Most cited
Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 16 posts.
The Future of Developing Firefox Add-ons
Today we are announcing some major upcoming changes to Firefox add-ons. Our add-on ecosystem has evolved through incremental, organic growth over the years, but there are some modernizations to Firefox ...
Signify: Securing OpenBSD from Us to You
I'm going to talk today about signify, a tool I wrote for the OpenBSD project that cryptographically signs and verifies. This allows us to ensure that the releases we ship arrive on your computer in their original, intended form, without tampering.
The Systemd Chronicles
There is a menace which is spreading like a disease throughout the Linux world, it is called systemd .
Principles of Community-Oriented GPL Enforcement
The Software Freedom Conservancy provides a non-profit home and services to Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects.
Show HN: Let's Chat, a self-hosted chat app for small teams
Self-hosted chat for small teams.
GCC 5.1 released
Command-line optimization and target options are now streamed on a per-function basis and honored by the link-time optimizer. This change makes link-time optimization a more transparent replacement of per-file optimizations. It is now possible to build projects that require different optimization settings for…
Updating Our Open Source Patent Grant
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Bootstrap 4 alpha
Today is a special day for Bootstrap. Not only is it our fourth birthday, but after a year of development, we're finally shipping the first alpha release of…
Important Notice Regarding Public Availability of Stable Patches
grsecurity is the only drop-in Linux kernel replacement offering high-performance, state-of-the-art exploit prevention against both known and unknown threats.
VMWare Taken to Court Over GPL Violation
Software Freedom Conservancy announces today Christoph Hellwig's lawsuit against VMware in the district court of Hamburg in Hamburg, Germany. This is the regretful but necessary next step in both Hellwig and Conservancy's ongoing effort to convince VMware to comply properly with the terms of the GNU General Public…
Thanks HN: Glowforge will open-source its firmware
Meet Glowforge, the 3D laser printer that makes magical things at the push of a button.