Hackernews posts about Windows

Windows is Microsoft's popular operating system and software suite for personal computers and other devices.

1. Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows (mouseless.click)
   601 points by riddley 26 days ago | 248 comments
2. Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything (www.windowscentral.com)
   570 points by josephcsible 15 days ago | 446 comments
3. Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs (twitter.com)
   332 points by tosh 23 days ago | 557 comments
4. Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs (www.extremetech.com)
   322 points by tcp_handshaker 9 days ago | 180 comments
5. ReactOS (FOSS "Windows") achieves 3D-accelerated Half-Life on real hardware (www.phoronix.com)
   290 points by jeditobe 16 days ago | 80 comments
6. Don't trust large context windows (garrit.xyz)
   277 points by computersuck 15 days ago | 195 comments
7. Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates (www.neowin.net)
   251 points by bundie 4 days ago | 231 comments
8. What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000 (movq.de)
   235 points by npongratz 11 days ago | 208 comments
9. Coreutils for Windows (github.com)
   227 points by gigel82 27 days ago | 247 comments
10. WSL 2 is getting faster Windows file system access (www.boxofcables.dev)
    182 points by haydenbarnes 25 days ago | 171 comments
11. Windows GOG DOS Games on M-Series Macs (f055.net)
    168 points by f055 28 days ago | 86 comments
12. Windows UI evolution: Clicking an unassociated file (movq.de)
    142 points by jandeboevrie 8 days ago | 113 comments
13. window.showDirectoryPicker opens up a whole new world (steveharrison.dev)
    113 points by steveharrison 7 days ago | 112 comments
14. Running Windows Games on a Hobby OS with Wine (astral-os.org)
    111 points by avaliosdev 5 days ago | 37 comments
15. Windows NT for GameCube/Wii (github.com)
    97 points by zdw 10 days ago | 12 comments
16. Sogen – High-performance Windows and Linux userspace emulator (sogen.dev)
    89 points by fratellobigio 14 days ago | 25 comments
17. Windows 11 25H2 – I'm so happy to not be using this (www.dedoimedo.com)
    82 points by speckx 12 days ago | 44 comments
18. Show HN: My Windows XP portfolio with working Game Boy and iPod (mitchivin.com)
    71 points by mitchivin 9 days ago | 35 comments
19. Windows 1.0 and the WinAPI, 40 Years Later (medium.com)
    51 points by jhack 18 days ago | 53 comments
20. Building Principia for Windows XP (voxelmanip.se)
    49 points by LorenDB about 2 hours ago | 8 comments
21. Windows 11 update broke the Recycle Bin, OneDrive, and your PC's stability (www.techspot.com)
    45 points by speckx 10 days ago | 15 comments
22. The placeholder name for the Windows 8 experience was "modern" (devblogs.microsoft.com)
    41 points by paulmooreparks 27 days ago | 54 comments
23. Setting Up a New Windows Laptop in 2026 (matthewquerzoli.com)
    38 points by Quiza12 11 days ago | 24 comments
24. A powerful new chapter for Windows PCs, accelerated by Nvidia RTX Spark (blogs.windows.com)
    34 points by WalterSobchak 28 days ago | 37 comments
25. Yap – free offline voice dictation for Mac/Windows/Linux (Wispr Flow alt) (github.com)
    29 points by AkuchiS 1 day ago | 12 comments
26. MSYS2 and the No-Fuss Way to Get More GNU into Your Windows (hackaday.com)
    29 points by Tomte 7 days ago | discuss
27. Wslc: A native Linux container runtime for Windows (www.boxofcables.dev)
    23 points by m3h 25 days ago | discuss
28. The French are painting their windows with chalk to beat the heat (www.bbc.com)
    21 points by geox 3 days ago | 15 comments
29. Byobu – text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer (github.com)
    16 points by modinfo 11 days ago | 16 comments
30. WinUtils: Shell-powered CLI tools for Windows 95 (www.codenaked.com)
    16 points by code_naked 27 days ago | 4 comments