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Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 04:53:47

As a bit of background, one of my hobbies is helping people recover data from old tape cartridges, such as QIC-80 tapes, which were a rather popular backup medium in the 1990s among individuals, small businesses, BBS operators, and the like. I have a soft spot for tape media; there’s something about the tactile sensation of holding these tapes in my hands that makes the whole process very joyful, even though QIC tapes are notorious for their many design flaws. With some careful inspection and re

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The world has a running Rational R1000/400 computer again (2019)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 03:46:55

2019-12-11 SCSI command 0x0d seems to be explained now: Søren Roug has spotted SASI command 0x0d in the manual for the Xebec S1410 diskcontroller: It returns the length of burst errors corrected with ECC. That matches the CMD_CORRECTION Tollef found. Thanks everybody! 2019-12-08 About that 0x0d SCSI command... My good friend Tollef Fog Heen replied on twitter that this source file on github calls the command CMD_CORRECTION. That github repository contains a NeXT Station emulation. The

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See How David Corenswet Became Superman in His Audition Tape

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-11-04 23:40:14

The world was abuzz with speculation just a few years ago when it came time for James Gunn to cast his new Superman. Even before the part ultimately went to David Corenswet, he was being floated around as a likely candidate, and now you can watch how he got the part. YouTube account 21Casting posted the actor’s audition tape, which he performed with his wife Julia Warner. The three-minute video features him as Clark Kent being interviewed as Superman by Lois Lane over his intervention in Biayla

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Watch Britt Lower’s self-recorded audition tape for ‘Severance’

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-11-14 10:16:45

If you listen to the Severance Podcast with Ben Stiller & Adam Scott, you probably remember the episode where Britt Lower, who plays Helly R., said she recorded her audition tape on her bathroom floor. Now, The Hollywood Reporter has published the tape, and it is impressive how spot-on she was from the get-go. Here’s Lower’s own account of how her audition tape came to be: “And you know, this was prior to COVID, so you were still doing in-person auditions at that time. And initially, you guys

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VHS, VCDs, and Laserdiscs in Southeast Asia

news.ycombinator.com Ruben Schade 2026-01-18 11:02:13

One of those factoids you often hear about Southeast Asia is that VCDs and Laserdiscs were more popular than VHS tapes. The cited reason is usually mould, on account of their tropical climates. But there was more to it. For starters, what are VCDs and Laserdiscs? One of them is an initialism, and the other one is a word that sometimes employs camelCase. Initialisms are distinct from acronyms, in that you don’t pronounce them as a word. Laser is an acronym, and ATM is an initialism. camelCased w

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Holographic ribbon aims to oust magnetic tape with 50-year life span and 200TB

news.ycombinator.com Mark Tyson 2026-01-25 12:58:24

Details behind HoloMem’s holographic tape innovations are beginning to come into clearer view. The UK-based startup recently chatted with Blocks & Files about its potentially disruptive technology for long-term cold storage. HoloMem is another emerging storage idea which relies on optical technology - to enable holographic storage. However, it cleverly melds the durability and density advantage of optical formats with a flexible polymer ribbon-loaded cartridge, so it can usurp entrenched LTO mag

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Brainwash '72 [video]

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-03 17:34:08

Probably the strangest thing I've found on a video tape. A quit-smoking "brainwashing" tape, my favourite bit is the whole long shot of a mysterious stranger walking through the desert only to reveal A •SPOILERS•. Content warning: there's some footage of someone getting operated on. It makes me feel all squooshy so I'm warning you. This came to me on a Umatic tape with a McDonalds label on it, perhaps a franchisee somewhere was trying to stop his staff smoking. Anyway, enjoy. --

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FedFlix — Public Domain Stock Footage Library

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-09 17:07:43

JOINT VENTURE BETWEEN AND Agreement No. NTIS-1832. Renewed and Amended April 28, 2009. Each month NTIS will select between ten and twenty non-copyrighted videotapes from available stock in its collection and ship them to PRO at its own expense. Immediately upon receipt, PRO will, at its own expense, digitize the videotape and return the videotape and a copy in digital video disk (DVD) format to NTIS. The videotape and the DVD copy are both considered to be property of the United States Gove

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Show HN: RM2000 Tape Recorder, an audio sampler for macOS

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-07 22:20:59

© 2025 Marcelo Mendez RM2000 Tape Recorder works completely offline, stores all of your samples with longetivity in mind, and features a beautiful user interface. There are still many features yet to come out - stay tuned! I made this website myself with Astro. I hope you like it! Source RM2000 Tape Recorder is licensed under the Commons Clause + MIT. Source Privacy Policy Need direct support? Want to file a bug report? Please contact me: [email protected] Follow me on Ma

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Mixtape turned me back into a Millennial teenage dirtbag

engadget.com Unknown 2026-03-21 16:03:37

Mixtape is the answer to the question, “What if the movie High Fidelity was a video game?” It’s not a perfect analogy, but it’s pretty damn close, and either way it’s a sign that Mixtape is going to be a fabulous slice of late-1990s, early-2000s nostalgia, complete with a banging soundtrack. You can hear it in the trailers — Mixtape absolutely nails the classic Moviefone tone, and it seems that this vibe extends to the full game. I played roughly 30 minutes of Mixtape at Summer Game Fest 2025,

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Latest Tech News

Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver

The world has a running Rational R1000/400 computer again (2019)

See How David Corenswet Became Superman in His Audition Tape

Watch Britt Lower’s self-recorded audition tape for ‘Severance’

VHS, VCDs, and Laserdiscs in Southeast Asia

Holographic ribbon aims to oust magnetic tape with 50-year life span and 200TB

Brainwash '72 [video]

FedFlix — Public Domain Stock Footage Library

Show HN: RM2000 Tape Recorder, an audio sampler for macOS

Mixtape turned me back into a Millennial teenage dirtbag

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