▲Macsurf, "modern" web browser for macOS 9(github.com)
80 points by gattilorenz 11 hours ago | 7 comments
▲bensyverson 2 hours ago
This is fantastic. To me, this is one of the greatest side-effects of agentic coding; adding new functionality to vintage, abandoned or obsolete hardware. It gives me hope for a solarpunk future where e-waste gets a more functional second life.
▲bbbbbbbbbbbvyt 41 minutes ago
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▲manytimesaway 2 hours ago
So, making obsolete hardware relevant by using the technology that's accelerating their "irrelevanceness" ?
▲yjftsjthsd-h 30 minutes ago
How is AI making old hardware obsolete faster?
▲bensyverson 1 hour ago
Life isn't black & white
▲hyperhello 2 hours ago
To me it proves that a technology can be understood and implemented by one person.
▲prokopton 2 hours ago
Can hardware became more obsolete?
▲Cyan488 4 hours ago
When I owned a iMac G3, the Classilla browser was surprisingly good. Looks like development ended in 2021.

Also, the branding was "Mac OS 9".

▲felixding 3 hours ago
Exactly. I don't know why some people'd change the branding.
▲ndiddy 2 hours ago
Apple keeps changing the name of their desktop operating system, so Hacker News has some sort of filter to automatically change "Mac OS" to whatever the newest name is in order to fit Apple's brand guidelines. This has the consequence of making some submission titles read as anachronistic when the sumission is about an old OS version.
▲Springtime 3 hours ago
The project didn't, only the HN submission title.
▲manoDev 2 hours ago
That's impressive, too bad modern web requires more than 2000x the transistor density to run JS at decent speed. We really f*** up.
▲simgt 4 hours ago
Cool! I've been wondering for some time if a good low-distraction but pleasant environment could be an old Mac OS on a (good looking) Hackintosh. The UI was baked with UX research at least.
▲Wowfunhappy 1 hour ago
It's a significantly newer Mac OS than Mac OS 9, but this is basically my life. Mavericksforever.com.
▲gcp123 4 hours ago
Freaking love it! Gonna put this on my 1998 Bondi Blue iMac G3 today.
▲hyperhello 4 hours ago
Absolutely love it.
▲iwontberude 3 hours ago
Time to fire up the ol PowerMac G4 MDD (last native support for Mac OS 9)