Hacker News with Generative AI: Windows

PowerToys Command Palette Utility (microsoft.com)
PowerToys Command Palette allows you to easily access all of your most frequently used commands, apps, and development tools - all from a single solution that is fast, customizable to your unique preferences, and extensible to include your favorite apps.

Productivity Tools, Windows, Software, Customization

6 points by sangeeth96 1 day ago | 4 comments

Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account (theverge.com)
Microsoft is no longer playing around when it comes to requiring every Windows 11 device be set up with an internet-connected account.

Windows, Operating Systems, Microsoft, Security, Privacy

194 points by nickthegreek 4 days ago | 198 comments

Windows Roadmap (microsoft.com)

Windows, Operating Systems, Microsoft, Software, Roadmap

4 points by ingve 5 days ago | 1 comments

Mozilla warns Windows users of critical Firefox sandbox escape flaw (bleepingcomputer.com)
Mozilla has released Firefox 136.0.4 to patch a critical security vulnerability that can let attackers escape the web browser's sandbox on Windows systems.

Security, Firefox, Windows, Software, Vulnerability

6 points by akyuu 5 days ago | 2 comments

Full History of Windows Longhorn [Microsoft Employee Insider] (youtube.com)

Windows, Operating Systems, History, Microsoft

18 points by written-beyond 6 days ago | 0 comments

Building Node.js on Windows with Clang-cl (joyeecheung.github.io)
Recently Node.js started to support building with clang-cl on Windows.

Node.js, Windows, C++, Compilers

7 points by mpweiher 8 days ago | 2 comments

ReactOS 0.4.15 (reactos.org)
We are pleased to announce the release of ReactOS 0.4.15! This release offers Plug and Play fixes, audio fixes, memory management fixes, registry healing, improvements to accessories and system tools including Notepad, Paint, RAPPS, the Input Method Editor, and shell improvements.

New Releases, Operating Systems, Software, Windows

16 points by keyle 11 days ago | 4 comments

ReactOS 0.4.15 Released (reactos.org)
We are pleased to announce the release of ReactOS 0.4.15! This release offers Plug and Play fixes, audio fixes, memory management fixes, registry healing, improvements to accessories and system tools including Notepad, Paint, RAPPS, the Input Method Editor, and shell improvements.

New Releases, Operating Systems, Windows

21 points by Acrobatic_Road 11 days ago | 4 comments

Google is bringing every Android game to Windows in big gaming update (arstechnica.com)
Google is bringing every Android game to Windows in big gaming update

Gaming, Android, Windows, Google

22 points by namanyayg 12 days ago | 4 comments

How to Infect Your PC in Three Easy Steps (krebsonsecurity.com)
A clever malware deployment scheme first spotted in targeted attacks last year has now gone mainstream. In this scam, dubbed “ClickFix,” the visitor to a hacked or malicious website is asked to distinguish themselves from bots by pressing a combination of keyboard keys that causes Microsoft Windows to download password-stealing malware.

Cybersecurity, Malware, Security, Windows

54 points by LinuxBender 15 days ago | 21 comments

wimlib the open source Windows Imaging (WIM) library (wimlib.net)
wimlib is an open source, cross-platform library for creating, extracting, and modifying Windows Imaging (WIM) archives.

Open Source, Windows, Software Libraries, Imaging

6 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 17 days ago | 0 comments

WinRing0: Why Windows is flagging your monitoring and fan control apps as threat (theverge.com)
On Tuesday morning, some PC gamers woke up to discover their computers were seemingly under threat.

Windows, Security, Gaming, Software, Monitoring

6 points by zdw 18 days ago | 1 comments

Google is bringing every Android game to Windows in big gaming update (arstechnica.com)
Google has big plans for gaming in 2025.

Gaming, Android, Windows, Google

9 points by LorenDB 19 days ago | 0 comments

Burger King sells Windows 7 Whoppers as Microsoft begins Guru training (2009) (appleinsider.com)
In concert with Thursday's release of Windows 7, Burger King in Japan has begun selling a Whopper with seven patties of meat; and a Microsoft Store "Guru" has been spotted in person.

Marketing, Technology, Food, Windows

4 points by austinallegro 20 days ago | 0 comments

Unraveling Time: A Deep Dive into TTD Instruction Emulation Bugs (cloud.google.com)
This blog post presents an in-depth exploration of Microsoft's Time Travel Debugging (TTD) framework, a powerful record-and-replay debugging framework for Windows user-mode applications.

Debugging, Security, Microsoft, Windows

26 points by threat_analyst 22 days ago | 5 comments

Free95: An open-source Windows-compatible operating system (github.com/Versoft-Software)
Free95 is an open-source windows-compatible operating system.

Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Windows

28 points by jnord 23 days ago | 17 comments

Nearly 1M Windows devices targeted in advanced "malvertising" spree (arstechnica.com)
Nearly 1 million Windows devices were targeted in recent months by a sophisticated "malvertising" campaign that surreptitiously stole login credentials, cryptocurrency, and other sensitive information from infected machines, Microsoft said.

Cybersecurity, Malware, Windows, Microsoft, Data Breaches

6 points by LinuxBender 25 days ago | 2 comments

Arranging invisible icons in quadratic time (2021) (wordpress.com)
Near the end of January I was pointed to a twitter thread where a Windows user with a powerful machine was hitting random hangs in explorer. Lots of unscientific theories were being proposed. I don’t generally do random analysis of strangers’ performance problems but the case sounded interesting so I thought I’d take a look.

Performance Optimization, Windows, Debugging, Software Development

62 points by fanf2 26 days ago | 27 comments

Investigating an argument-dependent lookup issue and working around it (microsoft.com)
C++/WinRT pull request 1225 fixed a problem with a call to invoke. What’s the problem, why did it show up all of a sudden, and what can you do if you are stuck on an older version of C++/WinRT?

C++, Software Development, Debugging, Programming, Windows

46 points by luu 26 days ago | 3 comments

Show HN: Appstat – Process Monitor for Windows (pragmar.com)
Monitor CPU, memory, disk, and thread metrics in real-time for running applications.

Windows, Process Monitoring, Software, Tools

86 points by pragmar 28 days ago | 28 comments

Show HN: Open-Source Windows AI assistant that uses Word, Excel through COM (github.com/Alkali-Sim)
A Windows desktop AI assistant built in Python. Assistant (without tools) is ~1000 lines of python code, with super simple chat UI inspired by the original AI, SmarterChild. Uses Windows COM automation to interface with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel), Images, and your file system. Perfect for Windows users looking to explore AI-powered desktop automation.

Open Source, AI, Windows, Automation, Programming

75 points by edmgood 29 days ago | 22 comments

Windows 11 Insider Preview Build (windows.com)
Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.4950 (KB5052078) to the Beta Channel.

Windows, Operating Systems, Software Updates, Beta Testing

46 points by taubek 30 days ago | 231 comments

Windows 11 pirates have a new and unlikely ally – Microsoft Copilot (windowscentral.com)

Windows, Security, Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft

9 points by miles 33 days ago | 3 comments

Intel 8th, 9th and 10th Gen CPUs absent from Windows 11 24H2 CPU support list (tomshardware.com)

Windows, Intel, Hardware, Operating Systems, CPUs

5 points by akyuu 34 days ago | 1 comments

Warp, the intelligent terminal, now available on Windows (warp.dev)
Today, Warp’s AI-powered terminal is available on Windows. With this release, Warp’s agentic, modern, and collaborative experience is available to users of all major operating systems.

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Windows, Operating Systems

9 points by gschier 34 days ago | 3 comments

Windows Notepad and Paint Now Have Paid Subscription Only AI Features [video] (youtube.com)

Windows, AI, Software, Subscription Services

6 points by jarsin 35 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: Electro – A hyper-fast Windows image viewer with a built-in terminal (github.com/pTinosq)
⚡Electro is a blazingly fast image viewer built with Rust, featuring an integrated terminal for enhanced productivity.

Software, Programming, Windows, Tools, Rust

46 points by Tinos 36 days ago | 40 comments

Understanding Surrogate Pairs: Why Some Windows Filenames Can't Be Read (zaferbalkan.com)
This time I am going to write about some odd behavior by Windows. The behavior is by design and there is no obvious security impact. Therefore, this article is written just for the sake of sharing some geeky content.

Windows, File Systems, Programming, Technical Details

85 points by feldrim 37 days ago | 62 comments

Simplewall Has Been Discontinued (github.com/henrypp)
Simple tool to configure Windows Filtering Platform (WFP) which can configure network activity on your computer.

Network Security, Windows, Open Source, Tools, Discontinued

54 points by akyuu 38 days ago | 79 comments

Show HN: WinCse – Integrating AWS S3 with Windows Explorer (github.com/cbh34680)
WinCse is an application that integrates AWS S3 buckets with Windows Explorer, allowing you to treat S3 buckets as if they were part of your local file system.

Windows, AWS, Cloud Storage, File Management, Open Source

65 points by cbh34680 40 days ago | 20 comments