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Grand MS-DOS Gaming General MIDI Showdown (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-15 | by John Novak | get Roland SC-55 Sound Canvas reissue → | tags: roland sc-55, yamaha mu80, general midi

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MS NOW Wants to Turn Its Viewers Into a Fandom (wired.com)

2026-09-09 | by Katie Drummond | get Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Max → | tags: ms now, msnbc, rebecca kutler

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Synergistic degradation of fucoidans in the ocean (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-26 | by Sichert | tags: fucoidan, fucus vesiculosus, sigma-aldrich

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MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-24 | get Wacom Intuos wireless drawing tablet → | tags: ms paint, microsoft, guid

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Os8088.com: IBM XT OS now has a Browser, CP/M 2.2 with Z80 core and MS Word 1.1a (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-19 | tags: ibm xt, os8088.com, cp/m 2.2

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Critical RCE flaw in Windows IKE Extension now actively exploited (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-19 | tags: windows, ike, ms-ikee

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The little-known winstart.bat batch file (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | by Raymond Chen | tags: winstart.bat, autoexec.bat, virtual machine manager

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Have a laugh at AI’s expense by roleplaying as a chatbot (theverge.com)

2026-08-15 | by Terrence O'Brien | tags: chatbot, llm, ms-paint

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Turbo Pascal on CP/M, MSX-DOS and MS-DOS (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: pascal, msx-dos, niklaus wirth

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Can MS Paint run Doom? (Yes) (engadget.com)

2026-08-04 | by Lawrence Bonk | tags: ms paint, doom, mark russinovich

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Branchless Rust: Making a Filter 4x Faster by Removing an If (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-03 | by Serhii Potapov | tags: branch, branchless, input

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Is There a Way to Promote Open Document Formats Instead of 'MS Office' Format? (slashdot.org)

2026-08-02 | by Posted | tags: ms office, ooxml, ecma

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Three Astronauts Safely Return from Space Station, Landing in Kazakhstan Steppe (slashdot.org)

2026-07-26 | by Posted | tags: nasa, soyuz ms-28, international space station

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Show HN: Aict – Unix coreutils that output XML/JSON, built for AI agents (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-15 | tags: aict, file, ms ms

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Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-14 | tags: dxvk, latency, low latency

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Show HN: Rejourney – Open-source revenue leak prediction for web and mobile apps (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-14 | tags: ms ms, native, rejourney

17.

Iman Vellani Wants Superhero Movies to Step Up (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-12 | tags: count, current ms, feeling

18.

WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-27 | get Vintage Word Processor Software → | tags: wordstar, robert j. sawyer, ms-dos

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CP/M-86 & MS-DOS Cross Development Environment (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-31 | get MS-DOS Emulator for PC → | tags: cpm-z80, ms-dos, aztec-c

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Multicore suppport for DOS is real – partly (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-31 | by Native Smp Dos Like Os Using Dos Code | get DOSBox Emulator → | tags: ms dos, multicore support, os development

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Childhood Computing (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-24 | get Kids Coding Starter Kit → | tags: ibm, ms-dos, logo

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Microsoft open-sources “the earliest DOS source code discovered to date” (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-24 | get Microsoft MS-DOS Source Code → | tags: ms-dos, microsoft, 86-dos

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Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date" (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-24 | get Microsoft MS-DOS Source Code Kit → | tags: ms-dos, microsoft, 86-dos

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What is the history of the ERROR_ARENA_TRASHED error code? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-20 | by Raymond Chen | get Memory Management Debugging Tool → | tags: ms-dos, error code 7, error_arena_trashed

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Discord improves Linux support with Steam Deck and distro-friendly upgrades (techspot.com)

2026-05-18 | get Steam Deck Linux Accessories → | tags: discord, steam deck, linux

26.

My first in-prod corrupted hard drive problem (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-08 | get External Hard Drive Enclosure → | tags: hard drive, ms sql, cybersecurity

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Ars Asks: Share your shell and show us your tricked-out terminals! (arstechnica.com)

2026-05-06 | get USB Type-C Hub → | tags: bash, windows, ms-dos

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How do I inform Windows that I'm writing a binary file? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-05 | by Raymond Chen | get Hexadecimal Editor Software → | tags: windows, binary mode, ms-dos

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Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables? (2015) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-02 | by Raymond Chen | tags: ms-dos, environment variables, cp/m

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Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date" (arstechnica.com)

2026-04-30 | get Microsoft MS-DOS Source Code Kit → | tags: ms-dos, microsoft, 86-dos