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The most popular blog posts about open source on Hacker News. 313 posts.

2021
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My Resignation from Freenode

As it is now known, the freenode IRC network has been taken over by a Trumpian wannabe korean royalty bitcoins millionaire. To make a long story short, the former freenode head of staff secretly "sold" the network to this person even if it was not hers to sell, and our lawyers have advised us that there is not much…

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Librem 5 Evergreen vs. PinePhone (Part 2)

It’s been about half a year since I wrote my original post comparing the Librem 5 and Pinephone. The original post saw some controversy as well as quite a bit of attention on Hacker News . Surprisingly, for a market dominated by new tech every year, there remains quite a bit of interest in these two devices.

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WebOS OSE 2.10

We’re pleased to announce the release of webOS Open Source Edition (OSE) 2.10.0. The highlights of this release are as follows: Storage access framework Enabling cookie encryption of Blink Peripheral Manager service ACG enhancements For more details on this release, see the release notes. Storage Access framework…

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Apache Arrow 4.0

The Apache Arrow team is pleased to announce the 4.0.0 release. This covers 3 months of development work and includes 711 resolved issues from 114 distinct contributors. See the Install Page to learn how to get the libraries for your platform. The release notes below are not exhaustive and only expose selected…

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OpenSearch 1.0

Today is a really good day for the OpenSearch project. Since its start, the goal has been to quickly produce a version of OpenSearch that’s ready to use in production...