Topics /

Open Source

The most popular blog posts about open source on Hacker News. 3,679 posts.

Any year
1444

StableStudio, an open-source release of DreamStudio

Stability AI releases StableStudio, an open-source text-to-image consumer application that emphasizes the company's commitment to advancing open-source development within the AI ecosystem. With StableStudio, users can help shape the future of generative AI through community-driven development and lo

1447

The State of Rust on Haiku

The Rust programming language belongs to the category of modern programming languages that aim to provide a reliable and safe alternative to C and C++. In the past few years, few people have been working on getting the compiler, and the other build …

1450

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.

1451

PeerTube 6.3

This is the last minor release before v7, but it's packed with interesting new features! Let's have a look :) Separate audio and video streams for mor...

1459

Open source is coming to financial services

Open source will catalyze the financial services industry’s biggest evolution to date. This evolution will shift the power in this $25 trillion industry from business executives to developers, not just in fintech companies, but in centuries-old incumbents, as well. Until very recently, financial services were…

1460

Affordable Wheel Based Refreshable Braille Display

On HN [1] I came into contact with Mahmoud Al-Qudsi ( mqudsi@neosmart.net ) , who mentioned that he'd been working off-and-on on a braille reader that is both affordable and easy to manufacture. He sent me a some files and pointed to a patent [2] that he took out on a device that uses octagonal wheels with codes on…

1465

Opus 1.3 Released

Ever since version 1.1, Opus has been able to automatically detect whether its input is speech or music, and choose the optimal encoding mode accordingly. The original speech/music detector was based on a simple (non-recurrent) neural network, followed by an HMM-based layer to combine the neural network results over…