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Legacy Update for Windows 8.1 for x64-based Systems

https://legacyupdate.net/download-center/download/51025/update-for-windows-8.1-x64-kb3132080
12•kristianp•1d ago

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tuwtuwtuwtuw•1h ago
Friends don't let friends use sites like this.
riddlemethat•58m ago
Or Windows 8.x in general
lousken•56m ago
It was the snappiest windows ever though
wao0uuno•1m ago
I loved windows 8.1. It was fast, lightweight, looked clean and modern. That weird start menu wasn't really a problem for me. Too bad it got dropped by hardware manufacturers like a hot potato as soon as the objectively inferior Windows 10 came out. But maybe that's good because it made me switch to Linux full time and I couldn't be happier with it.
joshuaissac•49m ago
> Friends don't let friends use sites like this.

Why not? The download link on the site points to to Microsoft's official website.

everfree•49m ago
What am I looking at? It's a link to a Windows update from 2016?
PenguinRevolver•5m ago
Beats me: https://support.microsoft.com/en/kb/3132080

Americans Are Smashing Flock Cameras

https://stateofsurveillance.org/news/flock-cameras-destroyed-nationwide-ice-backlash-2026/
128•rolph•42m ago•85 comments

I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation

https://github.com/tech4bot/rk3562deb
115•tech4bot•4h ago•64 comments

I don't think AI will make your processes go faster

https://frederickvanbrabant.com/blog/2026-05-15-i-dont-think-ai-will-make-your-processes-go-faster/
330•TheEdonian•5h ago•258 comments

Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit

https://www.techspot.com/news/112410-security-researcher-microsoft-secretly-built-backdoor-bitloc...
367•nolok•4h ago•156 comments

The occasional ECONNRESET

https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-05-05/1/POSTING-en.html
9•zdw•42m ago•1 comments

Native all the way, until you need text

https://justsitandgrin.im/posts/native-all-the-way-until-you-need-text/
279•dive•6h ago•193 comments

Hindenburg's Smoking Room

https://www.airships.net/hindenburg-smoking-room/
60•crescit_eundo•2d ago•25 comments

Every AI Subscription Is a Ticking Time Bomb for Enterprise

https://www.thestateofbrand.com/news/ai-subscription-time-bomb
277•mooreds•6h ago•250 comments

Prolog Basics Explained with Pokémon

https://unplannedobsolescence.com/blog/prolog-basics-pokemon/
144•birdculture•2d ago•23 comments

Mistral's CEO: Europe has 2 years to stop becoming America's AI 'vassal state'

https://www.businessinsider.com/mistral-ceo-warns-europe-2-years-avoid-us-ai-dependence-2026-5
35•LelouBil•1h ago•23 comments

Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter

https://www.williamangel.net/blog/2026/05/17/offline-llm-energy-use.html
212•datadrivenangel•5h ago•178 comments

High-Entropy Alloy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-entropy_alloy
50•leonidasrup•3d ago•6 comments

AI is a technology not a product

https://daringfireball.net/2026/05/ai_is_technology_not_a_product
165•ch_sm•4h ago•54 comments

Agentic Trading with Safe Guardrails

https://github.com/ShurikenTrade/shuriken-skills
32•jgan0978•5h ago•15 comments

Meta deletes popular 1M follower account after Kuwaiti request

https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/2055992439031185782
17•bhouston•40m ago•3 comments

CUDA Books

https://github.com/alternbits/awesome-cuda-books
48•dariubs•4h ago•5 comments

Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust

https://crates.io/crates/zerostack/1.0.0
499•gidellav•19h ago•274 comments

WHO Declares Ebola Outbreak a Global Health Emergency

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/world/africa/ebola-congo-uganda-who-public-health-emergency.html
189•zzzeek•4h ago•106 comments

XS: A programming language. Anywhere, anytime, by anyone

https://xslang.org
16•yacin•3h ago•8 comments

Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools

https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2026/05/15/mozilla-to-uk-regulators-vpns-are-essential-privacy...
508•WithinReason•11h ago•228 comments

Mercurial, 20 years and counting: how are we still alive and kicking? [video]

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/AGWUVH-mercurial-aint-you-dead-yet/
4•ibobev•2d ago•0 comments

EU weighs restricting use of US cloud platforms to process sensitive gov data

https://www.osnews.com/story/144943/eu-weighs-restricting-use-of-us-cloud-platforms-to-process-se...
7•abdelhousni•22m ago•0 comments

Colossus: The Forbin Project

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project
182•doener•2d ago•60 comments

A nicer voltmeter clock

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/a-nicer-voltmeter-clock
273•surprisetalk•19h ago•34 comments

Scientists believe ibogaine can help veterans overcome PTSD

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260514-how-hallucinogenic-ibogaine-helps-veterans-overcome-ptsd
47•bushwart•5h ago•41 comments

Hosting a website on an 8-bit microcontroller

https://maurycyz.com/projects/mcusite/
199•zdw•16h ago•17 comments

Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS

https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/05/15/moving-away-from-tailwind--and-learning-to-structure-my-css-/
625•mpweiher•1d ago•351 comments

OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens

https://openai.com/index/malta-chatgpt-plus-partnership/
281•bookofjoe•21h ago•304 comments

Mado: Fast Markdown linter written in Rust

https://github.com/akiomik/mado
36•nateb2022•2d ago•2 comments

SANA-WM, a 2.6B open-source world model for 1-minute 720p video

https://nvlabs.github.io/Sana/WM/
384•mjgil•1d ago•145 comments