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Ask HN: How old is your data centre?

1•Theodores•3h ago
Does anyone work somewhere where there are racks full of vintage Sparc, PowerPC, MIPS or 486 machines, still working on their original tasks?

Or, has everything been replaced?

With a lot of talk on how much the AI build out is costing, I want to know if any of those vast server rooms of the past are still going, and, if so, what for?

Also, if there are any unusual factors such as cheap electricity that have enabled the old kit to keep going.

Mainframes are slightly different as we know there are some which have to keep going because the software is locked into the hardware and migration is near impossible, but server farms are not like that, everything can be upgraded without much difficulty to compatible boxes.

Hence, do you work with a remarkably old 'data centre' built many decades ago and not upgraded to the new shiny.

DirecTV screensavers will show AI-generated ads with your face in 2026

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/directv-screensavers-will-show-ai-generated-ads-with-your...
1•CharlesW•1m ago•0 comments

Raster Master v5.2 Sprite/Tile/Map Editor 85 Stars on GitHub

https://github.com/RetroNick2020/raster-master/releases/tag/v5.2R119
1•retronick2020•1m ago•0 comments

'I love Hitler': Leaked messages expose Young Republicans' racist chat

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/14/private-chat-among-young-gop-club-members-00592146
1•tastyface•2m ago•1 comments

Interior cancels largest solar project in North America

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/10/trump-interior-department-cancels-largest-solar-project-...
2•pseudolus•5m ago•0 comments

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotica

https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/14/sam-altman-says-chatgpt-will-soon-allow-erotica-for-adult-users/
1•academic_84572•6m ago•0 comments

When Existence is Inefficient (2022)

https://inference-review.com/article/when-existence-is-inefficient
2•aleph_minus_one•7m ago•0 comments

SQL Server Management Studio 22 Has ARM64 Support

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/sqlserver/announcing-the-release-of-sql-server-managemen...
1•vyrotek•12m ago•0 comments

Meta Erases Gaza Journalist's Instagram

https://twitter.com/DropSiteNews/status/1977795050206576763
11•cramsession•13m ago•1 comments

Building and scaling Notion's data lake

https://www.notion.com/blog/building-and-scaling-notions-data-lake
3•olayiwoladekoya•13m ago•0 comments

Nanonets-OCR2-3B – VLM that transforms documents into structured Markdown

https://huggingface.co/nanonets/Nanonets-OCR2-3B
7•PixelPanda•15m ago•3 comments

Killing the GIL: How to Use Python 3.14's Free-Threading Upgrade

https://www.neelsomaniblog.com/p/killing-the-gil-how-to-use-python
2•nsomani•27m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Thoughts on the New Unplugged Up Phone?

1•ibejoeb•28m ago•0 comments

Augment Code: 22.5% of our users are consuming 20x what they're currently paying

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3•jrflowers•30m ago•0 comments

Nvidia's 'Personal AI Supercomputer'

https://www.theverge.com/news/798775/nvidia-spark-personal-ai-supercomputer
3•kristianpaul•32m ago•0 comments

El Luchador a Page-Aware AI Sidebar for Chrome

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1•sebastianrw•33m ago•1 comments

Patch Tuesday, October 2025 'End of 10' Edition

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/10/patch-tuesday-october-2025-end-of-10-edition/
1•todsacerdoti•37m ago•0 comments

JavaScript Library Runs Machine Learning Models in Browser

https://thenewstack.io/javascript-library-runs-machine-learning-models-in-browser/
1•afrinxnahar•39m ago•0 comments

How the Iframe Tag Changed the World

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2•aanthonymax•41m ago•1 comments

Soviet-Era Computer Is Both a Mystery and a Disaster

https://hackaday.com/2023/05/07/soviet-era-computer-is-both-a-mystery-and-a-disaster/
2•stmw•44m ago•0 comments

Beads: Coding Agent Memory Upgrade

https://github.com/steveyegge/beads
1•jemiluv8•44m ago•0 comments

Wes Anderson shot a movie in San Francisco [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2P9PZwi8W4
1•nonconstant•44m ago•1 comments

Common yeast can survive Martian conditions

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3•geox•44m ago•0 comments

RenameForce

https://renameforce.com/
1•codeulike•48m ago•0 comments

ReCAPTCHA migration to Google Cloud by the end of 2025: what do you need to do

https://privatecaptcha.com/blog/recaptcha-migration-to-google-cloud-2025/
1•ribtoks•1h ago•0 comments

'Under tremendous pressure': Newsom vetoes long-awaited AI chatbot bill

https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/newsom-vetoes-ai-chatbot-bill-21099045.php
6•voxadam•1h ago•3 comments

Convergent CTOS Source Files

https://bitsavers.org/bits/Convergent/ngen/CTOS_source/
1•CTOSian•1h ago•0 comments

AI and the Digital Content Provider's Dilemma

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3•lindenksv1•1h ago•0 comments

GrapheneOS is finally ready to break free from Pixels and it may never look back

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54•MaximilianEmel•1h ago•27 comments

A Review of Bio-Inspired Perching Mechanisms for Flapping-Wing Robots

https://www.mdpi.com/2313-7673/10/10/666
1•PaulHoule•1h ago•0 comments

Google's Pixel 10 Pro Fold explodes during durability testing

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6•didntknowyou•1h ago•1 comments