | get Box Office Tracking Chart → | tags: michael biopic, box office, opening weekend

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Soul Player C64 – A real transformer running on a 1 MHz Commodore 64 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-20 | get Commodore 64 Mini → | tags: commodore 64, soul player c64, 6502 assembly

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Remembering Zip Drives - the Trendy Storage Technology of the 1990s (slashdot.org)

2026-04-19 | by Posted | get USB Flash Drive → | tags: zip drive, iomega, floppy disk

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Engineer installs 3.5-inch floppy drive in a Tesla — modern EV recognizes and runs ancient storage device, even plays an MP3 file from diskette (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-10 | by Jowi Morales | get USB to Floppy Drive Adapter → | tags: tesla, linux kernel, floppy drive

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Will I ever own a zettaflop? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-06 | by The Singularity Is Nearer | tags: zettaflop, exaflop, nvidia