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This Month in Ladybird – October 2026
CSS animations and hover that keep working while JavaScript is busy, a JavaScript JIT, a new WebAssembly engine, and a redesigned UI.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,677 posts.
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The federated code forge
For most of the past two decades, the code forge has been where projects live: where code is hosted, where changes are reviewed, and where contributors find each other. Forges offered convenience in exchange for centralisation.
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The importance of communities around software
I've done a lot of activism for software freedom, over the years. At first it was purely for software freedom and related topics, (such as security, autonomy and privacy) but eventually this has evolved into something more holistic. I believe that the software I use should be held to higher ethical standards than only…
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We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4
The weights of Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk) are now open. A 1T parameter multimodal model, and best open-weight model for coding, trained in Europe.
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Academics have a duty to defend open knowledge systems like Wikipedia
Wikipedia faces existential challenges from generative AI companies. Do researchers and teachers in higher education have an ethical duty to defend it?
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Putting Linux on my RTX Spark laptop because I don't have a Microsoft account
Arch Linux ARM on the ASUS ProArt P16, with a bootable installer, published Windows comparisons, and local Qwen inference.
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Apple ML Research: Muse Spark Open with MLX on Mac Studio
MLX on Mac with Apple silicon lets AI researchers and developers experiment locally with the latest models and methods in a private…
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Lean now ships with verified kernels
Leonardo de Moura — Creator of Lean and Z3
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Libreboot 26.10 "Ominous Olive" released with UEFI, Chromebook support
Libreboot – Libreboot 26.10 “Ominous Olive” released! With full UEFI support.
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LineageOS 24
You know what's funnier than 24?
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Strands Decider 2B: a small, open-source, decision model
Strands Decider 2B is a small, open source, decision model optimized for fast experimentation, local development, and innovation.
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Open Source as We Know It Is Dead
I've been part of open source for most of my life. This year, the projects I love started closing their doors to outside contributors, and I don't blame them one bit, but it makes me sad. A personal look at how AI is changing open source as I've known it.
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Picard 3.0
The Picard team is happy to announce the new major version 3.0 of MusicBrainz Picard, now available to download . MusicBrainz Picard is the official tag editor for the MusicBrainz database and helps you get your music collection sorted and cleaned up with data from MusicBrainz.
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Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model
Kolibri is an English-German Mixture-of-Experts model with 78B total and 3B active parameters, a context of up to 1M tokens and open weights under Apache 2.0, specialized for sovereign, mission-critical work.
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PostmarketOS is rebranding as Nura
Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones
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Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS
DAWO.community, working together on a digitally autonomous workplace for the Dutch government.
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F-Droid 2.0
After more than a year of hard work, we are thrilled to announce the launch of F-Droid 2.0, a complete redesign of the official F-Droid app and the largest a...
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Radicle: Disclosure of Vulnerability in the Network Protocol
Sovereign code infrastructure.
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Strands Harness
Strands harness is a fully assembled, customizable, state-of-the-art agent you run locally or deploy anywhere.
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Nobody pays for FOSS, we can force them to
Thirty years of voluntary funding schemes haven't paid open source maintainers because asking doesn't scale. The real money already flows — to JFrog, Docker, Sonatype — at the registry layer. The fix: registries charge companies for supply (they already do), then route a slice automatically to the maintainers who make…
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Science Is Open Software
TL;DR I claim that modern science is synonymous with open source software. This post explains why, why it matters, and what you can (and should) do next. Why do you care about (open source) software? - Everyone I spend a lot of my time working on software. I have been asked why software matters more times than I can…
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CrowdSec Source Code Leak
CrowdSec update on a source code exposure that occurred in May 2026, including the scope, impact, investigation, and security measures taken.
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PS5 Linux lead quits: "a bunch of noobs using LLMs" that "they don't understand"
The lead of the ongoing PS5 Linux project has left the homebrew scene following the wave of AI vibe-coders joining open-source spaces.
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How much of F-Droid is LLM generated?
Investigating the use of LLMs in the Android FOSS community
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Open-source AI and open models reading list
How to get up to speed on open models and their implications.
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Homebrew 7.0.0
Today, I’m proud to announce Homebrew 7.0.0. The most significant changes since 6.0.0 are faster installations and upgrades, stronger sandboxing, a native macOS app, built-in vulnerability checks and an advisory database, the end of macOS 10.15 support and Intel Macs moving to Tier 3.