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In 1985 Maxell built a bunch of life-size robots for its bad floppy ad

https://buttondown.com/suchbadtechads/archive/maxell-life-size-robots/
34•rfarley04•3d ago

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bitwize•1h ago
I vaguely remember these but I more clearly remember the Samsung ad which featured a similar looking robot in a dress turning letters on a gameshow, implying that Samsung would still be around even after Vanna White was replaced by a machine. Vanna White sued, claiming a breach of her publicity rights (despite her name, the name "Wheel of Fortune", or her actual likeness not being used) and actually prevailed in court, establishing a precedent in the United States that very broadly protects celebrities' rights to control whether and how they are represented.
luxuryballs•6m ago
> Except the glaring mistake of putting “3½” microdisk” in the copy when there are 5¼” floppies on the table.

The MF 2-DD box shown is 3.5, I think they just used the bigger disks on the table because they are much better props for the video.

CasNum

https://github.com/0x0mer/CasNum
98•aebtebeten•2h ago•17 comments

A decade of Docker containers

https://cacm.acm.org/research/a-decade-of-docker-containers/
200•zacwest•5h ago•135 comments

Dumping Lego NXT firmware off of an existing brick (2025)

https://arcanenibble.github.io/dumping-lego-nxt-firmware-off-of-an-existing-brick.html
112•theblazehen•1d ago•5 comments

Effort to prevent government officials from engaging in prediction markets

https://www.merkley.senate.gov/merkley-klobuchar-launch-new-effort-to-ban-federal-elected-officia...
119•stopbulying•1h ago•40 comments

FLASH radiotherapy's bold approach to cancer treatment

https://spectrum.ieee.org/flash-radiotherapy
171•marc__1•7h ago•51 comments

Ki Editor - an editor that operates on the AST

https://ki-editor.org/
338•ravenical•12h ago•119 comments

In 1985 Maxell built a bunch of life-size robots for its bad floppy ad

https://buttondown.com/suchbadtechads/archive/maxell-life-size-robots/
36•rfarley04•3d ago•2 comments

macOS code injection for fun and no profit (2024)

https://mariozechner.at/posts/2024-07-20-macos-code-injection-fun/
48•jstrieb•3d ago•5 comments

Does Apple‘s M5 Max Really “Destroy” a 96-Core Threadripper?

https://slashdot.org/submission/17345398/does-apples-m5-max-really-destroy-a-96-core-threadripper
33•dkechag•39m ago•11 comments

The Day NY Publishing Lost Its Soul

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-day-ny-publishing-lost-its-soul
12•wallflower•1h ago•4 comments

Compiling Prolog to Forth [pdf]

https://vfxforth.com/flag/jfar/vol4/no4/article4.pdf
83•PaulHoule•4d ago•8 comments

LLM Writing Tropes.md

https://tropes.fyi/tropes-md
8•walterbell•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: ANSI-Saver – A macOS Screensaver

https://github.com/lardissone/ansi-saver
80•lardissone•8h ago•26 comments

Re-creating the complex cuisine of prehistoric Europeans

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/recreating-the-complex-cuisine-of-prehistoric-europeans/
52•apollinaire•1d ago•21 comments

SigNoz (YC W21, open source Datadog) Is Hiring across roles

https://signoz.io/careers
1•pranay01•5h ago

UUID package coming to Go standard library

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/62026
338•soypat•20h ago•215 comments

Autoresearch: Agents researching on single-GPU nanochat training automatically

https://github.com/karpathy/autoresearch
5•simonpure•2h ago•0 comments

Bourdieu's theory of taste: a grumbling abrégé (2023)

https://dynomight.net/bourdieu/
31•sebg•2d ago•10 comments

Package Managers Need to Cool Down

https://nesbitt.io/2026/03/04/package-managers-need-to-cool-down.html
4•zdw•2d ago•0 comments

The yoghurt delivery women combatting loneliness in Japan

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260302-the-yoghurt-delivery-women-combatting-loneliness-in-j...
169•ranit•9h ago•120 comments

War prediction markets are a national-security threat

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/03/polymarket-insider-trading-going-get-people-killed...
140•fortran77•2h ago•87 comments

Self-Portrait by Ernst Mach (1886)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/self-portrait-by-ernst-mach-1886/
81•Hooke•1d ago•13 comments

PC processors entered the Gigahertz era today in the year 2000 with AMD's Athlon

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/pc-processors-entered-the-gigahertz-era-today-in-...
146•LorenDB•8h ago•119 comments

Ask HN: Would you use a job board where every listing is verified?

7•BelVisgarra•1h ago•8 comments

Helix: A post-modern text editor

https://helix-editor.com/
315•doener•22h ago•158 comments

48x32, a 1536 LED Game Computer (2023)

https://jacquesmattheij.com/48x32-introduction/
66•duck•2d ago•13 comments

Filesystems are having a moment

https://madalitso.me/notes/why-everyone-is-talking-about-filesystems/
161•malgamves•11h ago•97 comments

Show HN: µJS, a 5KB alternative to Htmx and Turbo with zero dependencies

https://mujs.org
92•amaury_bouchard•13h ago•30 comments

Verification debt: the hidden cost of AI-generated code

https://fazy.medium.com/agentic-coding-ais-adolescence-b0d13452f981
60•xfz•5h ago•63 comments

LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance criteria first

https://blog.katanaquant.com/p/your-llm-doesnt-write-correct-code
411•dnw•21h ago•368 comments