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The most popular blog posts about open source on Hacker News. 248 posts.

2026
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HardenedBSD Is Now Officially on Radicle

Over the past week, I have been working on bringing HardenedBSD's code repositories on Radicle (as most/all of you already know by now.) We are now at the point where Radicle is usable for us. There are still some sharp edges and some things to work out, but the core functionality is working.

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Sunsetting Jazzband

Jazzband is sunsetting. New signups are disabled. Project leads will be contacted before PyCon US 2026 to coordinate transfers. The wind-down plan has the timeline. The retrospective looks back at the past decade.

192

I changed my license

In the last 28 years of publishing software, I’ve had three distinct eras of software licensing. All of my recent stuff is available under the European Union Public License 1.2, and I thought to explain why.

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Picard 3.0

The Picard team is happy to announce the new major version 3.0 of MusicBrainz Picard, now available to download . MusicBrainz Picard is the official tag editor for the MusicBrainz database and helps you get your music collection sorted and cleaned up with data from MusicBrainz.

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Forking the Web

This document contains a set of informal notes on how to build an alternative specification to the Web, in such a way that hopefully prevents many of its drawbacks while still preserves many of the good points. This document is not an specification, and is therefore subject to change over time.

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Boot Naked Linux

When I was a kid , computers weren’t coddled and left running 24/7, when you were done with them you switched them off, and when you wanted them again you just switched them on and within a second or so they’d be loading whatever was in their disk drive.