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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,681 posts.
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A community-led fork of Organic Maps
This is a copy of the update to the Open Letter to Organic Maps Shareholders from openletter.earth :
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Matrix 1.0 – Are We Ready Yet?
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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Mattermost 1.0 released – open-source Slack alternative
One secure place for everything critical to your team: messaging, file sharing, and collaboration — deployed on your terms.
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My simple GitHub project went viral
I made a simple project which got spread in various tech communities and social media. Github featured it in 'Trending repositories of day' section
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LibreSSL: More Than 30 Days Later
LibreSSL was officially announced to the world just about exactly five months ago. Bob spoke at BSDCan about the first 30 days. For those who weren't there, I'll quickly rehash some of that material. Also, it's always best to start at the beginning, but then I'll try to focus on some new material and updates.
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Tangled, a Git collaboration platform built on atproto
A Git collaboration platform, built on AT Protocol
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RethinkDB, SageMath, Andreessen-Horowitz, Basecamp and Open Source Software
RethinkDB and sustainable business models Three weeks ago, I spent the evening of Sept 12, 2016 with Daniel Mewes, who is the lead enginee...
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French Gendarmerie: "Open source desktop lowers TCO by 40%"
Using an open source desktop lowers the total cost of ownership by 40%, in savings on proprietary software licences and by reducing costs on IT management. Using Ubuntu Linux massively reduces the...
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pg_timeseries: Open-source time-series extension for PostgreSQL
Engineering deep-dives, product updates, and company news from Tembo — the platform for running coding agents across your stack.
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Releasing my book "Hacking the Xbox" as a free PDF in honor of Aaron Swartz
Dear Reader, No Starch Press and I have decided to release this free ebook version of Hacking the Xbox in honor of Aaron Swartz. As you read this book, I hope that you’ll be reminded of how important freedom is to the hacking community and that you’ll be inclined to support the causes that Aaron believed in. Download…
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Darktable 5.0.0
We’re proud to announce the new feature release of darktable, 5.0.0! The github release is here: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-5.0.0. To build from source, do not use the autogenerated tarball provided by GitHub on the release page, download our tar.xz file instead. If you’re just…
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Google Summer of Code in 2022 – No longer limited to students
Over the course of GSoC’s 17 years, open source has grown and evolved, and we’ve realized that the program needs to evolve as well. With that in mind,
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Bootstrap 3.3.0 and Bootstrap 4
Bootstrap 3.3.0 is here! This release has been all about bug fixes, accessibility improvements, and documentation updates. We've had over 700 commits from 28…
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Zulip Server 1.9: HipChat import and much more
We’re excited to announce the release of Zulip Server 1.9, containing hundreds of new features and bug fixes. Especially relevant for users migrating from the recently discontinued HipChat is our new HipChat data import tool. Zulip is the world’s most productive team chat software, an alternative to …
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How We Designed the Librem 5 Dev Kit with Free Software
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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Ten years of ClickHouse in open source
ClickHouse was released in open source on Jun 15 2016, ten years ago. Since then, it became the most popular open source analytical database with more than 2000 contributors.
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New analysis reveals significant ROI in open source technologies
Examples abound of leading tech companies that have adopted open source strategy and contribute actively to open source tools and communities. Google, for example, has been a long contributor to open source with projects – such as its popular mobile operating system, Android – and recently launched a directory of ...
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Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?
Wayland has been a broad misdirection and misallocation of time and developer resources at the expense of users. With more migration from other operating systems, the pressure to fix fundamental problems has become more prominent. After 17 years of development, now is a good time to reflect on some of the larger…
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I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself
After joining Mintlify (which acquired my previous company), I finally fixed a search bug that had bothered me for over a year as a user - the debounced search queries weren't being aborted, causing race conditions and poaor search quality. By adding an AbortController to ensure only the most recent search query…
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Firefox 27 Released
We'd also like extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to Firefox 27!
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Blender 4.5 LTS
With 2 years of updates, full Vulkan support, and quality-of-life improvements, Blender 4.5 LTS is every Blenderhead’s best friend.
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Cisco to release BSD-licensed H.264 stack
As I noted last year , one of the biggest challenges to open source software has been the patent status of video codecs. The most popular codec, H.264 , is patent-encumbered and licensed by MPEG LA , under terms that prevent distributing it with open source products including Firefox. Cisco has announced today that…
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Supporting the use of Rust in the Chromium project
Posted by Dana Jansens (she/her), Chrome Security Team We are pleased to announce that moving forward, the Chromium project is going to s...
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Debian and GNOME announce plans to migrate communities to GitLab
GitLab today announced it was abandoning the industry-standard Contributor License Agreement in favor of a Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) and license