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Claude for Small Business

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-for-small-business
233•neilfrndes•5h ago•168 comments

Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7

https://classic7.lol/
34•jandeboevrie•2h ago•20 comments

Scorched Earth 2000 – Web

http://www.scorch2000.com/web/
245•meshko•8h ago•96 comments

Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features

https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-gaming-is-getting-faster-because-windows-apis-are-becoming-l...
715•haunter•3d ago•464 comments

What the Hell Was Going on with Cigarette Ads in the 70s?

https://tohippo.com/what-the-hell-was-going-on-with-cigarette-ads-in-the-70s/
21•Vasbarlog•1h ago•31 comments

Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)

https://fredchan.org/blog/locality-domains-guide/
558•speckx•18h ago•173 comments

MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble

https://www.jdhodges.com/blog/macbook-neo-benchmarks-analysis/
213•tosh•14h ago•228 comments

A History of IDEs at Google

https://laurent.le-brun.eu/blog/a-history-of-ides-at-google
368•laurentlb•4d ago•241 comments

The Emacsification of Software

https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/05/12/emacsification/
298•rdslw•1d ago•196 comments

Technical Dimensions of Live Feedback in Programming Systems

https://joshuahhh.com/dims-of-feedback/
4•tobr•3d ago•1 comments

Extraordinary Ordinals

https://text.marvinborner.de/2026-04-09-17.html
21•marvinborner•2d ago•11 comments

Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/drop-database-what-not-to-do-after-losing-an-it-job/
424•jnord•1d ago•325 comments

Show HN: Nibble

https://github.com/glouw/nibble
53•glouwbug•7h ago•6 comments

Avoiding and reducing microplastic false positives from dry glove contact

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2026/ay/d5ay01801c
44•efavdb•8h ago•3 comments

Chess puzzle I found in my dad's old book

https://ardoedo.it/kempelen/
155•Eswo•2d ago•41 comments

Cisco workforce reductions

https://blogs.cisco.com/news/our-path-forward
196•ahmedomran8•7h ago•188 comments

delta time

https://www.deltatime.life/
50•mxfh•8h ago•28 comments

Arena AI Model ELO History

https://mayerwin.github.io/AI-Arena-History/
59•mayerwin•6h ago•42 comments

The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization

https://avkcode.github.io/blog/us-winning-ai-race.html
198•akrylov•19h ago•542 comments

Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model

https://github.com/cactus-compute/needle
674•HenryNdubuaku•1d ago•188 comments

Xs of Y – roguelike that names itself every run. Written in 4kLoC

https://github.com/nooga/xsofy
185•andsoitis•4d ago•76 comments

Microsoft BitLocker – YellowKey zero-day exploit

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/microsoft-bitlocker-protected-drives-ca...
153•cookiengineer•6h ago•84 comments

Heritability of human life span is ~50% when heritability is redefined

https://dynomight.net/lifespan/
100•surprisetalk•1d ago•55 comments

Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent

https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2026/05/princeton-news-adpol-proctoring-in-person-exami...
326•bookofjoe•13h ago•479 comments

Notes from Optimizing CPU-Bound Go Hot Paths

https://blog.andr2i.com/posts/2026-05-03-notes-from-optimizing-cpu-bound-go-hot-paths
12•nnx•2d ago•2 comments

Launch HN: Ardent (YC P26) – Postgres sandboxes in seconds with zero migration

https://www.tryardent.com/
85•vc289•16h ago•34 comments

How can Apple deal with the memory shortage?

https://asymco.com/2026/05/11/the-great-memory-panic-of-2026/
96•tambourine_man•2d ago•95 comments

A Claude Code and Codex Skill for Deliberate Skill Development

https://github.com/DrCatHicks/learning-opportunities
39•cdrnsf•6h ago•12 comments

Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15

https://discuss.python.org/t/reverting-the-incremental-gc-in-python-3-14-and-3-15/107014
231•curiousgal•4d ago•95 comments

The Deathbed Notes of Henry James (1968)

https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/flashbks/james/jnote.htm
4•Hooke•1d ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7

https://classic7.lol/
32•jandeboevrie•2h ago

Comments

vintagedave•1h ago
I love this kind of thing but feel really worried when I can't see source.
tomaytotomato•1h ago
Looks like the repo is here - https://github.com/Classic7-Mod/WindowsOOBERecreation

The repo is only 8 months old, which could be seen as good or bad.

datfrojo•57m ago
That is only the out of box experience but the whole thing
izacus•3m ago
I think you'll need to slowly make peace with the fact that people don't want their work stolen by AIs.
anthk•58m ago
This can create both incompatibilities and use more resources than Windows 7 itself.
KeplerBoy•52m ago
It's just a skin. Of course it uses more resources than windows 7.
theletterf•58m ago
Can we have something similar for macOS (to turn the UI to Mac OS 9)?
pointlessone•42m ago
I would even take any Leopard/Lion.
bambax•54m ago
At work I am made to use Windows 11 and I hate it immensely. Everything's so slow. Nothing operates properly. In addition to forced reboots which are annoying as hell, it also reboots after some time on sleep, for no reason whatsoever. Copilot is everywhere and cannot be truly disabled without admin rights. While not strictly a Windows issue, Outlook is an incredible piece of garbage. It doesn't know if it's running and so can be launched more than once; the icon for new messages doesn't show when it should; search is still as broken as ever; the ribbon, which makes little sense in other Office apps, is absurd in Outlook; folders are useless and confusing; etc.

At home, while I have a Mac Mini 4, a MacBook Air, and several Linux boxes, I still use an old PC on Win7 as my primary machine. Is it insecure? Probably. But today "insecure" feels more like a feature than a limitation. No forced updates of anything => everything that works, keeps working indefinitely.

edg5000•32m ago
How large is the company you work at? I'm guessing large. What is the general sentiment across layers in the company? My guess is everybody hates it (all layers)?
bambax•20m ago
It's a client of mine; the IT department is extremely small (fewer than 5) but the company has maybe 500 employees total? Since I work there, I've not heard anyone complain specifically about their computer or the Windows version. Most people don't care / don't know better, they just use what they're given.
ieee2•24m ago
I work with Windows 11 and don't see any major issue whatsoever. But note that 16GB RAM is "just" enough to run it smoothly. 32GB is better for serious (e.g development) work. I have run it even on Intel 4200U/4200M CPUs fine (CPU is from year 2014). I agree that new Outlook is buggy and not fully functional - that's why I still use old native MS Outlook.
arethuza•20m ago
My main issue with Windows 11 (and where I use it I do see quite a lot of issues) is that apparently it won't run on my personal PC at home - and no way am I going to buy a new PC just to run Windows 11. So installed Linux Mint and I'm perfectly happy!
bambax•5m ago
It's possible half of my problems are because I don't have admin rights, and the other half is because the machine is too weak.

Why do modern OSes need so much power and RAM anyway? I used to produce documents on an Amstrad PPC640. 640 stood for 640k of RAM (no hard disk). It was fine.

I understand the above makes me sound like an old fart (or fool), and we have moved on from DOS. But what does Windows 11 do that Windows 7 couldn't?

KronisLV•2m ago
I daily drive Windows 11 (with WSL) and with some tweaks it feels okay: the O&O ShutUp10++ utility (or any number of similar ones, as long as you trust them), some group policy, maybe Everything if you want fast search, LibreOffice instead of MS office and just some Settings changes. It sucks if you don't have the permissions to change that stuff and are stuck with the bad defaults.

In some ways it's a bit like having to customize a Mac to feel comfy (AutoRaise, Rectangle, DiscreteScroll, ...), except in Apple's case it's because they believe that they know better what my computing experience should be like, and in Microsoft's, it's some enshittification and pushing me towards features that I don't really want or need.

At the same time, games work (even the shitty rootkit anti-cheat), lovely software is all there like Notepad++, MobaXTerm, SourceTree (though GitKraken is really good if you want to pay for it), SteelSeries Sonar (the only experience of managing audio devices that wasn't unnecessarily messy or complex, tbh even VoiceMeeter has weird UI/UX), oh and FreeFileSync and ofc all of my dev tools and other software. It's just passable in most categories.

I still believe that something like Linux Mint would give me the best desktop computing experience, cause it almost never is actively hostile to me as a user - all of the instances of it sucking and being broken are either growing pains, ecosystem fragmentation, insufficient development effort (given that there isn't a multi-billion dollar org behind it, or at least not really the DEs or most userland software, or that the drivers don't always get as much love from vendors), or circumstances outside of their control (e.g. the anti-cheat situation with games), rather than a conscious choice on the part of the developers.

Imustaskforhelp•36m ago
can something like this happen for linux, I would love to see a linux desktop environment like windows 7

for windows 8 on linux, there's this: https://github.com/er-bharat/Win8DE

xhevahir•16m ago
There's a lot of them. Just search for Frutiger Aero on GitHub.
unleaded•1m ago
https://gitgud.io/aeroshell/atp/aerothemeplasma
rie_t•16m ago
I really do miss the design of Windows 7 and the apps of that era (think Office 2007 style)

I hope it comes back

insumanth•15m ago
I have used windows 7 since it launched and moved to 10 & 11. I like some design elements of windows 7, but I would absolutely not use it today.

If you think, "I should try this", Any reason why? I'm really curious to know