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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,682 posts.
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ShareLaTeX Joins Overleaf
An online LaTeX editor that’s easy to use. No installation, real-time collaboration, version control, hundreds of LaTeX templates, and more.
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Open Container Initiative specifications are 1.0
No single cloud fits all. Explore how we build a more flexible future with hybrid cloud.
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OpenBSD on the Huawei MateBook X
The Huawei MateBook X is a high-quality 13" ultra-thin laptop with a fanless Core i5 processor. It is obviously biting the design of the Apple 12" MacBook , but it does have some notable improvements such as a slightly larger screen, a more usable keyboard with adequate key travel, and 2 USB-C ports.
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50 days of postmarketOS
We are fed up with Android's endless forks! Fifty days ago I have announced postmarketOS, a touch-optimized, pre-configured Alpine Linux , which can be installed on smartphones. It avoids Android's bad habit of forking software for every single device (!) entirely by going the other way around and unifying as much as…
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Fedora 26 released
[This message comes from the desk of the Fedora Project Leader directly. Happy release day! — Ed.] Hi everyone! I’m incredibly proud to announce the immediate availability of Fedora 26. Read more below, or just jump to download from: Get Fedora 26 Workstation Get Fedora 26 Server Get Fedora 26 Atomic Host ← includes…
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Ten years after first shipping Openmoko Neo1973
Exactly 10 years ago, on July 9th, 2007 we started to sell+ship the first Openmoko Neo1973. To be more precise, the webshop actually opened a few hours early, depending on your time zone. Sean announ
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Grsecurity: Potential contributory infringement and breach of contract risk
It's my strong opinion that your company should avoid the Grsecurity product sold at grsecurity.net because it presents a contributory infringement and breach of contract risk.
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A Call to Arms: Supporting Matrix
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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Manage Kubernetes Clusters on AWS Using Kops
Any containerized application typically consists of multiple containers. There are containers for the application itself, a database, possibly a web server, and so on. During development, it’s normal to build and test this multi-container application on a single host. This approach works fine during early dev and test…
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Why Is NumPy Only Now Getting Funded?
Recently we announced that NumPy, a foundational package for scientific computing with Python, had received its first-ever grant funding since the start of the project in 2006. Community interest in this announcement was massive, raising our website traffic by over 2600%. The predominant reaction was one of…
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KeePassXC 2.2.0 released with YubiKey and TOTP support
KeePassXC Password Manager
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Porting Swift to Haiku
Hello everyone! This report covers the span of the last two weeks of my porting efforts to get swift running on Haiku. I started debugging the runtime library ’libswiftCore’ on both Haiku and Linux and focused my attention specifically to …
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Mozilla and NSF offer $2M prize to decentralize the web
We’re fueling a healthy Internet by supporting big ideas that keep the web accessible, decentralized and resilient. What will you build? Mozilla and t
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Debian 9 Stretch released
[09 Dec 2017] Updated Debian 8: 8.10 released [09 Dec 2017] Updated Debian 9: 9.3 released [07 Oct 2017] Updated Debian 9: 9.2 released [12 Aug 2017] DebConf17 closes in Montreal and DebConf18 dates announced [22 Jul 2017] Updated Debian 9: 9.1 released [22 Jul 2017] Updated Debian 8: 8.9 released [18 Jun 2017] Debian…
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Atom 1.18 released
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
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New analysis reveals significant ROI in open source technologies
Examples abound of leading tech companies that have adopted open source strategy and contribute actively to open source tools and communities. Google, for example, has been a long contributor to open source with projects – such as its popular mobile operating system, Android – and recently launched a directory of ...
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NumPy receives first ever funding, thanks to Moore Foundation
For the first time ever, NumPy—a core project for the Python scientific computing stack—has received grant funding. The proposal, “Improving NumPy for Better Data Science” will receive $645,020 from the Moore Foundation over 2 years, with the funding going to UC Berkeley Institute for Data Science. The principal…
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Inkscape Moves to GitLab
The Inkscape project has completed its planned move from launchpad using the bazaar repository system, to GitLab using the git repository system.
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Understanding the “GPL is a Contract” court case
There's been a lot of confusion about the recent Artifex v. Hancom case, in which the court found that the GPL was an enforceable contract. I'm going to try to explain the whole thing in clear terms for the legal layman.
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Underscore's Scala books are now open source
From today we’re open-sourcing all of our books. They can all be downloaded for free, or you can checkout the source from their Github repositories. In this post I explain why we made this decision and what it means for our books in the future
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ReactOS 0.4.5 Released
ReactOS is a free, opensource reimplementation of windows
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PostmarketOS: Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones
Introduction post to postmarketOS , a touch-optimized, pre-configured Alpine Linux with own packages, that can be installed on smartphones. (Not usable for most people yet!)
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Npm v5.0.0 released
npm Blog (Archive); updates from the npm team are now published on the GitHub Blog and the GitHub Changelog
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