4K Restoration: 1984 Super Bowl APPLE MACINTOSH Ad by Ridley Scott
Why Hacker News recommends it
Not recommended as a watch; HN cites the ad as shorthand for orderly conformity and as an example of an ad that has aged badly.
What it is
A 4K upscaled restoration of Apple's 1984 Macintosh Super Bowl ad directed by Ridley Scott. The restoration combines various sources and an AI upscaler.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2024 to 2026.
What Hacker News said
Cites PaulHoule · 2025-05 · on “Ask HN: Is "Vibe Coding" a term people are using with pride?”
I think the first people to use that phrase were advocates for it. You have to remember that a lot of people in the industry have ass-backwards values. A lot of people squee when they see chaos and the more chaos the better. When things are orderly they feel like they are in the Apple '1984' video [this video] It's got a lot to do with why Docker is so popular. Instead of deciding that you're going to use a certain version of libc and a certain version of Java and a certain version of MUI widgets, they take joy in having many different partitions of the system slightly different from others in ways that will cause all sort of problem large and small. If you standardized things you could run multi
Critical gowld · 2026-02 · on “Claude Is a Space to Think”
Apple's ad had a woman dressed like a Hooter's waitress to represent themselves. That makes themselves the focus of attention. [this video]
Critical joriJordan · 2026-02 · on “CIA suddenly stops publishing, removes archives of The World Factbook”
Wild. Growing up through Reagan, I saw the world only act like this. Apple's 1984 commercial didn't age well: [this video] Everyone ran towards this Brave New World based on media fueled populism. To me religion isn't Christianity or Islam. It's following orders of arbitrary leaders who give themselves titles via narrative. Priest, Minister, CEO, General... just words. Provenance such as "this is what I want to do with my life" are poor justification for enabling it.