Our commitment to Windows quality

87 hadrien01 2026-03-20 20:09:58 UTC blogs.windows.com Llama Share 107

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

367 MrDresden 2026-03-20 13:09:58 UTC lemonde.fr Llama Share 324

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).

Attention Residuals

52 GaggiX 2026-03-20 19:09:58 UTC github.com/moonshotai Llama Share 8

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.

VisiCalc Reconstructed

135 ingve 2026-03-20 15:09:58 UTC zserge.com Llama Share 56

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

237 michaefe 2026-03-20 13:09:58 UTC practical.engineering Llama Share 128

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.

Parallel Perl – autoparallelizing interpreter with JIT

78 bmn__ 2026-03-20 16:09:58 UTC perl.petamem.com Llama Share 31

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.

NumKong: 2'000 Mixed Precision Kernels for All

4 ashvardanian 2026-03-20 20:09:58 UTC ashvardanian.com Prefix Share 0

These are a few lines of celebratory “proud-dad” rumblings and highlights from my largest open-source release to date. I’m killing my SimSIMD project and re-launching under a new name — NumKong — StringZilla’s big brother. Over 2'000 SIMD kernels for mixed precision numerics, spread across 200'000 lines of code & docstrings, in 7 languages. One of the largest collections online — ...

Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service

384 freddykruger 2026-03-20 16:09:58 UTC deepdelver.substack.com Llama Share 132

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

159 Rygian 2026-03-20 11:09:58 UTC entsoe.eu Llama Share 60

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.

Show HN: I made an email app inspired by Arc browser

6 johndamaia 2026-03-20 20:09:58 UTC demo.define.app Full Share 2

define brings email, chat, meetings, docs, and video together—so teams decide faster, switch less, and stay in flow.

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

25 vincko 2026-03-20 17:09:58 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.

The Social Smolnet

89 aebtebeten 2026-03-20 13:09:58 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.

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

262 pera 2026-03-20 15:09:58 UTC forbes.com Full Share 120

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Video Encoding and Decoding with Vulkan Compute Shaders in FFmpeg

134 y1n0 2026-03-20 11:09:58 UTC khronos.org Llama Share 48

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 ...

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

151 matt_d 2026-03-20 09:09:58 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.

The bespoke software revolution? I'm not buying it

15 FireBy2024 2026-03-20 20:26:58 UTC world.hey.com Llama Share 2

People are excited about bespoke software, but most users don't want to build custom tools, they want solutions to their problems. AI will be used for various tasks, but building custom systems will remain the domain of experts and enthusiasts.

Just Put It on a Map

120 surprisetalk 2026-03-20 10:09:58 UTC progressandpoverty.substack.com Llama Share 61

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 ...

Regex Blaster

120 mdp 2026-03-20 12:09:58 UTC mdp.github.io Full Share 48

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

Java is fast, code might not be

157 siegers 2026-03-20 14:09:58 UTC jvogel.me Llama Share 163

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.

ArXiv declares independence from Cornell

683 bookstore-romeo 2026-03-20 05:09:58 UTC science.org Llama Share 234

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.

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

285 felineflock 2026-03-20 14:09:58 UTC arstechnica.com Llama Share 183

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.

Too Much Color

90 maguay 2026-03-20 08:09:58 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.

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

112 speckx 2026-03-20 17:09:58 UTC mollywhite.net Llama Share 78

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.

FSF statement on copyright infringement lawsuit Bartz v. Anthropic

225 m463 2026-03-20 05:09:58 UTC fsf.org Llama Share 109

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.

Show HN: Sonar – A tiny CLI to see and kill whatever's running on localhost

110 raskrebs 2026-03-20 10:09:58 UTC github.com/raskrebs Llama Share 60

sonar is a tool that shows listening ports on localhost with Docker details and clickable URLs. It allows killing processes, tailing logs, and more by port number with various filtering and sorting options.

The worst volume control UI in the world

24 andsoitis 2026-03-20 18:09:58 UTC uxdesign.cc Llama Share 14

Developers and designers on Reddit created a thread to come up with the worst volume control interface ideas for fun. The exercise helps strengthen creative muscles and think outside the box.

I'm OK being left behind, thanks

727 coinfused 2026-03-20 14:09:58 UTC shkspr.mobi Llama Share 609

The author is skeptical of early adoption of new technologies like cryptocurrencies and AI tools, preferring to wait until they are more stable and useful. They argue that being first is not as important as being effective and that most people will be able to catch up at their own pace.

The Soul of a Pedicab Driver

124 haritha-j 2026-03-20 10:09:58 UTC sheldonbrown.com Llama Share 35

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.

Randomization in Controlled Experiments

16 pykq 2026-03-20 17:09:58 UTC queue.acm.org Llama Share 2

Cloudflare Ray ID和触发阻止的行为详细信息。

Chuck Norris has died

649 mp3il 2026-03-20 15:09:58 UTC variety.com Llama Share 382

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.