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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,582 posts.
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LibreOffice 6.0 released
Berlin, January 31, 2018 – The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 6.0, a major release and a dramatically improved free office suite, which celebrates the 7th anniversary of the availability of the very first version of LibreOffice. Today LibreOffice is more powerful, simple and secure, and offers superior…
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Godot 3.0 game engine released
After more than 18 months of development, all Godot Engine contributors are proud to present our biggest release so far, Godot 3.0! It brings a brand new rendering engine with state-of-the-art PBR workflow for 3D, an improved assets pipeline, GDNative to load native code as plugins, C# 7.0 support, and many other…
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Firefox 58
With this release, we’re building on the great foundation provided by our all-new Firefox Quantum browser . We're optimizing the performance gains we released in 57 by improving the way we render graphics and cache JavaScript. We also made functional and privacy improvements to Firefox Screenshots. On Firefox for…
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219 days of postmarketOS
Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones
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Homebrew 1.5.0
Today I’d like to announce Homebrew 1.5.0. The most significant changes since 1.4.0 are deprecations of formula APIs and some Homebrew organisation formula taps.
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Bootstrap 4
It's literally taken us years to do it, but Bootstrap 4 has finally arrived! Words cannot begin to describe the elation the entire team and I have for this…
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Librem 5 Phone Progress Report
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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Turning a side project into an open-source project
The world benefits from open source, big time. In this blog post, we’re going to spell out how you and the world can benefit from your side project, too.
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ESP8266 ePaper WiFi Display Kit Runs for Months on a Charge
In my humble opinion—as I’ve mentioned elsewhere—ePaper is really an amazing display technology that has never really burst onto the mainstream. ePaper is incredibly energy efficient, requiri…
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ScummVM 2.0 released
Just in time for the holidays, the final release of ScummVM 2.0 is here! This version adds support for 23 brand new old games, including almost all of the 32-bit Sierra adventures: Cranston Manor Full Pipe Gabriel Knight Gabriel Knight 2 King's Que…
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Avast open-sources its machine-code decompiler
After seven years of development, Avast open-sources its machine-code decompiler for platform-independent analysis of executable files.
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Homebrew 1.4.0
Today I’d like to announce Homebrew 1.4.0. The most significant change since 1.3.0 is that Homebrew filters environment variables.
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The importance of Devuan
Affordable VM hosting in Glarus, Switzerland, operated by 100% hydropower. Devuan, debian, freebsd, ubuntu, centos. Our tech stack is fully open source.
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Qt 5.10 released
Explore the Qt Blog for the latest insights on e.g. Qt Creator, your go-to source for cross-platform development tips and updates.
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ReactOS 0.4.7 released
ReactOS is a free, opensource reimplementation of windows
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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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Alpine Linux 3.7.0 Released
Alpine Linux
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Initial Release of Mozilla’s Open Source Speech Recognition Model and Voice Data
With the holiday, gift-giving season upon us, many people are about to experience the ease and power of new speech-enabled devices. Technical advancements
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How Facebook's Instagram Acquisition Led to the Open Sourcing of React.js
Pete Hunt, CEO @ Smyte. OG React.js. Ex-Facebook and Instagram [React](/react) is now one of the most popular JavaScript UI libraries in
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Debian and GNOME announce plans to migrate communities to GitLab
GitLab today announced it was abandoning the industry-standard Contributor License Agreement in favor of a Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) and license