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The Matrix Space Beta
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,681 posts.
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NetBSD fully reproducible builds
I have been working on and off for almost a year trying to get reproducible builds (the same source tree always builds an identical cdrom) on NetBSD. I did not think at the time it would take as long or be so difficult, so I did not keep a log of all the changes I needed to make. I was also not the only one working on…
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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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Let’s talk about open-source sustainability
Do you contribute to open source software (OSS)? We'd love to hear your perspective.
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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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Mozilla Awards $385k to Open Source Projects
For many years people with visual impairments and the legally blind have paid a steep price to access the Web on Windows-based computers. The market-leadin
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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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Stockfish 19
Stronger, smaller, and easier to run, thanks to an upgraded network architecture, universal binaries, and more!
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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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An introduction to IPFS
By Dr. Christian Lundkvist and John Lilic
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Thanks HN: Glowforge will open-source its firmware
Meet Glowforge, the 3D laser printer that makes magical things at the push of a button.
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GTK File Chooser Dialog gets a thumbnail view after 18 years
Updates on what happens across the GNOME project from week to week
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Firefox 30.0
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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Bringing Exchange Support to Thunderbird
Thunderbird will support Microsoft Exchange Web Services (EWS) natively, all written in Rust! Read about our Rusty adventures, the technical nature of the EWS
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Nix 2.0 Released
Nix reference manual version overview
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Vagrant 2.0
We're announcing HashiCorp Vagrant 2.0. Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing development environments. Vagrant 2.0 supports provisioning development environments on VirtualBox, VMware, Hyper-V, Docker, AWS, GCP, and more. It can virtualize Windows, macOS, and a dozen other new operating systems. Vagrant 2.0…
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KSQL: Open Source Streaming SQL for Apache Kafka
Introducing KSQL, a streaming SQL engine for Apache Kafka. KSQL provides a simple and completely interactive SQL interface for processing data in Kafka.
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Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7
New SBCL versions are usually released at the end of each month: check the Sourceforge File List to see the current version. The new features of all SBCL releases are listed below.
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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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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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0 A.D. Alpha 26: Zhuangzi
Wildfire Games, an international group of volunteer game developers, proudly announces the release of 0 A.D. Alpha 26: “Zhuangzi” (pronounced: /ˈʒwæŋˈziː/), the …
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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…