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Show HN: A zoomable, searchable archive of BYTE magazine

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401 points chromy | 2 comments | 26 Aug 25 15:34 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

A while ago I was looking for information on a obscure and short lived British computer.

I found an article[1] in the archives of BYTE magazine[2] - and was captivated immediately by the tech adverts of bygone eras.

This led to a long side project to be able to see all 100k pages of BYTE in a single searchable place.

[1]: https://byte.tsundoku.io/#198502-381

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17683184

1. trafnar ◴[26 Aug 25 19:20 UTC] No.45030993[source]▶
I wanted to suggest a tweak to this cool project: The panning and zooming feel very sluggish. I'm not sure if there's a technical reason it needs to be that way, but if the animation duration or spring used to control that can be made faster, it will feel much nicer to navigate around.
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2. mhdhn ◴[26 Aug 25 23:04 UTC] No.45033413[source]▶
On fastish home network (~300 Mbps) with middle-age MacBook Pro (2020), it's wonderfully snappy, not sluggish at all.