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The most popular blog posts about open source on Hacker News. 161 posts.

2026
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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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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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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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Dillo Browser Release 3.3.0

The Dillo 3.3.0 release contains several new features, configuration options and bug fixes. It is the first release to provide experimental support for FLTK 1.4 (see the details below).

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Clarification on the Notepad++ Trademark Issue

The trademark infringement issue has now been resolved. The author of the website and project in question has removed all uses of the Notepad++ trademark from his product, website, and related materials. The unauthorized references have been taken down, and the trademark infringement is no longer ongoing.

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Briar is in maintenance mode

This is a quick update about the status of Briar. Short version: the project is still active but we’re only making essential security updates and bugfixes for now. Long version: For several years we’ve been trying to find solutions to some of the longstanding issues with Briar, such as high battery usage and…