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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,582 posts.
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OpenXcom 1.0
More platforms coming soon. For those making the ports, don’t forget to include the extra translations with your release. There’s also a Source Tarball available with it all included .
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ChessBase and Stockfish end their legal dispute
Stockfish is a free, open-source, and cross-platform chess engine, trusted by grandmasters and leading chess platforms worldwide.
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JQuery 1.5 released: .sub(), ajax rewrite, speed improvements, more
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
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Firefox 43 released with 64-bit version for Windows, better Private Browsing
We'd also like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox!
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Darklang Goes Open Source
As part of shutting down Dark Inc. and forming Darklang Inc., we've finally open-sourced all of our repositories. Our source code is now under the Apache License 2.0. For years, we wrestled with questions of sustainability and how to build something that truly empowers developers. We've
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Forgejo
After many days of hard work and preparation by a team of former Gitea maintainers and enthusiasts from the FOSS community, we are proud to announce that the Forgejo project is now live.
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Godot 4 Release Candidate 1
The wait is almost over! With Godot 4.0 coming close to stable, we finalize our efforts to fix the remaining critical issues and add the last coat of polish with the first Release Candidate.
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F-Droid Board of Directors nominations 2026
Nominations are now open for this year’s appointments to the F-Droid Board of Directors! We are looking to select up to four volunteer directors to serve for...
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Fedora 39 Released
We’re pleased to bring you Fedora Linux 39, our complete, community-built operating system. And stop by our virtual release party! It's free!
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GitLab Mattermost, an open source on-premises Slack alternative
We're very excited to announce that we'll ship GitLab Mattermost, an open source, on-premises messaging app (like Slack) along with GitLab.
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PC-BSD Evolves into TrueOS
Hey TrueOS Community! I just wanted to take a few minutes to address what some of you may have already guessed. With a heavy heart, the TrueOS Project’s core
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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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No-Cost RHEL Developer Subscription Now Available
May 2019 UPDATE - The no-cost developer subscription now includes RHEL 8.
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New tools for open source maintainers
We're making it easier for maintainers to grow healthy open source communities on GitHub with minimized comments, retired namespaces for popular projects, and new pull request requirements.
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AuraFlow v0.1: a open source alternative to Stable Diffusion 3
Open-source AI is in jeopardy. As community interest in AI models skyrocketed over the past year, we noticed that development of new open-source foundational models came to a halt. Some even boldly announced that open-source AI is dead. Not so fast! We are excited to present you
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CIQ, Oracle, SUSE Create Open Enterprise Linux Association
CIQ, Oracle and SUSE Create Open Enterprise Linux Association for a Collaborative and Open Future
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Don’t buy System76 hardware and expect to get firmware updates from the LVFS
Update 2021-11-12: System76 is now using the LVFS to distribute firmware. We're working together to put much more firmware on the LVFS in the future. System76 is a hardware vendor that builds laptops with the Pop_OS! Linux distribution pre-loaded. System76 machines do get firmware updates, but do not use the fwupd and…
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WordPress names their 3.1 release: Reinhardt
The long-awaited fourteenth release of WordPress is now available. WordPress 3.1 “Reinhardt” is named in honor of the jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. Version 3.1 is available for download, or you …
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Arm Open Source makes a seamless migration to GitLab
Start a GitLab free trial with 30 days on GitLab.com including Duo Enterprise or 30 days self-managed without Duo Enterprise. Empower your DevOps workflow!
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Guix: Unifying provisioning, deployment, and management in the age of containers
This talk will reflect on what GNU Guix has to offer to users and how it compares to other approaches—from CONDA and pip to Flatpak and Docker. Guix is not only a transactional package manager and declarative GNU/Linux distribution: it’s also an environment manager, a container provisioning tool, and more. We will…
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Elementary OS 6 beta
What’s a beta, and what’s new for developers?
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Walmart Labs: Why we run an open source program
Over the coming weeks, we are publishing a series of blog posts from TODO Group members, explaining why each company has decided to run programs to publish, use, and improve open source software - and the benefits that result. First up, Dion Almaer (@dalmaer) with Walmart Labs’ perspective. Why would a company spend…
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Linux ext2 filesystem driver now marked as deprecated
31 years after the start of its career in 1993, it’s time for ext2 to retire. Here we are talking about the driver for this filesystem, not exactly the filesystem itself. Continue reading to understand the subtle difference.
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The first 10k games at bgammon.org, an open source online backgammon service
An overview of the journey so far.
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BitHub = Bitcoin + GitHub. An experiment in funding privacy OSS
At Open Whisper Systems, we often get emails from people who’d like to donate money to the project. For an OSS project, particularly one that aspires to a collective sense of ownership, handling donations is not always entirely straightforward. The fundamental contradiction is that while donatio...
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MirageOS 4.0 – Self-managed internet infrastructure with unikernels
Read the post on "Announcing MirageOS 4.0.0" from our blog.