Best of 2023

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2023. 219 posts.

Open Source
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AlmaLinux – Our Value Is Our Values

We posted a follow-up update on July 13, which you can read here: The Future of AlmaLinux is Bright As we discussed last week, on June 21 Red Hat announced that RHEL source code will only be available via the Red Hat Customer Portal. What is the status of security updates?Prior to Red Hat’s policy change, when RHEL…

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Gitea 1.19

We are proud to present the release of Gitea version 1.19.0. We highly encourage users to update to this version for many new features and other improvements. We have merged 544 https://github.com/go gitea/gitea/pulls?q=is%3Apr+milestone%3A1.19.0+is%3Amerged pull requests to rele

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MAME 0.260

Some long-anticipated updates landed in October, making MAME 0.260 a very exciting release! Firstly, there are some general updates to MAME itself. After a few false starts, MAME now supports bgfx video output with Wayland on Linux. As requested by users, you can finally use delta CHD files for clone systems and…

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GCC 13 and the State of Gccrs

The first official GCC 13 release is just around the corner, and you may be a bit surprised to find out that gccrs will not be included in it. The aim of this blogpost is to go into a little bit more detail as to why this was done and how you can still try out our compiler if you’d like to.