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Most cited
Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 463 posts.
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Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-source developer productivity
We conduct a randomized controlled trial to understand how early-2025 AI tools affect the productivity of experienced open-source developers working on their own repositories. Surprisingly, we find that when developers use AI tools, they take 19% longer than without—AI makes them slower.
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Software That Sucks Less
We are the home of quality software such as dwm , dmenu , st and plenty of other tools , with a focus on simplicity, clarity and frugality. Our philosophy is about keeping things simple, minimal and usable. We believe this should become the mainstream philosophy in the IT sector. Unfortunately, the tendency for…
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Expanded extension support in Firefox for Android Nightly
Starting September 30, 2020, you can configure Firefox for Android Nightly to install extensions listed on addons.mozilla.org.
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OpenCore Legacy Patcher – Use new macOS versions on old hardware
Experience macOS just like before
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Rethinking PID 1 (2010)
Posts and writings by Lennart Poettering
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Reproducible Signal builds for Android
As of our latest Android release, Signal builds are reproducible. Reproducible builds help to verify that the source code in our GitHub repository is the exact source code used to build the compiled Signal APK being distributed through Google Play.
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Linux Problems on the Desktop (2018)
In this regularly but rarely updated article, which is without doubt the most comprehensive list of Linux distributions' problems on the entire Internet, we only discuss their main problems and shortcomings (which may be the reason why some people say Linux distros are not ready for the desktop) while everyone should…
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From Gongkai to Open Source
About a year and a half ago, I wrote about a $12 “Gongkai” cell phone (pictured above) that I stumbled across in the markets of Shenzhen, China. My most striking impression was that Chinese entrepreneurs had relatively unfettered access to cutting-edge technology, enabling start-ups to innovate while bootstrapping…
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PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes
Home | FAQ | Feedback | Licence | Updates | Mirrors | Keys | Links | Team Download: Stable · Snapshot | Docs | Privacy | Changes | Wishlist
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Nix 2.0 Released
Nix reference manual version overview
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Open Source Certification:Press Releases
Announcement of “OSI Certified” Open Source Mark On June 15 1999 ZDNet broke the news that OSI’s application for an Open Source trademark had lapsed, anticipating the public state…
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Everything I Know About the XZ Backdoor
Please note: This is being updated in real-time. The intent is to make sense of lots of simultaneous discoveries
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Kik, left-pad, and npm
npm Blog (Archive); updates from the npm team are now published on the GitHub Blog and the GitHub Changelog
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The Full-Source Bootstrap: Building from source all the way down
Blog posts about GNU Guix.
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The Cathedral and the Bazaar (1999)
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the Open Publication License, version 2.0.
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Go and Versioning: Minimal Version Selection
A versioned Go command must decide which module versions to use in each build. I call this list of modules and versions for use in a given build the build list . For stable development, today’s build list must also be tomorrow’s build list. But then developers must also be allowed to change the build list: to upgrade…
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Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project
This post describes the Ladybird browser, based on the LibWeb and LibJS engines from SerenityOS.
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YOLO: Real-Time Object Detection
You only look once (YOLO) is a state-of-the-art, real-time object detection system. On a Pascal Titan X it processes images at 30 FPS and has a mAP of 57.9% on COCO test-dev.
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HashiCorp Switches to BSL License
HashiCorp helps organizations automate hybrid cloud environments with a unified approach to Infrastructure and Security Lifecycle Management.
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History of the Open Source Initiative
Development based on the sharing and collaborative improvement of software source code has a history essentially as long as software development itself. In the late 1990s, interest and participatio…