Best of 2021

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2021. 313 posts.

Open Source
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My proposal for scaling open source: don’t

I've had a number of conversations about what "we" in the "free software community" "need" to do to combat the growth in proprietary, user-hostile and customer-hostile business models like cloud user-generated content hosts, social media platforms, hosted payment platforms, videoconferencing services etc. Questions…

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KDE Plasma Mobile 21.07

The Plasma Mobile team is happy to present the Plasma Mobile updates for July 2021. Read on to found out about all the new stuff included in this release: Shell First and foremost: Marco Martin made the shell more responsive by improving the performance of the top panel.

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wxWidgets 3.1.5

wxWidgets 3.1.5 release is now available on GitHub . You will find there archives with the library sources and documentation as well as binaries for the selected Windows compilers such as Microsoft Visual C++ , MinGW-w64 and TDM-GCC .