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Monzo wrongly denied refunds to fraud and scam victims

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/feb/07/monzo-natwest-hsbc-refunds-fraud-scam-fos-ombudsman
1•tablets•3m ago•0 comments

They were drawn to Korea with dreams of K-pop stardom – but then let down

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgnq9rwyqno
1•breve•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI-Powered Merchant Intelligence

https://nodee.co
1•jjkirsch•8m ago•0 comments

Bash parallel tasks and error handling

https://github.com/themattrix/bash-concurrent
1•pastage•8m ago•0 comments

Let's compile Quake like it's 1997

https://fabiensanglard.net/compile_like_1997/index.html
1•billiob•9m ago•0 comments

Reverse Engineering Medium.com's Editor: How Copy, Paste, and Images Work

https://app.writtte.com/read/gP0H6W5
1•birdculture•14m ago•0 comments

Go 1.22, SQLite, and Next.js: The "Boring" Back End

https://mohammedeabdelaziz.github.io/articles/go-next-pt-2
1•mohammede•20m ago•0 comments

Laibach the Whistleblowers [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Mx2mxpaCY
1•KnuthIsGod•21m ago•1 comments

Slop News - HN front page right now hallucinated as 100% AI SLOP

https://slop-news.pages.dev/slop-news
1•keepamovin•26m ago•1 comments

Economists vs. Technologists on AI

https://ideasindevelopment.substack.com/p/economists-vs-technologists-on-ai
1•econlmics•28m ago•0 comments

Life at the Edge

https://asadk.com/p/edge
2•tosh•34m ago•0 comments

RISC-V Vector Primer

https://github.com/simplex-micro/riscv-vector-primer/blob/main/index.md
3•oxxoxoxooo•38m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Invoxo – Invoicing with automatic EU VAT for cross-border services

2•InvoxoEU•38m ago•0 comments

A Tale of Two Standards, POSIX and Win32 (2005)

https://www.samba.org/samba/news/articles/low_point/tale_two_stds_os2.html
2•goranmoomin•42m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Is the Downfall of SaaS Started?

3•throwaw12•43m ago•0 comments

Flirt: The Native Backend

https://blog.buenzli.dev/flirt-native-backend/
2•senekor•45m ago•0 comments

OpenAI's Latest Platform Targets Enterprise Customers

https://aibusiness.com/agentic-ai/openai-s-latest-platform-targets-enterprise-customers
1•myk-e•47m ago•0 comments

Goldman Sachs taps Anthropic's Claude to automate accounting, compliance roles

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/anthropic-goldman-sachs-ai-model-accounting.html
3•myk-e•50m ago•5 comments

Ai.com bought by Crypto.com founder for $70M in biggest-ever website name deal

https://www.ft.com/content/83488628-8dfd-4060-a7b0-71b1bb012785
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•51m ago•1 comments

Big Tech's AI Push Is Costing More Than the Moon Landing

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-spending-tech-companies-compared-02b90046
4•1vuio0pswjnm7•53m ago•0 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
2•1vuio0pswjnm7•54m ago•0 comments

Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dcFhF0Dlk
1•askl•56m ago•2 comments

Ask HN: How are researchers using AlphaFold in 2026?

1•jocho12•59m ago•0 comments

Running the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" Compiler

https://spawn-queue.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3786614
1•devooops•1h ago•0 comments

Watermark API – $0.01/image, 10x cheaper than Cloudinary

https://api-production-caa8.up.railway.app/docs
1•lembergs•1h ago•1 comments

Now send your marketing campaigns directly from ChatGPT

https://www.mail-o-mail.com/
1•avallark•1h ago•1 comments

Queueing Theory v2: DORA metrics, queue-of-queues, chi-alpha-beta-sigma notation

https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/queueing-theory
1•jph•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Hibana – choreography-first protocol safety for Rust

https://hibanaworks.dev/
5•o8vm•1h ago•1 comments

Haniri: A live autonomous world where AI agents survive or collapse

https://www.haniri.com
1•donangrey•1h ago•1 comments

GPT-5.3-Codex System Card [pdf]

https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/23eca107-a9b1-4d2c-b156-7deb4fbc697c/GPT-5-3-Codex-System-Card-02.pdf
1•tosh•1h ago•0 comments
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Wine 10.16 (Dev) – Run Windows Applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS

https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-10.16
43•neustradamus•4mo ago

Comments

Razengan•4mo ago
People writing emulators are the unsung heroes of tech and art preservation /salute
freedomben•4mo ago
Obligatory wine is not an emulator.

But yeah I agree, wine is an awesome emulator, and these people are heroes

xyzzy_plugh•4mo ago
You're practically begging for it...

Wine Is Not an Emulator!

Wowfunhappy•4mo ago
It obviously is an emulator though (which uses entirely HLE). Notably, Wine doesn't use the acronym anymore (about page prefixes with "originally known as").
okanat•4mo ago
It is not a traditional emulator which is a virtual machine that executes foreign bytecode or ar least uses a virtual hardware setup. QEMU fits that sense of emulator. Wine doesn't.

Wine lets userspace code to be executed as is with the full permissions of the host system. It is more like an alternative executable format support package / subsystem. It needs to emulate the Windows system DLL calls, but everything else is no different than loading a piece of ELF executable and jumping into it.

csb6•4mo ago
This is true but it is pedantic. When people say “emulator” they usually mean “software that lets me run a program on platforms other than the original intended platform”. They don’t care about the implementation details. At some point we need to internally correct minor errors of terminology because the meaning is clear in context.
SapporoChris•4mo ago
How are you able to distinguish when people use a word as it is defined from when they redefine it to something else?

For myself, I make every attempt to use words correctly.

stuaxo•4mo ago
True, though as soon as they supported Power PC Mac, emulators have been integrated with it as needed.
stevefan1999•4mo ago
Wine is not an emulator, as it runs unmodified PE executable by mocking the ABI calls, translating them to Linux equivalent. You can say it is like Windows on Linux, just like Windows on Windows 64, otherwise, WoW64 would be considered an emulator.

The only difference is that only programs that fully uses userspace works, and anything that uses kernel driver will fail miserably. In this sense, games worked out the best because they usually have high level of independence and self-contained, with hardware abstraction layers to make things highly compatible.

If you want to talk about similar stuff, FreeBSD have a Linux compatibility layer similar to Wine. You can use that as a reference, despite both FreeBSD and Linux use ELF, and Windows use PE.

But to be honest at the end of the day, it's just program header describing code sections, library imports/exports and relocations, and this is why you can run Windows app on Linux basically untouched, given you can reverse engineer userspace Windows API calls 100% precisely.

And the legal aspect of it, well...

Also, there is a project called Winlator (https://github.com/brunodev85/winlator) that combines Wine + Box64/Box86 to run x86 games on Wine on Android. Now that is what I call an emulator since Box64/Box86 really is one.

Razengan•4mo ago
Shush it lets me play Monkey Island on a Mac it’s an emulator
potamic•4mo ago
Why isn't there something similar for running OSX apps on linux? Should be easier than wine in theory because it's unix based?
yjftsjthsd-h•4mo ago
There is: https://www.darlinghq.org/

(It is, unfortunately, newer and much less far along, probably purely because there's less dev-hours and dollars in it)

stevefan1999•4mo ago
Yes, of course it can be done, but instead of dealing with PE, now you have to deal with Mach-O
throwaway2046•4mo ago
Wine has seen a massive improvement since the introduction of WoW64, and now it apparently supports 16-bit programs too. Many thanks to the Wine devs who made this possible.
drnick1•4mo ago
It's amazing how far Wine has come. Proton combines Wine with DVXK and other libraries and allows to play practically any Windows game on Linux with a negligible performance hit. I remember using Proton around 2021 and it already worked fairly well but now the experience is incredibly smooth. 2025 is definitely the year of the Linux gaming desktop.
Wowfunhappy•4mo ago
Has it gotten better at running applications, as opposed to games? That was the big thing that seemed to still be hit or miss last time I looked.
nxobject•4mo ago
Changelog item: "#21855 – Lotus Word Pro 9.8: Windows pull down does not show file names". Reported 2010, closed 2025...
typpilol•4mo ago
How that didn't get closed for being stale is amazing
drnick1•4mo ago
Linux is gaining ground on desktops so I expect that an increasing number of developers will make sure their apps run on Wine going forward, either by directly contributing to the project or by making the necessary changes in their own programs. I think so far it’s mostly gaming that benefited, because of Valve’s contributions, but generic desktop apps should be easier technically speaking.
Wowfunhappy•4mo ago
Are you trying to say that this is The Year of Linux on the Desktop? :)

(I’d love it to be true, it’s just, you know.)

frendiversity•4mo ago
> 2025 is definitely the year of the Linux gaming desktop.
yjftsjthsd-h•4mo ago
So I'm curious; the tagline/title is,

> Run Windows Applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS

Obviously it gets used a lot on Linux (not only because of SteamOS using it through Proton, but that certainly contributes), I think I've read about people using it on Darwin, but how much testing/use does it get on the BSDs and Solaris?

d3Xt3r•4mo ago
Can't speak for Solaris, but the BSDs do get some love from the Wine devs. There are even active BSD gaming communities to make BSD gaming viable, much like Linux+Proton! https://youtu.be/vQpI7SU921A