Best of 2017

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2017. 213 posts.

Open Source
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Ardour 5.9 released

Ardour 5.9 is now available, representing several months of development that spans some new features and many improvements and fixes. Among other things, some significant optimizations were made to redraw performance on OS X/macOS that may be apparent if you are using Ardour on that platform. There were further…

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Porting Swift to Haiku

Hello everyone! This report covers the span of the last two weeks of my porting efforts to get swift running on Haiku. I started debugging the runtime library ’libswiftCore’ on both Haiku and Linux and focused my attention specifically to …

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Init Freedom

Free GNU+Linux base OS. Devuan is a fork of Debian without systemd. Devuan provides a safe upgrade path from Debian, to ensure the right to Init Freedom and avoid entanglement.