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Razor1911
Razor 1911's eponymous demo celebrating 40 years of the group, which won first place at the Revision 2026 demo competition and the public's choice award. It is a retrospective of keygen and warez scene culture with chiptune music.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters point to it as an impressive showpiece of the demoscene and a nostalgic career retrospective of a legendary group.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Dubmood
- Topic
- demoscene
- Format
- music
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2026–2026
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.
This is so sick! Revision faded out the credits part, which is still really cool on its own. The full version (10m 16s) can be viewed at [VIDEO]
uzyn on Hacker News · 2026-04
In Razor1911. A demo 40 years in the makingIt's so cool to see that some of these groups are still making incredible pieces of digital art as recently as this year! This Razor1911 career retrospective demo from Revision was pretty impressive: [VIDEO]
RIMR on Hacker News · 2026-06
In Keygen.musicWhat a great thing to add to this: [VIDEO] I'm not from this era and this article explains a lot of things from the video!
MatMercer on Hacker News · 2026-07
In User Interfaces of the Demo Scene
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.
