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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,682 posts.
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The CPAN Pull Request Challenge
If you join the CPAN pull request challenge, then at the start of each month in 2015 you'll be emailed a (somewhat) randomly selected CPAN distribution. You'll have one month to submit at least one pull request. You don't have to be an experienced Perl programmer, CPAN author, or githubber. The goal is to help others…
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What OpenStreetMap can be
Over the past two years, the biggest buzz among the geo chatterati has been Justin O’Beirne’s meticulously argued (albeit bizarrely formatted) feature-by-feature comparisons of Google and Apple Maps: their design choices, their data, their production processes.
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Handshake Donates $300k to Debian
[16 Nov 2019] Updated Debian 10: 10.2 released [08 Sep 2019] Updated Debian 9: 9.11 released [07 Sep 2019] Updated Debian 10: 10.1 released [07 Sep 2019] Updated Debian 9: 9.10 released [27 Jul 2019] DebConf19 closes in Curitiba and DebConf20 dates announced [07 Jul 2019] Debian Edu / Skolelinux Buster — a complete…
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Dusting off Dreamcast Linux
Yes, here at Old VCR we live in the past, when RISC Unix workstations still ruled the earth like large boxy tentaculous Cthulhus. Oh, sure, ...
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PostgreSQL 9.3 Beta 1 Released
The first beta release of PostgreSQL 9.3, the latest version of the world's best open source database, is now available. …
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GIMP 2.9.6 Released
After more than a year of hard work we are excited to release GIMP 2.9.6 featuring many improvements, some new features, translation updates for 23 languages, and 204 bug fixes.
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Aya: An open LLM by 3k independent researchers across the globe
Cohere's research lab, Cohere Labs, released the Aya model, a state-of-the-art, open source, massively multilingual, research LLM covering 101 languages – including more than 50 previously underserved languages.
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Zulip 7.0: Threaded open-source team chat
We’re excited to announce the release of Zulip Server 7.0, containing hundreds of new features and bug fixes! Zulip is an open-source team chat application designed to help people collaborate to solve any challenge. With conversations organized by topic, Zulip is ideal for both live and asynchronous …
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Open Source Madness
The Yorba Foundation, a non-profit group that produces open source Linux desktop software, reported last week that it was denied tax-exempt 501(c)(3) status by the IRS. The group had waited nearly five years for a decision. The IRS stated that, because the software Yorba develops can be used...
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Cartographer – A real-time simultaneous localization and mapping library
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
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NetBSD Network Security Audit
Over the last five months, hundreds of patches were committed to the source tree as a result of this work. Dozens of bugs were fixed, among which a good number of actual, remotely-triggerable vulnerabilities.
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Xfce 4.14 released
Why is the release manager late to the party with his blog post? The explanation is simple: We prioritized sticking to the schedule and getting our releases out to everyone as planned, as our codebase was ready. What was not (entirely) ready was some parts of the website, which were brought up-to-date over the course…
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Veloren, an open source game, release 0.16
Veloren 0.16 Release
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The License Zero Manifesto
sustainable software in the open
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Org-mode 9.4 is out. Can you help?
This page does not exist (anymore). Back to home
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GitLab acquires Gitorious
GitLab and Gitorious announce today they are joining forces to strengthen the development of GitLab’s open source Git management application.
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Gitlab 13.1
GitLab release announcements and feature highlights.
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Proxmox Virtual Environment 9.0 with Debian 13 released
Latest announcements for Proxmox.
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The Cathedral, the Bazaar, and the Winchester Mystery House
The internet made coordination cheap and gave us the Bazaar. Coding agents make code cheap and are giving us sprawling, idiosyncratic software.
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MilkyTracker 1.04
Today is a special day, because we’re announcing the latest release of MilkyTracker - version 1.04.
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Microsoft’s visual data explorer SandDance open sourced
SandDance, the beloved data visualization tool from Microsoft Research, has been re-released as an open source project on GitHub.