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MIDI 2.0 (and enhanced MIDI 1.0) comes to Windows 11

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2026/0...

Ordered Dithering with Arbitrary or Irregular Colour Palettes (2023)

https://matejlou.blog/2023/12/06/ordered-dithering...

An ode to bzip

https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/an-ode-to-bzip/

SBCL Fibers – Lightweight Cooperative Threads

https://atgreen.github.io/repl-yell/posts/sbcl-fib...

If you thought code writing speed was your problem you have bigger problems

https://andrewmurphy.io/blog/if-you-thought-the-sp...

Apple can delist apps "with or without cause," judge says in loss for Musi app

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/judge-...

Why refusing AI is a fight for the soul

https://restofworld.org/2026/techno-negative-thoma...

Flagged as Trojan by Play Protect

https://github.com/sunilpaulmathew/AppVaultX/issue...

Demos of 2025 from the Demoscene

https://laurent.le-brun.eu/blog/the-best-demos-of-...

Memory Allocation Strategies

https://www.gingerbill.org/series/memory-allocatio...

The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ

https://www.charlespetzold.com/blog/2026/02/The-Ap...

Atmospheric Simulation in R

https://www.tylermw.com/posts/rayverse/atmospheric...

Ageless Linux – Software for humans of indeterminate age

https://agelesslinux.org/

How the Strait of Hormuz closure affects global oil supply

https://www.reuters.com/graphics/IRAN-CRISIS/OIL-L...

Open AI is actively censoring information about voting today in the US

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Show HN: Goal.md, a goal-specification file for autonomous coding agents

https://github.com/jmilinovich/goal-md

FFmpeg 8.1 "Hoare" has been released

https://ffmpeg.org/download.html#release_8.1

385TB video game archive saved by fans; torrents being generated

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gam...

AI still doesn't work well, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/17/ai_business...

Schemesh – Unix shell and Lisp REPL, now with structured pipelines

https://github.com/cosmos72/schemesh/blob/main/REA...

What is agentic engineering?

https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineeri...

The seven hour explosion nobody could explain

https://phys.org/news/2026-03-hour-explosion.html

Move the 2026 ICM out of the United States

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdHJhc8X8...

Badreads

https://www.funnest.world/badreads

Cuba's national electric grid collapses, leaving millions without power

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/cubas-nati...

Office.eu launches as Europe's sovereign office platform

https://office.eu/media/pressrelease-20260304

VisiCalc Reconstructed

https://zserge.com/posts/visicalc/

Show HN: Basalt – IDE-like documentation for infrastructure and API

https://basalt-docs.com

Unified Attestation: free open-source alternative to Google Play Integrity

https://uattest.net/

Nvidia's DLSS 5 uses generative AI to boost photorealism in video games

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/16/nvidias-dlss-5-u...