Articles by rfarley04
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In 1985 Maxell built a bunch of life-size robots for its bad floppy ad (buttondown.com/suchbadtechads)

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A handful of wholesomely bad ads for 90s SPARC clones (buttondown.com/suchbadtechads)

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The hottest job in tech: Writing words (businessinsider.com)

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Malaysia and Indonesia Block Elon Musk's Grok (cnbc.com)

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Some not-so-bad ads from 80s computer magazines: Christmas edition (buttondown.com/suchbadtechads)

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The Fantasy Life of Coder Boys (2003) (wired.com)

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The strangest Excel functions you'll never use (makeuseof.com)

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USR's campaigns for the Password Modem were historically bad ads (buttondown.com/suchbadtechads)

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Everyone enjoys fewer lunch options (or, why I love pairwise comparisons) (woolean.com)

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There aren't a lot of Pearson correlations on HN's front page (pithandpip.com)

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V for Vendetta Will Return to Cinemas for Its 20th Anniversary in 2026 (ign.com)

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The Last Messiah by Peter Wessel-Zapffe [pdf] (openairphilosophy.org)

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A (1995) company that made nothing but bad ads (buttondown.com/suchbadtechads)

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3D Printed "Book" Demonstrates Mechanical Actions (hackaday.com)

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Show HN: Woolean – Pairwise comparisons without any LLM features (woolean.com)

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A bad ad for a device that photographed CRTs (buttondown.com/suchbadtechads)

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Data on AI-related Show HN posts (ryanfarley.co)

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The PowerPad tablet was pretty cool! Its ad in PC World 1984 was...not (buttondown.com/suchbadtechads)

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E-COM: The $40M USPS project to send email on paper (buttondown.com/blog)

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Famous Authors on Roller Coasters (2022) (mcsweeneys.net)

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Microsoft fires engineers who protested during company's 50th anniversary (cnbc.com)

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The Andrew Project – Multimedia Messaging Before MIME (wikipedia.org)

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Double opt-in emails go back as far as LISTERV in 1993 (buttondown.com/blog)

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EU regs get Garmin to add encryption to HR strap data (dcrainmaker.com)

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Ask HN: How many apps would it take to reach 90% of the people in your country?

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Properties of Pandigital Numbers (each base digit appearing only once) (wikipedia.org)

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The time Dick Spam Depew spammed Usenet with his antispam moderation spam (1993) (groups.google.com)

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Throbac: THrifty Roman numeral BAckwards-looking Computer (mitmuseum.mit.edu)

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"There is lingering affection for the challenge of breaking someone's system" (rfc-editor.org)

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Ask HN: Which apps tell you about which shoulders of giants they stand on

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Ask HN: Why Crowdstrike posts no rank more better

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DevRel and Sales Avoidance as Praxis (buttondown.email/blog)

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TIL WebCrawler (search) is still live? (webcrawler.com)

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Circulating Libraries (wikipedia.org)

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Ask HN: What are your favorite meme moments in tech history

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What's better for the climate: A paper book, or an e-reader? (npr.org)

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Zohn Ahl: The game that inspired Landlord Game that inspired Monopoly (wikipedia.org)

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Neural Wristband for AR/VR Input Will Ship "In the Next Few Years" (uploadvr.com)

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Taco Bell Hosted Its Own E3 (ign.com)

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Bangkok's subway just added a slide next to the station's escalators (twitter.com/rattapoom_k)

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Ask HN: Why does a YouTube [video] channel show above "YouTube Music" (search)

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Spray water on posion gas for double the awful (twitter.com/thaienquirer)

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"Write for humans" is garbage advice for SaaS blogging (pithandpip.com)