Leaked Wipeout source code leads to near-total rewrite and remaster(arstechnica.com)

189 points by isaacfrond 3 years ago | 57 comments

GitHub besieged by malicious repositories in ongoing attack(arstechnica.com)

3 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 0 comments

NPM flooded with malicious packages downloaded more than 86k times(arstechnica.com)

349 points by jnord 1 year ago | 248 comments

Ars Technica article on the PhantomRaven campaign, in which malicious NPM packages that fetch dependencies from untrusted sites were downloaded over 86,000 times.

Redis' license change and forking are a mess that everybody can feel bad about(arstechnica.com)

46 points by pjmlp 2 years ago | 38 comments

After ChatGPT disruption, Stack Overflow lays off 28 percent of staff(arstechnica.com)

22 points by adamwintle 3 years ago | 11 comments

Microsoft will finally kill obsolete cipher that has wreaked decades of havoc(arstechnica.com)

126 points by signa11 10 months ago | 79 comments

Winamp Legacy player source code(github.com)

643 points by gjvc 2 years ago | 291 comments

GitHub repository from WinampDesktop containing the source code of the Winamp legacy desktop media player, released for community contributions.

Investigating corrupt Winamp skins(jordaneldredge.com)

573 points by treve 2 years ago | 136 comments

Jordan Eldredge's blog post about investigating corrupted Winamp skins from the Winamp Skin Museum and the hidden files, passwords, and secrets found inside them.

Show HN: Winamp and other media players, rebuilt for the web with Web Components(player.style)

368 points by Heff 2 years ago | 62 comments

Player.style by Mux is a gallery of free, open-source video and audio player themes built with Media Chrome web components for any web player or framework.

Wasm3 entering a minimal maintenance phase(github.com)

452 points by padolsey 2 years ago | 97 comments

GitHub repository for Wasm3, a fast WebAssembly interpreter and portable WASM runtime, here noted as entering a minimal maintenance phase.

The GitHub wiki is an anti-pattern (2022)(michaelheap.com)

151 points by ibobev 1 month ago | 88 comments

A 2022 blog post by Michael Heap arguing that using the GitHub wiki for project documentation is an anti-pattern compared to a docs folder in the repo.

We used an AI agent to fix an open-source bug. Someone asked to ban us(github.com)

9 points by maxcr 1 month ago | 2 comments

A GitHub pull request to the VisiData project submitted using an AI agent to fix a bug, which drew a request to ban the contributors.