Our Commitment to Windows Quality

39 hadrien01 2026-03-20 19:18:40 UTC blogs.windows.com Llama Share 31

Microsoft is making changes to Windows 11 to improve performance, reliability, and user experience, including taskbar customization, AI integration, and reduced Windows Update disruption. The company is focusing on making Windows 11 more responsive, consistent, and secure, with a goal of delivering better experiences with greater confidence, month after month.

France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app

312 MrDresden 2026-03-20 13:07:40 UTC lemonde.fr Llama Share 281

Contactez licensing[@]groupelemonde.fr pour obtenir une autorisation d'accès. Incluez une copie de la page d'erreur avec votre adresse IP et votre identifiant de requête (RID).

ArXiv declares independence from Cornell

667 bookstore-romeo 2026-03-20 05:07:40 UTC science.org Llama Share 224

ArXiv, a preprint server, will become an independent nonprofit corporation on July 1 after over 2 decades of being hosted by Cornell University. This move aims to raise more money from a broader range of donors to fund staffing and technology for the site's growing number of preprints.

VisiCalc Reconstructed

120 ingve 2026-03-20 15:07:40 UTC zserge.com Llama Share 48

The user discusses rebuilding a minimal VisiCalc clone from scratch, focusing on a data model, formula evaluator, and simple UI to display cells, and implements a recursive descent parser to calculate formulas on the fly. The user also implements a basic UI using the ncurses library, allowing users to navigate through cells, edit them, and display their values, with features like ...

The Los Angeles Aqueduct Is Wild

216 michaefe 2026-03-20 13:07:40 UTC practical.engineering Llama Share 114

The Los Angeles Aqueduct is a 300-mile gravity-fed system that brings water from the Eastern Sierra to LA, but its construction and operation have been marked by controversy and environmental impact. The aqueduct's design and expansion have had significant effects on the Owens Valley and surrounding ecosystems, highlighting the need for careful consideration of costs beyond the balance sheet.

Attention Residuals

25 GaggiX 2026-03-20 19:07:40 UTC github.com/moonshotai Llama Share 5

Attention Residuals (AttnRes) is a drop-in replacement for standard residual connections in Transformers that enables selective aggregation of earlier representations via learned attention. It consistently outperforms the baseline across all compute budgets and mitigates PreNorm dilution.

Parallel Perl – autoparallelizing interpreter with JIT

63 bmn__ 2026-03-20 16:07:40 UTC perl.petamem.com Llama Share 25

The user discusses issues with CPAN and PBP, and their decision to use STM32F103 instead of ATmega328 for faster performance. They also mention their use of CAN protocol, Perl, and Rust for various projects and tasks.

Launch HN: Sitefire (YC W26) – Automating actions to improve AI visibility

22 vincko 2026-03-20 17:07:40 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 20

Vincent and Jochen from sitefire developed a platform to improve brand visibility in AI search by analyzing and optimizing content for AI search engines. Their platform generates synthetic prompts, analyzes AI search results, and creates optimized content to increase AI bot requests and human referrals to clients' pages.

Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service

317 freddykruger 2026-03-20 16:07:40 UTC deepdelver.substack.com Llama Share 106

Delve, a compliance company, uses fake evidence and fabricated audit reports to make companies appear compliant with frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and GDPR. Delve's platform relies on pre-populated templates, manual forms, and dodgy auditors to produce reports that falsely claim independent verification, putting clients at risk of criminal liability and hefty fines.

Entso-E final report on Iberian 2025 blackout

151 Rygian 2026-03-20 11:07:40 UTC entsoe.eu Llama Share 54

On 28 April 2025, a total blackout occurred in continental Spain and Portugal, with disruptions in a small area of Southwest France. An Expert Panel investigated the incident and released a final report on 20 March 2026 with recommendations to prevent similar events.

The Social Smolnet

80 aebtebeten 2026-03-20 13:07:40 UTC ploum.net Llama Share 11

User implemented social features in Offpunk after realizing blogs and email already formed a decentralized social network. Offpunk allows users to share and reply to online content with simple email commands.

Video Encoding and Decoding with Vulkan Compute Shaders in FFmpeg

125 y1n0 2026-03-20 11:07:40 UTC khronos.org Llama Share 47

FFmpeg uses Vulkan Compute to accelerate encoding and decoding of professional-grade video on consumer GPUs, unlocking GPU compute parallelism at scale without specialized hardware. This approach complements Vulkan Video's fixed-function codec support, extending acceleration to formats and workflows it doesn't cover, making it an ideal starting point for making compute-based codec ...

Super Micro Shares Plunge 25% After Co-Founder Charged in $2.5B Smuggling Plot

238 pera 2026-03-20 15:07:40 UTC forbes.com Full Share 107

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Flash-KMeans: Fast and Memory-Efficient Exact K-Means

147 matt_d 2026-03-20 09:07:40 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 12

Researchers improved k-means algorithm for online use by addressing GPU bottlenecks through flash-kmeans, a new implementation. It achieves up to 17.9x speedup over best baselines and outperforms industry-standard libraries.

90% of crypto's Illinois primary spending failed to achieve its objective

98 speckx 2026-03-20 17:07:40 UTC mollywhite.net Llama Share 66

Cryptocurrency super PACs spent $14.2 million in Illinois primaries, mostly on losing candidates. Their few wins were in races with likely outcomes, using only a small fraction of their total funds.

Regex Blaster

110 mdp 2026-03-20 12:07:40 UTC mdp.github.io Full Share 46

Write regex patterns to destroy falling strings. 👾 Orange = enemies (destroy them). 🛡 Green = friendlies (don't hit them!).

Java is fast, code might not be

143 siegers 2026-03-20 14:07:40 UTC jvogel.me Llama Share 134

A Java app was optimized by fixing common performance anti-patterns, resulting in 5x throughput, 87% less heap, and 79% fewer GC pauses. The fixes included using StringBuilder, avoiding redundant work, and pre-validating user input to prevent expensive operations.

Randomization in Controlled Experiments

15 pykq 2026-03-20 17:07:40 UTC queue.acm.org Llama Share 1

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Show HN: An open-source safety net for home hemodialysis

11 qweliantanner 2026-03-20 18:07:40 UTC safehemo.com Llama Share 5

Safehemo is a pre-alpha demonstration for home dialysis, connecting patients, clinics, and communities in a secure ecosystem. It provides real-time monitoring and alerts for critical events, but is not a medical device and should not be used in emergencies.

HP trialed mandatory 15-minute support call wait times (2025)

270 felineflock 2026-03-20 14:07:40 UTC arstechnica.com Llama Share 177

HP implemented 15-minute wait times for some international callers to encourage digital self-solve options. The company has since lifted the mandatory wait times, prioritizing timely access to live phone support.

Just Put It on a Map

111 surprisetalk 2026-03-20 10:07:40 UTC progressandpoverty.substack.com Llama Share 56

The Center for Land Economics has developed tools like CivicMapper and PutItOnAmap to analyze land values and provide insights into urban development, with features such as 3D visualization, data cleaning, and time adjustment for mass appraisal workflows. These tools aim to help assessors, urban planners, and policymakers make informed decisions about land use and development, and are ...

Too Much Color

87 maguay 2026-03-20 08:07:40 UTC keithcirkel.co.uk Llama Share 49

The author of csskit developed a minifier test suite and discovered that precise enough is almost never more than 3 decimal places for colours like oklch and oklab, and even less for lab and lch. The author found that 3dp is enough for most colour operations, with 1dp sufficient for lab/lch and 0dp for sRGB, and that this rule holds uniformly across different colour spaces and operations.

FSF statement on copyright infringement lawsuit Bartz v. Anthropic

211 m463 2026-03-20 05:07:40 UTC fsf.org Llama Share 104

The FSF received a notice about a settlement in the Bartz v. Anthropic lawsuit over copyright infringement of works used to train LLMs. The FSF urges Anthropic to provide LLMs to users in freedom, including complete training inputs and source code.

Chuck Norris has died

604 mp3il 2026-03-20 15:07:40 UTC variety.com Llama Share 355

Chuck Norris, an 86-year-old martial arts champion and actor, has died. He was a devoted husband, father, and grandfather, and inspired millions with his work, discipline, and kindness.

MacBook M5 Pro and Qwen3.5 = Local AI Security System

123 aegis_camera 2026-03-20 17:07:40 UTC sharpai.org Llama Share 117

Qwen3.5-9B scores 93.8% on home security tasks, within 4% of GPT-5.4. It runs locally on a MacBook Pro M5 with zero API costs and complete data privacy.

The Soul of a Pedicab Driver

117 haritha-j 2026-03-20 10:07:40 UTC sheldonbrown.com Llama Share 32

The author, a pedicab chauffeur in Oslo, initially found the job both lucrative and personally rewarding but later experienced stress and frustration due to difficult passengers.

Full Disclosure: A Third (and Fourth) Azure Sign-In Log Bypass Found

277 nyxgeek 2026-03-20 02:07:40 UTC trustedsec.com Llama Share 84

Nyxgeek discovered four Azure Entra ID sign-in log bypasses in the last three years, including GraphNinja, GraphGhost, GraphGoblin, and a fourth bypass involving a long user-agent string. These bypasses allowed attackers to validate passwords without generating log entries, and Microsoft fixed them in record time, but initially downplayed the severity of the issues.

Drugwars for the TI-82/83/83 Calculators (2011)

254 robotnikman 2026-03-20 01:07:40 UTC gist.github.com Embed Share 72

Drawvg Filter for FFmpeg

160 nolta 2026-03-20 07:07:40 UTC ayosec.github.io Llama Share 26

drawvg is a FFmpeg filter that renders vector graphics on top of video frames using the Cairo library and VGS scripting language. It can be used to create custom transitions, animations, and effects by executing scripts that describe 2D graphics.

Exploring 8 Shaft Weaving

28 surprisetalk 2026-03-20 13:07:40 UTC slab.org Llama Share 2

The author visited the Wearable Senses lab in Eindhoven and explored hacking the TC/2 loom, then acquired an 8-shaft table loom for the Alpaca project. They learned to set up the loom and create a striped warp, then experimented with different threading patterns and weaves.