mitchivin.com(mitchivin.com)

97 points by indigodaddy 1 year ago | 26 comments

Show HN: My Windows XP portfolio with working Game Boy and iPod(mitchivin.com)

53 points by mitchivin 4 months ago | 26 comments

Human Organ Atlas(human-organ-atlas.esrf.fr)

34 points by giuliomagnifico 7 months ago | 3 comments

Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop(explorer.samismith.com)

484 points by smusamashah 5 months ago | 111 comments

A web app that lets users browse Wikipedia through a simulated Windows XP desktop interface with icons for Wikipedia, Media, and a Geofile Explorer.

Show HN: Axiom – A math-native OS where x² is valid syntax (built from scratch)(fawazishola.ca)

18 points by fawazishola 8 months ago | 2 comments

Nothing to watch – Experimental gallery visualizing 50k film posters(nothing-to-watch.port80.ch)

126 points by bj-rn 1 year ago | 59 comments

Show HN: I spent 2 years building a personal finance simulator(projectionlab.com)

671 points by scubakid 3 years ago | 229 comments

Landing page for ProjectionLab, a personal finance planning tool for simulating financial futures and building retirement plans.

Windows XP Professional(win32.run)

389 points by pentagrama 1 year ago | 215 comments

win32.run is a browser-based recreation of Windows XP Professional, opening with a simulated BIOS boot menu screen.

Show HN: I built a virtual tabletop for playing Dungeons and Dragons(diceright.com)

354 points by YakiSauce 3 years ago | 101 comments

Landing page for DiceRight, a web-based virtual tabletop for playing Dungeons and Dragons online with friends.

I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the thing I loved has changed(jamesdrandall.com)

705 points by jamesrandall 8 months ago | 556 comments

Personal essay by a 50-year-old developer who began coding BASIC in 1983, reflecting on how the craft of programming has changed, including with AI.

What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?(devblogs.microsoft.com)

338 points by soheilpro 1 month ago | 165 comments

Raymond Chen's The Old New Thing post explaining how Windows XP picked a new user's initial account picture from the default pictures directory.

How I, a beginner developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me(anniemueller.com)

782 points by wonger_ 1 year ago | 363 comments

A humorous blog post parodying how developer-written tutorials full of jargon read to a non-developer beginner.