Top all-time · #14322
Auvik
Company blog · auvik.com/franklyit/bloghardwarebusiness
Auvik is the company blog at auvik.com, writing about hardware and business. Since 2020, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Going Online Like it’s 1979: The Atari 800”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link Auvik's blog post on using an Atari 800 online in a modern setting, as a related reference in threads about long-lived computers. No one comments on the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Auvik is cloud-based network management software for today’s changing workforce. Gain true network visibility and control. Use Auvik free for 14 days.
Most-linked posts?
- Going Online Like it’s 1979: The Atari 8002 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-22
What Hacker News says?
That was almost certainly the Intel Avoton clock degradation issue. It hit Cisco and lots of other networking vendors too. I lost Supermicro and ASRock boards to the same thing. Soldering on the resistor gets the CLK circuit back into spec for a while, but I had an officially-repaired board eventually fail again in the same way after a few more years since it keeps degrading. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=135…
Comment linking /franklyit/blog/vendors-clock-signal-flaw-intel-atom-c2000/
on “Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs”Submitted Going Online Like it’s 1979: The Atari 800 as a story · 81 points
HN discussionA couple days ago there was a post [1] on using an Atari 800 in a modern setting which is a few years older than the TRS-80 [2], 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30033895 2. https://www.auvik.com/franklyit/blog/atari-800-online/
Comment linking /franklyit/blog/atari-800-online/
on “The computer built to last 50 years (2021)”Submitted Atari Portfolio: Going Online Like It's 1989 – Auvik as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Network Stock Photos So Terrible They’re Great as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
