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Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share in USA

https://ostechnix.com/linux-reaches-5-desktop-market-share-in-usa/
257•marcodiego•1h ago•131 comments

Shipping WebGPU on Windows in Firefox 141

https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2025/07/15/shipping-webgpu-on-windows-in-firefox-141/
159•Bogdanp•6h ago•38 comments

Thunderbird: Fluent Windows 11 Design

https://github.com/Deathbyteacup/fluentbird
22•skipnup•3d ago•1 comments

Tilck: A Tiny Linux-Compatible Kernel

https://github.com/vvaltchev/tilck
168•chubot•8h ago•34 comments

Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-1-1-1-1-incident-on-july-14-2025/
295•nomaxx117•8h ago•184 comments

GPUHammer: Rowhammer attacks on GPU memories are practical

https://gpuhammer.com/
199•jonbaer•12h ago•65 comments

Gauntlet AI (YC S17): All expenses paid training in AI and $200k+job

https://www.crossover.com/jobs/5597/gauntlet-ai/ai-challenger/apply
1•austenallred•34m ago

Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer

https://prm.ua/en/ukrainian-hackers-destroyed-the-it-infrastructure-of-a-russian-drone-manufacturer-what-is-known/
222•doener•4h ago•141 comments

MARS.EXE → COM (2021)

https://chaos.if.uj.edu.pl/~wojtek/MARS.COM/
46•reconnecting•3d ago•12 comments

Six Years of Gemini

https://geminiprotocol.net/news/2025_06_20.gmi
152•brson•9h ago•60 comments

Show HN: DataRamen, a Fast SQL Explorer with Automatic Joins and Data Navigation

https://dataramen.xyz/
4•oleksandr_dem•54m ago•1 comments

LLM Daydreaming

https://gwern.net/ai-daydreaming
92•nanfinitum•10h ago•40 comments

Show HN: Shoggoth Mini – A soft tentacle robot powered by GPT-4o and RL

https://www.matthieulc.com/posts/shoggoth-mini
504•cataPhil•20h ago•95 comments

Documenting what you're willing to support (and not)

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2025/07/07/support/
46•zdw•3d ago•12 comments

Reflections on OpenAI

https://calv.info/openai-reflections
572•calvinfo•19h ago•319 comments

NIST ion clock sets new record for most accurate clock

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2025/07/nist-ion-clock-sets-new-record-most-accurate-clock-world
312•voxadam•20h ago•107 comments

Pixel Piranhas

https://rybakov.com/blog/pixel_piranhas/
12•spython•2d ago•4 comments

Where's Firefox going next?

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/where-s-firefox-going-next-you-tell-us/m-p/100698#M39094
235•ReadCarlBarks•15h ago•329 comments

The beauty entrepreneur who made the Jheri curl a sensation

https://thehustle.co/originals/the-beauty-entrepreneur-who-made-the-jheri-curl-a-sensation
25•Anon84•2d ago•4 comments

Running a million-board chess MMO in a single process

https://eieio.games/blog/a-million-realtime-chess-boards-in-a-single-process/
130•isaiahwp•4d ago•16 comments

To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head

https://the-nerve-blog.ghost.io/to-be-a-better-programmer-write-little-proofs-in-your-head/
371•mprast•19h ago•149 comments

The FIPS 140-3 Go Cryptographic Module

https://go.dev/blog/fips140
163•FiloSottile•15h ago•52 comments

Algorithms for making interesting organic simulations

https://bleuje.com/physarum-explanation/
88•todsacerdoti•2d ago•6 comments

My Family and the Flood

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-flood-firsthand-account/
195•herbertl•14h ago•63 comments

Nextflow: System for creating scalable, portable, reproducible workflows

https://github.com/nextflow-io/nextflow
29•saikatsg•7h ago•7 comments

Mostly dead influential programming languages (2020)

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/influential-dead-languages/
186•azhenley•3d ago•117 comments

The Story of Mel, A Real Programmer, Annotated (1996)

https://users.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel-annotated/node1.html#SECTION00010000000000000000
114•fanf2•3d ago•33 comments

Congress moves to reject bulk of White House's proposed NASA cuts

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/07/congress-moves-to-reject-bulk-of-white-houses-proposed-nasa-cuts/
187•DocFeind•9h ago•120 comments

Designing for the Eye: Optical corrections in architecture and typography

https://www.nubero.ch/blog/015/
179•ArmageddonIt•18h ago•25 comments

Plasma Bigscreen rises from the dead with a better UI

https://www.neowin.net/news/kdes-android-tv-alternative-plasma-bigscreen-rises-from-the-dead-with-a-better-ui/
167•bundie•19h ago•61 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: Reviving a 20 year old OS X App

https://andrewshaw.nl/blog/reviving-genius
57•shawa_a_a•4d ago

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treetalker•2d ago
It's Genius.app, an old flashcard app for Macs.

Author discusses/compares Duolingo and Anki. Anki is disapproved for lack of precise right/wrong feedback.

Repository of updated code: https://github.com/shawa/genius

adastra22•6h ago
I think OP is confused about how Anki works. It can totally be used the same as this tool if you just hit '1' for things you got wrong and '3' for things you got right. '2' and '4' are more power user levels of control.
johnisgood•8h ago
Speaking of old OS X apps, I liked iWeb a lot when I was a kid. I must have been around 12 when I was messing around with it.
Angostura•4h ago
It was a really nifty visual website builder. I was sad when it went. Fantastic in the days when ISPs threw in a bit of webspace for customers to play with
johnisgood•7m ago
Yeah, remember "Macromedia Dreamweaver" (specifically Macromedia Dreamweaver 4[1])? I remember having tried that as a kid. It did not work out for me well, but iWeb was perfect to me.

[1] Macromedia Dreamweaver 4 is the fourth major version of Dreamweaver that was released by Macromedia on November 27, 2000.

busymom0•7h ago
I understand the whole retro look of the website but it's very unreadable with the white text on bright stars background. Fortunately reader mode on Safari helped me read it.

On a similar note, a few months ago, I took over a 14 year old Objective-C iPhone app called Painteresque and brought it back to life. Discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43222099

If OP is interested, maybe I can help with the Sandbox issues or having it published on the Mac App Store?

RandallBrown•6h ago
I was very confused by your comment because for me the background is clouds with black text.

Turns out it changes based on light/dark mode.

shawa_a_a•4h ago
It’s not the most accessible colour scheme - I’ll have a look and tweak it so dark mode is more readable.

I’d definitely be really grateful for help with that! I’m not planning to publish to the Mac App Store, but it would be great to have the build step a bit more compliant with current practises.

aaronbrethorst•7h ago
- and + denote instance and class methods respectively, not public and private.

Source: my first released Mac OS X app came out in 2003. https://github.com/aaronbrethorst/irooster

therein•4h ago
Yeah, and that's even more confusing than using it for public/private. It just shouldn't have been a thing. I think I stopped trying to seriously gain experience with Objective-C after noticing that.

I was even kinda okay with the [callee verbingTheSubject withFooValueBeing 7 andBarValueSetTo "good argument"] but that was just too much.

matsemann•7h ago
It's a bit sad it just won't run without modifications. I'm sure I could run a random exe from then in Windows?
tonyarkles•7h ago
Yeah, that’s the downside to swapping architectures. x86 goes to great pains to be backward-compatible at the instruction level, and then MS puts a lot of effort into keeping Windows backwards compatible.

A couple years back on Windows 10 I successfully installed and used a PCB layout tool from 1998. I was shocked at how smooth it went. I think it needed to run as administrator but otherwise zero issues.

pjmlp•5h ago
Windows NT has run on multiple architectures since day one with x86/PowerPC/Alpha/MIPS flavours, however x86/AMD64 has won over them.

Trying to add ARM desktop to the mix hasn't indeed been easy, because of backwards compatibility efforts, most folks don't care about Windows ARM laptops.

Pocket PC/Windows CE also had ARM/MIPS variants.

jeroenhd•4h ago
From what I can tell, it may have taken MS a while, but it seems like on the Windows side of things, amd64 emulation seems to work pretty flawlessly. There are still issues (i.e. Qualcomm's drivers not being as good as Nvidia's/Intel's/AMD's) but at least on the Windows side of the equation everything seems to work now.

Because MS doesn't require special emulation hardware like Rosetta2 does, I expect amd64 emulation on Windows to last a lot longer than it will on macOS, too.

pjmlp•4h ago
> ...but at least on the Windows side of the equation everything seems to work now.

Depends on how much you care about Khronos APIs for example.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/announcing-the-opencl...

No other updates since 2020.

com2kid•6h ago
My son is playing Reader Rabbit from 2001 on my Windows 10 laptop.

I had to clock "enable 640x480" compatibility mode and I need to directly run the EXE (the wrapper launcher doesn't work) but otherwise it works fine.

pjmlp•5h ago
Not really, depends from what era as well, even though Windows is more backwards compatible.

Win16 is only supported up to Windows 10.

Win32 did not run in special variations of Windows 8, like Windows RT tablets, where only UWP was supported (guess why they didn't took off).

All Windows versions that descend from Windows NT, also support many architectures, only a few had x86 emulators.

The latest attempt to push Windows on ARM, only started taking off with Arm64EC binaries, which are the Windows version of fat binaries, and the emulator isn't as good as Rosetta.

Finally even Microsoft does indeed drop functions every now and then, even if that is a seldom event.

Then the random exe might appear run, but crash into issues like modern HDPi, new security model,...

kreelman•6h ago
I love the early web feel of the site. The points around DuoLingo not working are informative. This could be turned into a PWA so it can run anywhere?
asterios33•6h ago
Why ? Why flattening the icons and make everything grayish ?
vintagedave•2h ago
Flat is just modern macOS, but I agree. I miss colour.
Cockbrand•6h ago
The author's discussion of Duolingo makes the app seem outright dangerous for naïve users. It's well known that it's a criminal offence in Germany to not talk to the apple on Tuesdays.
TMWNN•5h ago
I have one c. 2010 Intel app that I am absolutely dependent on. Commercial, so no chance of recompiling the source code.

I am not looking forward to Rosetta going away.

robin_reala•3h ago
Worst case, I guess you could set up an emulated VM running an Intel variant of macOS?
WeirderScience•5h ago
Their sketchy ad/malware era aside, I do appreciate sourceforge keeping all the old OSS websites and repos alive.
shawa_a_a•4h ago
Since going down this rabbit hole, I gave Anki another fair shot and actually RTFM :) the blog post warrants an update

https://docs.ankiweb.net/deck-options.html#learning-steps Details what _actually happens_ when you pick again/hard/good etc. I much prefer understanding this to the vibes-based approach of “did you pause before answering”.

Secondly turns out you can indeed very easily set up type-to-answer in a deck by editing the front template and adding

{type:Field}

where field is the answer part of the card’s data.

So… I’m actually using Anki again. I’m still very happy I did this, it was a fun little journey!

brnt•3h ago
There's actually an excellent Dutch piece of software for this (Windows only though, but works fine in Wine on other platforms): Overhoor [1].

I used it under Windows 3.11 as a child, and kept using it for French and German into my late teens and Windows ME. It is simple, just as this tool. To this day, it's a piece of freeware that gives me good memories of a forgotten era.

Since the author describes learning Dutch, I though I might mention its existence.

[1] https://www.efkasoft.nl/overhoor-download/

micheljansen•3h ago
I came here to say the same thing! I used an ancient (DOS) version of it to get me through high school French, German, Latin and so on. Fond memories.