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FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap
FOSDEM 2026 in Brussels highlights open source, European digital sovereignty, BSD, Linux, community innovation, and free software.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 248 posts.
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Why I forked httpx
I forked the python library httpx to httpxyz after over a year without a release of this popular package
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Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack
Mini Shai-Hulud malware was injected into keyv and eight related npm packages on August 4, 2026 after an attacker compromised the maintainer's GitHub account
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Gleam Is Now on Tangled
⭐️ A friendly language for building type-safe, scalable systems!
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GitHub and the crime against software
An investigation into collapse of Github and how the decay of our tech infrastructure is a crime against software. Detailed comparisons of Github, Gitlab, Codeberg, and more from a distributed systems and software performance expert.
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I don't want your PRs anymore
Notes by `dpc`
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KDE at 30
KDE is an open community of friendly people who want to create a world in which everyone has control over their digital life and enjoys freedom and privacy.
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Godot 4.6 Release: It's all about your flow
With the stability gained over the past five Godot 4 releases, it's time for polish and quality-of-life improvements for everyday development.
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Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release
When we first announced the transition to Plasma Wayland, one of Martin's slides from stated, "It's done when it's done!"
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Academics have a duty to defend open knowledge systems like Wikipedia
Wikipedia faces existential challenges from generative AI companies. Do researchers and teachers in higher education have an ethical duty to defend it?
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My first patch to the Linux kernel
How an undefined behavior in C made me pull my hair out for days but became my first patch to the Linux kernel!
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Why Drawing Tablet Brands Won't Collaborate on Linux Floss Drivers
As you probably already know, I regularly get in contact with drawing tablet brands for reviews on my Youtube channel . I usually agree to do detailed video test of their models (see my hardware tag) but only at two condition: test the tablet on GNU/Linux, and only use Free/Libre and Open Source software for the test…
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OpenTTD 16.0-Beta1
We’ve been working on some exciting new features for OpenTTD 16, and they need testing! The first beta release is now available, and we’ve opened the competition to create the title game for the next release.
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Step 3.5 Flash – Open-source foundation model, supports deep reasoning at speed
Scores represent the mean of the following eight benchmarks listed below, excluding xbench-DeepSearch. The Step 3.5 Flash score is derived under standard settings (i.e., $w/o$ Parallel Thinking).
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Apple ignores DMA interoperability requests and contradicts own documentation
A new FSFE report exposes how 56 interoperability requests under the Digital Markets Act have produced no concrete solutions by Apple, and how their declin...
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A big win for Android interoperability
Google gatekept key Android features, and the European Commission asked what we thought about it. Now Alphabet must open 11 Android features to all.
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Discourse Is Not Going Closed Source
Cal.com just closed their source code, arguing AI has made open source too dangerous. After 13 years of building Discourse in public, we're staying open. Here's why.
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Print with dozens of colors: Our new open-source ColorMix for PrusaSlicer
For the past few months, the 3D printing community has been poking at a very interesting question: what if a multi-material printer were not limited to the colors physically loaded on it? And we must say it right now: This is a...
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Rune is now open source
Rune is now open source under the GPLv3. A native, keyboard-driven IDE written primarily in Go is ready for Go developers to inspect, change, and help build.
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Dumb ways for an open source project to die
How your dependencies became Bernies
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Bluesky Protocol Services
A new home for the infrastructure Bluesky runs on the open network — including Jetstream v2 with network replay, a new Jetstream SDK, and a lex-based TypeScript SDK
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State of the Fin 2026-01-06
Happy New Year and welcome to the State of the Fin!
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Jellyfin LLM/"AI" Development Policy
The rise of LLMs as a useful development tool over the last year or so has been significant. The power and flexibility of tools like Claude Code and ChatGPT have given a lot of functionality both to experienced developers and new developers alike. But there are trade-offs.
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Lean now ships with verified kernels
Leonardo de Moura — Creator of Lean and Z3
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Going Full Time on Open Source
Why I left Figma to work full-time on open source, and how I plan to make the work sustainable.
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Bluesky Trademarks ATProto
Bluesky now owns the trademark for AT Protocol to shield the ecosystem and make sure it can be used as widely as possible.