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The most popular blog posts about open source on Hacker News. 191 posts.

2016
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Vue in 2016

It’s already end of 2016! During the past 12 months, Vue’s growth has been consistently exceeding my expectations — the project has grown…

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Haiku booting in UEFI mode

As some may have noticed, my UEFI branch got merged in November, purely by accident too! However, until now, we still haven't been able to boot to the desktop. Whilst still in development, the addition of a simple framebuffer driver and a crucial fix …

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Dolphin 5.0 Release

Dolphin 5.0 Release Video The long awaited Dolphin 5.0 release is finally here! After nearly a year of bug-hunting and handling the release process, everything has come together for our biggest release yet! The three previous releases followed a very distinct pattern: sacrifice performance, hacks, and features in…

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VeraCrypt to be audited

OSTIF is proud to announce that we have come to an agreement to fully fund an audit of VeraCrypt. Using funds that were donated by DuckDuckGo and VikingVPN , we plan to hire QuarksLab to go over the code and search for vulnerabilities and backdoors.

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Darktable 2.2.0 released

we’re proud to finally announce the new feature release of darktable, 2.2.0! the github release is here: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-2.2.0. as always, please don’t use the autogenerated tarball provided by github, but only our tar.xz. the sha256 checksum is…