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The most popular blog posts about open source on Hacker News. 143 posts.

2013
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Firefox 22 released

Check out "What’s New" and "Known Issues" for this version of Firefox below. As always, you’re encouraged to tell us what you think , or file a bug in Bugzilla .We'd also like extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to Firefox 22!

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An update on Truecrypt

Several people have been asking for an update on our public audit of the Truecrypt disk encryption software. I’m happy to say that the project is on track and proceeding apace. Here I wanted …

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PhpMyAdmin Turns 15

The phpMyAdmin project was “born” on the 9th of September, 1998, when Tobias Ratschiller released version 0.9.0. The project has grown to be one of the primary tools for administering MySQL and MySQL-like databases, with over 200,000 direct downloads per month (and countless more users who use a prepackaged…