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Not Everything Is on the Internet (2024)

https://www.bruh.ltd/blog/not-everything-is-on-the-internet/
13•surprisetalk•6mo ago

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orionblastar•6mo ago
Agreed, the Vatican has collected books on the Native American and Pagan religions locked up in their vaults, along with books that didn't fit with the official bible.

The BeOS software archive is also down, and I tried to save it on the Internet Archive but got banned, and the BeOS software was removed. Unless somebody else saved it. People still use old computers that can run old software, called retrocomputing.

zzo38computer•6mo ago
These are accurate. There are many things that I have failed to find, for, as far as I can tell, all of the reasons listed there (often more than one at once), and probably more. There are some other possible reasons, although most of them could probably be classified as one or more of the reasons listed there.

There are some more possibilities (some of these can probably already be classified as the ones mentioned there):

- It was communicated using the internet by a private (or sometimes also public) communication that has not been logged (e.g. a IRC or email communication).

- It is indexed by search engines that you do not use but not by the search engines that you do use.

- They use a CAPTCHA or other program that does not work on your computer.

- You do not have version 6 internet. (This is an issue of the internet service provider, which does not seem to be one of the reasons they listed.)

- You get a NXDOMAIN error when trying to access it. (This is a problem with the DNS service. This happened to me when trying to access some files using Gemini protocol. I was able to get it to work by asking someone else for the correct IP address and then adding them into the hosts file.)

- Too many people disagree with it that it makes it difficult to find.

nicbou•6mo ago
More and more things won't be on the internet. Google and OpenAI are actively destroying the economics of putting new information online.

Why bother running a blog if their AI slurps up your posts and denies you the traffic? Why create things that no longer get indexed by Google, let alone served in the search results? So much information has become impossible to find, with the search engine reinterpreting your query and serving the blandest slop.

GianFabien•6mo ago
There are pre-2000 information, books, journals, microfilm, film slides, videotapes, videodisks, etc that were not considered to be interesting by tech folks. Those never got digitized and now they are too fragile to attempt to do so.

My First Impressions of MeshCore Off-Grid Messaging

https://mtlynch.io/first-impressions-of-meshcore/
1•mtlynch•1m ago•0 comments

I built a tool to restore old family photos without ruining them with AI

https://forevi.ai
1•poznerd•1m ago•1 comments

Designing Electronics That Works

https://nostarch.com/designingelectronics
1•0x54MUR41•1m ago•0 comments

Most LLM cost isn't compute – it's identity drift (110-cycle GPT-4o benchmark)

https://github.com/sigmastratum/documentation/blob/main/sigma-runtime/SR-EI-03/benchmark_report_S...
1•teugent•2m ago•1 comments

Show HN: PlanEat AI, an AI iOS app for weekly meal plans and smart grocery lists

1•franklinm1715•2m ago•0 comments

A Post-Incident Control Test for External AI Representation

https://zenodo.org/records/17921051
1•businessmate•3m ago•1 comments

اdifference gbps overview find answers

1•shahrtjany•4m ago•0 comments

Measuring Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Dev Productivity

https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09089
1•vismit2000•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Lazy Demos

http://demoscope.app/lazy
1•admtal•6m ago•0 comments

AI-Driven Facial Recognition Leads to Innocent Man's Arrest (Bodycam Footage) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9M4F_U1eEw
1•niczem•7m ago•1 comments

Annual Production of 1/72 (22mm) scale plastic soldiers, 1958-2025

https://plasticsoldierreview.com/ShowFeature.aspx?id=27
1•YeGoblynQueenne•8m ago•0 comments

Error-Handling and Locality

https://www.natemeyvis.com/error-handling-and-locality/
1•Theaetetus•9m ago•0 comments

Petition for David Sacks to Self-Deport

https://form.jotform.com/253464131055147
1•resters•9m ago•0 comments

Get found where people search today

https://kleonotus.com/
1•makenotesfast•12m ago•1 comments

Show HN: An early-warning system for SaaS churn (not another dashboard)

https://firstdistro.com
1•Jide_Lambo•12m ago•1 comments

Tell HN: Musk has never *tweeted* a guess for real identity of Satoshi Nakamoto

1•tokenmemory•13m ago•2 comments

A Practical Approach to Verifying Code at Scale

https://alignment.openai.com/scaling-code-verification/
1•gmays•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: macOS tool to restore window layouts

https://github.com/zembutsu/tsubame
1•zembutsu•17m ago•0 comments

30 Years of <Br> Tags

https://www.artmann.co/articles/30-years-of-br-tags
2•FragrantRiver•24m ago•0 comments

Kyoto

https://github.com/stevepeak/kyoto
2•handfuloflight•25m ago•0 comments

Decision Support System for Wind Farm Maintenance Using Robotic Agents

https://www.mdpi.com/2571-5577/8/6/190
1•PaulHoule•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: X-AnyLabeling – An open-source multimodal annotation ecosystem for CV

https://github.com/CVHub520/X-AnyLabeling
1•CVHub520•28m ago•0 comments

Penpot Docker Extension

https://www.ajeetraina.com/introducing-the-penpot-docker-extension-one-click-deployment-for-self-...
1•rainasajeet•29m ago•0 comments

Company Thinks It Can Power AI Data Centers with Supersonic Jet Engines

https://www.extremetech.com/science/this-company-thinks-it-can-power-ai-data-centers-with-superso...
1•vanburen•32m ago•0 comments

If AIs can feel pain, what is our responsibility towards them?

https://aeon.co/essays/if-ais-can-feel-pain-what-is-our-responsibility-towards-them
3•rwmj•36m ago•5 comments

Elon Musk's xAI Sues Apple and OpenAI over App Store Drama

https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-xai-lawsuit-apple-openai
1•paulatreides•39m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Build it yourself SWE blogs?

1•bawis•39m ago•1 comments

Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code

https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11
3•Fiveplus•45m ago•0 comments

How Did the CIA Lose Nuclear Device?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/13/world/asia/cia-nuclear-device-himalayas-nanda-devi...
1•Wonnk13•45m ago•1 comments

Is vibe coding the new gateway to technical debt?

https://www.infoworld.com/article/4098925/is-vibe-coding-the-new-gateway-to-technical-debt.html
3•birdculture•49m ago•1 comments