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The most popular blog posts about open source on Hacker News. 165 posts.

2015
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Mercurial: Onward and upward

Automating releases, semantic version bumps, and API calls often involves configuring branch permissions and storing long-lived credentials in pipeline variables. Managing credential rotation adds an ongoing maintenance burden. Today, we’re introducing granular step-level permissions and container tokens in Bitbucket…

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Walmart Labs: Why we run an open source program

Over the coming weeks, we are publishing a series of blog posts from TODO Group members, explaining why each company has decided to run programs to publish, use, and improve open source software - and the benefits that result. First up, Dion Almaer (@dalmaer) with Walmart Labs’ perspective. Why would a company spend…

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Signify: Securing OpenBSD from Us to You

I'm going to talk today about signify, a tool I wrote for the OpenBSD project that cryptographically signs and verifies. This allows us to ensure that the releases we ship arrive on your computer in their original, intended form, without tampering.

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Vagrant 1.8 released

Today we announce the release of Vagrant 1.8. Vagrant is a tool for building and managing development environments. Vagrant 1.8 introduces a number of major features and hundreds of improvements and bug fixes. The major features are outlined below and the full list of improvements can be found in the official…

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Diaspora 0.5 released

After a long wait we are really happy to announce that a new major version of diaspora*, v0.5.0.0, has been released today! This is the biggest release the community has ever done, and includes many of the large features and improvements you have been waiting for.