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Gimp is 25 years old today
Exactly 25 years ago, Peter Mattis wrote a message to several newsgroups announcing a new image editor called GIMP.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,808 posts.
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Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)
In the US, you can get a domain name like `somename.city.state.us` for free. If your town has its own domain, you can get nameservers from Amazon Lightsail, send the *Interim .US Domain Template* to the delegated manager for your locality, then point DNS entries at your webhost.
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From hacker to hospice in seven weeks
If you would like to help Steven, please donate to his family. He will not live to see his child born. Any amount is greatly appreciated.
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Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight
By enabling access to space, we contribute to humanity’s progress and our planet’s sustainable technological and economic development. Select your journey to orbit and launch with us.
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The First Browser Dedicated to Developers Is Coming
At Mozilla we know that developers are the cornerstone of the Web, that’s why we actively push standards and continue to build great tools to make it eas
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Next.js – A small framework for server-rendered universal JavaScript apps
We're very proud to open-source Next.js, a small framework for server-rendered universal JavaScript webapps.
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Thomas E. Kurtz has died
CHM remembers the remarkable career and contributions of 2023 Fellow Thomas E. Kurtz, who passed away on November 12, 2024.
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Brave, the false sensation of privacy
ebin.city is a short 4-character .city domain available for buy. Listed at $100 — secure it before someone else does.
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75% of the time we spend with our kids in our lifetime will be spent by age 12
75% of the time we spend with our kids in our lifetime will be spent by age 12.
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I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon
Reflections on my time leading Mastodon and what's to come next.
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Private Cloud Compute: A new frontier for AI privacy in the cloud
Secure and private AI processing in the cloud poses a formidable new challenge. To support advanced features of Apple Intelligence with larger foundation models, we created Private Cloud Compute (PCC), a groundbreaking cloud intelligence system designed specifically for private AI processing. Built with custom Apple…
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A single line of code made a 24-core server slower than a laptop
Imagine you wrote a program for a pleasingly parallel problem, where each thread does its own independent piece of work, and the threads don’t need to coordi...
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ReactOS releases 0.4.8 with experimental Vista/7/10 software compatibility
ReactOS is a free, opensource reimplementation of windows
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Nvidia RTX Spark encrypted firmware slows inference speed to 35% on Linux
A hands-on look at dual-booting Linux on the Nvidia RTX Spark laptop, the GPU clock throttling bug found, and why WSL still wins.
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Open-sourcing Sorbet: a fast, powerful type checker for Ruby
We're excited to announce that Sorbet is now [open source] and you can try it today. Sorbet is a fast, powerful type checker designed for Ruby. It scales to codebases with millions of lines of code and can be adopted incrementally.
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The brand new Thunderbird logo
We asked Jon Hicks, creator of the original Firefox and Thunderbird logos, to re-imagine his iconic design in light of our exciting future.
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1.5 TB of VRAM on Mac Studio – RDMA over Thunderbolt 5
Apple gave me access to this Mac Studio cluster to test RDMA over Thunderbolt, a new feature in macOS 26.2. The easiest way to test it is with Exo 1.0, an open source private AI clustering tool. RDMA lets the Macs all act like they have one giant pool of RAM, which speeds up things like massive AI models. The stack of…
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Zulip 4.0: Threaded open source team chat
We’re excited to announce the release of Zulip Server 4.0, containing hundreds of new features and bug fixes! Zulip is an open-source team collaboration tool with unique topic-based threading that combines the best of email and chat to make remote work productive and delightful. Fortune 500 companies, …
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Proof of concept: end-to-end encryption in Jitsi Meet
Check out our progress in end-to-end encryption calls in Jitsi. Give us your crypto knowledge feedback with the code and learn how to demo it here.
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How some good corporate engineering blogs are written
I've been comparing notes with people who run corporate engineering blogs and one thing that I think is curious is that it's pretty common for my personal blog to get more traffic than the entire corp eng blog for a company with a nine to ten figure valuation and it's not uncommon for my blog to get an order of…
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Why did I spend 1.5 months creating a Gameboy emulator? (2017)
For me, the most favorite type of a computer program is an emulator. Being able to run code from a completely different hardware architecture always seemed like a magic. The old computers are great on their own, so this kind of connection between historic machines and the modern computing environment feels almost like…
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Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook
Facebook suspended President Trump following the mob attack on Congress. But the platform allowed organizing for the pro-Trump rally, as well as the spread of conspiracy theories and militant extremism that drove the rioters.
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The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok
Bad software is a choice you make