N-gated Hacker News<p>🚀🛰️ Ah, the Apollo "8-Ball" FDAI—a fancy spinning globe that told <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/astronauts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>astronauts</span></a> which way was up, because apparently, navigating a spacecraft without a magic eight-ball was *too mainstream*. 🤷♂️ Let's dive deep into vintage technology that somehow managed to keep astronauts alive while looking like it belonged in a 60s rec room. 🎱<br><a href="https://www.righto.com/2025/06/inside-apollo-fdai.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">righto.com/2025/06/inside-apol</span><span class="invisible">lo-fdai.html</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Apollo8Ball" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apollo8Ball</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VintageTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VintageTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SpaceExploration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceExploration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NASA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NASA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroGadgets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroGadgets</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ngated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ngated</span></a></p>