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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 106 posts.

Open Source
2013
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Sony Pirates KDE Artwork

Sony, the company who created Audio CDs which installed a rootkit on Windows computer to try to stop people copying music has pirated KDE artwork. The preferences-system.png icon from Oxygen is on their Choose your Vaio webpages (next to configure) but impressively is also on the UEFI firmware should you boot up into…

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Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" released

[14 Dec 2013] Updated Debian 7: 7.3 released [20 Oct 2013] Updated Debian 6.0: 6.0.8 released [12 Oct 2013] Updated Debian 7: 7.2 released [28 Sep 2013] Debian Edu / Skolelinux Wheezy — a complete Linux solution for your school [09 Aug 2013] Debian invites you to its 20th birthday [15 Jun 2013] Updated Debian 7: 7.1…

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VLC 2.1.0

Legal | Report Trademark Abuse VideoLAN, VLC, VLC media player and x264 are trademarks internationally registered by the VideoLAN non-profit organization. VideoLAN software is licensed under various open-source licenses: use and distribution are defined by each software license.

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Wireshark is switching to Qt

Today I released the next development version of Wireshark, 1.11.0. This marks a major change in the direction of the project. We’re switching our user interface library from GTK+ to Qt. Both libraries make it easy for developers write applications that will run on different platforms without having to rewrite a lot…

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Firefox 22 released

Check out "What’s New" and "Known Issues" for this version of Firefox below. As always, you’re encouraged to tell us what you think , or file a bug in Bugzilla .We'd also like extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to Firefox 22!