The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 220 posts.
Advisory: I am not a legal expert and there could likely be inaccuracies in this post. Today Gumroad announced that they’ve become open source, with this being echoed by the founder and on social sites like Hacker News:
We’re planning to release our first open language model since GPT‑2 in the coming months. We’re excited to collaborate with developers, researchers, and the broader community to gather inputs and make this model as useful as possible.
The Classic 2 is a brand new revision of the original Classic, and kits are available today starting at $144CAD !
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The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org
In March 2024, a backdoor was discovered in xz, a (de)-compression software that is regularly used at the core of Linux distributions to unpack source tarballs...
We're excited to release version 7.1 of PeerTube, which continues to evolve graphically, but also to simplify your discoverability! Let's take a close...
Discover Fedora 42 Beta: New AI-focused features for modern application development
Published: 17-03-2025 20:33 | Author: Remy van Elst | Text only version of this article
Popular GitHub Action tj-actions/changed-files has been compromised with a payload that appears to attempt to dump secrets, impacting thousands of CI pipelines.
In March 2025 I received an email asking about PuTTY’s “logo” – the icon used by the Windows executable. The sender wanted to know where it had come from, and how it had evolved over time.
Block rendering until CSS is ready, OpenSSL and curl adoption continues, Firefox DevTools protocol support lands, and aarch64 Linux joins CI.
A short commentary on Mozilla's policy changes and how they affect the user community.
In contrast to OpenAI’s Deep Research, this example ran locally, using only open-source models and tools like Milvus and LangChain.
Musings on SBOMs and licensing woes.
Adventures in programming, hardware, DSP, and chiptune
Update (July 2026): I have started FFmpegKitNext, a source-only continuation of FFmpegKit’s build toolkit and wrapper library.
The other enterprise Linux company
May 2026 update This post was written at a time of significant turmoil in my life, when multiple correlated events happened in quick succession. What I wrote in the post below is true, but a lot was left unsaid, as some things were still being investigated. At the time when I wrote the post, despite resigning from my…
The story of Timefold: how we turned a doomed open source project into a fast-growing PlanningAI company.
The Steam Deck (and SteamOS) delivers a fantastic console-like experience on a Linux system. However, its immutable filesystem means that installing packages that persist across system upgrades isn’t straightforward. Fortunately, with a little Nix magic, you can work around that limitation.
Build reproducibility is often considered as a de facto feature provided by functional package managers like Nix. Although the functional package manager model...
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Summary of Servo’s progress in 2024: some numbers, main highlights and plans for the future.
We are excited to announce that F-Droid has been awarded $396,044 from the Open Technology Fund’s FOSS Sustainability Fund. This grant is specifically design...
Swift continues to grow in popularity as a cross-platform language supporting a wide variety of use cases, with support on a variety of embedded devices, form factors that encompass wearables to server, and a wide variety of operating systems. As Swift expands, there’s value in investing in matching cross-platform…
