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

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Open Source as We Know It Is Dead

I've been part of open source for most of my life. This year, the projects I love started closing their doors to outside contributors, and I don't blame them one bit, but it makes me sad. A personal look at how AI is changing open source as I've known it.

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Lanzaboote – NixOS Secure Boot

Secure Boot protects a system from an attacker that compromises the boot flow. For example, without Secure Boot it is easy to replace the code that reads your disk encryption password and store it somewhere where the attacker can pick it up later. So ideally you want Secure Boot to be enabled to limit the code that…