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This Month in Ladybird February 2025
Block rendering until CSS is ready, OpenSSL and curl adoption continues, Firefox DevTools protocol support lands, and aarch64 Linux joins CI.
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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Mullvad Privacy Companion is now open source
Mullvad Privacy Companion, a free Firefox extension helping to improve your online privacy – is now open source.
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Movie Maker mode in Godot 4.0
With the addition of non-real-time video recording, Godot opens itself to new use cases such as architecture visualization and cutscene rendering.
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Keeping Open Source Open – Open Distro for Elasticsearch
中文版 – At AWS, we focus on solving problems for customers. Over the years, customer usage and dependencies on open source technologies have been steadily increasing; this is why we’ve long been committed to open source, and our pace of contributions to open source projects – both our own and others’ – continues to…
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Evil, or why Douglas Crockford is harmful to Free Software
Yesterday I received a new serious bug report against Mono in Debian. For those not in the know, “serious” severity is release critical, and can trigger removal of a package from the di…
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The GitHub Arctic Code Vault
Our mission is to preserve open source software for future generations by storing your code in an archive built to last a thousand years.
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Firefox 37 Release Notes
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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MAME 0.260
Some long-anticipated updates landed in October, making MAME 0.260 a very exciting release! Firstly, there are some general updates to MAME itself. After a few false starts, MAME now supports bgfx video output with Wayland on Linux. As requested by users, you can finally use delta CHD files for clone systems and…
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Opening the code of our X-Pack features
We are doubling down on open and moving our closed source X-Pack code into our public GitHub repos.
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Debian 7.3 is out
Debian 13.7 was released on September 12th, 2026 . Debian 13.0 was initially released on August 9th, 2025. The release included many major changes, described in our press release and the Release Notes .
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Debian Riscv64 port in mid 2019
It's been a while since last post (Talk about the Debian GNU/Linux riscv64 port at RISC-V workshop), and sometimes things look very quiet from outside even if the people on the backstage never stop working. So this is an update on the status of this port before the release of buster, which should happen in a few weeks…
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Sunsetting Jazzband
Jazzband is sunsetting. New signups are disabled. Project leads will be contacted before PyCon US 2026 to coordinate transfers. The wind-down plan has the timeline. The retrospective looks back at the past decade.
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Thousands of Debian packages updated from their upstream Git repository
The Debian Janitor is an automated system that commits fixes for (minor) issues in Debian packages that can be fixed by software. It gradually started proposing merges in early December. The first set of changes sent out ran lintian-brush on sid packages maintained in Git. This post is part of a series about the…
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From Google to the world: the Kubernetes origin story
Google Cloud is the birthplace of Kubernetes—originally developed at Google and released as open source in 2014. Learn the Kubernetes origin story.
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DragonFly BSD 5.2
DragonFly version 5.2 brings Meltdown/Spectre mitigation, significant improvements to HAMMER2, ipfw, and graphics acceleration. 5.2.1 includes a fix for CVE-2018-8897 , and 5.2.2 includes a fix for the LazyFP bug, CVE-2018-3665 .
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I found 39 Algolia admin keys exposed across open source documentation sites
A systematic audit of Algolia DocSearch found 39 admin API keys exposed across projects like Home Assistant, KEDA, and vcluster.
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OpenWrt Joins Software Freedom Conservancy
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Fork Freshness: Project lifespans in the Ruby ecosystem
I've built an app called Fork Freshness . In the process of building that app, I've learned some interesting things about how open source projects evolve over time.
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HyperRogue, a open-source non-Euclidean roguelike: new weapons
HyperRogue version 13.0 is released on Steam and itch.io ! Again, it was quite a long time since the last major update (12.0, from 2021)....
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The Free Software Foundation Europe deleted its account on X
The Free Software Foundation Europe deleted its account on X. The platform never aligned with our values and no longer serves as a space for communication....
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Apache Struts Statement on Equifax Security Breach
UPDATE: MEDIA ALERT: The Apache Software Foundation Confirms Equifax Data Breach Due to Failure to Install Patches Provided for Apache® Struts™ Exploit The Apache Struts Project Management Committee (PMC) would like to comment on the Equifax security breach, its relation to the Apache Struts Web Framework and…
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The vgo proposal is accepted. Now what?
Last week, the proposal review committee accepted the “vgo approach” elaborated on this blog in February and then summarized as proposal #24301 . There has been some confusion about exactly what that means and what happens next.
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PipeWire: Bluetooth Support Status Update
Over the last two years, Bluetooth® audio support has steadily grown in PipeWire. Here's a look at where things stand.
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Sovereign Tech Fund to Invest €686k in FreeBSD Infrastructure Modernization
Investment to accelerate zero trust builds, SBOM, security tooling, and developer experience Boulder, CO - August 26, 2024—The FreeBSD Foundation, dedicated to advancing the open source FreeBSD operating system and supporting the community, announced that Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) has agreed to invest…
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KDE makes Qt
Recently I was trying some statistics on the qtbase-module (where QtCore, QtGui, QtWidgets and so on lives) and was wondering who made them. Not based on their current paid affilation, like Thiago’s graphs , but if each commit was made by a person coming from KDE.