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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,100 posts.
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A Bug in Early Creative Commons Licenses Has Enabled Copyleft Trolls (2022)
Copyleft trolls, robosigning, and Pixsy.
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Gnu/Hurd strikes back: How to use the legendary OS in a (somewhat) practical way
How to use the legendary OS in a (somewhat) practical way
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Freshmeat.net, 1997-2014
A former coworker pointed me to the news today that freshmeat has suddenly ceased operations. I spent the rest of the day flooded with memories and the urge to jot a few of them down before they’re…
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NixOS and reproducible builds could have detected the xz backdoor
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...
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RFC: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Minimal Images
To date, we've shaved the Bionic (18.04 LTS) minimal images down by over 53%, since Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and trimmed nearly 100 packages and...
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Why does Debian change software?
When I wrote Why is Debian the way it is? , a year and a half ago, I was asked to also cover why Debian changes the software it packages. Here's a brief list of examples of why that happens:
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Goodbye Freenode
For the last month or so, the IRC world has been embroiled in drama over the new ownership of Freenode. For me, it culminated yesterday when I was banned from Freenode.
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Enter the Matrix – A technical overview and guide to all things Matrix
Matrix is a protocol for decentralised, federated and secure communications, created and maintained by New Vector, a company split between London, UK and Rennes, France. It's based on RESTful HTTP/JSON APIs, documented in open specifications, and is designed to be usable for anything that requires real-time-ish…
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How to contribute to an open source project: look for TODOs in code
Forgotten TODOs: ideas for contributing to open-source projects
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We open-sourced 90 node.js modules at Browserling
At Browserling we are huge open-source fans and we have open-sourced 90 node.js modules! That's right! 90 node.js modules. All written from scratch. We're crazy! Edit: Now we've open-sourced several hundred! Here is the complete list of all the modules together with their brief descriptions. We have published all…
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Ansible open-sources Ansible Tower with AWX
Ever since Red Hat acquired Ansible, I and many others have anticipated whether or when Ansible Tower would be open sourced. Ansible Tower is one of the nicest automation tools I've used... but since I haven't been on a project with the budget to support the Tower licensing fees, I have only used it for testing…
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Serenity OS: Interview
How would you build an operating system? My answer is I wouldn't. First off, I don't know how. And the second thing is it seems like to large of a task. It took thousands of developers to build Windows XP. But actually, it is possible to build an operating system from scratch. My guest is doing it. Andreas Kling…
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What is a System-on-Chip (SoC), and why do we care if they are open source?
Note: This post originally appeared as an update in the crowdfunding campaign for Precursor.
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Sovereign Tech Agency invests €500k in Flatpak
We’re building new Portals for audio, network, VPNs, and more!
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Coding agents could make free software matter again
I've been vibe-coding a lot lately. Like, a lot a lot
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Why the world needs OpenStreetMap (2014)
Every time I tell someone about OpenStreetMap, they inevitably ask "Why not use Google Maps?". From a practical standpoint, it's a reasonable question, but ultimately this is not just a matter of practicality, but of what kind of society we want to live in. I discussed this topic in a 2008 talk on OpenStreetMap I gave…
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Libtorrent adds support for the WebTorrent protocol
Feross Aboukhadijeh is a computer security researcher, teacher, web developer, designer, long distance runner, gamer, music lover, and builder of websites that (sometimes) go viral.
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I'm funding Ladybird because I can't fund Firefox
I’ve been meaning to write this one for a while, but the announcement of the Ladybird Browser Initiative makes now a particularly good time.
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The Drupal Crisis
There have been many pretty obvious signs in the recent past for what can only be considered as a critical milestone :
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Funding Open Source like public infrastructure
To protect the digital foundation of essential government services, governments should invest in Open Source as public infrastructure and shift from consumption to contribution.
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In Defense of OpenStreetMap's Data Model
Who's the customer, anyway?
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Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16
Some may find it weird, but I actually greatly enjoy using Enlightenment E16 as my window manager. It's themable, hackable, lightweight (24MB peak RSS!),...