Unix: An Oral History(princeton.edu)

105 points by zdw 3 years ago | 20 comments

A Brutal Sex Trade Built for American Soldiers(nytimes.com)

20 points by karaokeyoga 3 years ago | 6 comments

LK-99: The live online race for a room-temperature superconductor(forums.spacebattles.com)

489 points by fofoz 3 years ago | 492 comments

A SpaceBattles forum thread discussing claims of the LK-99 room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductor and the online efforts to replicate it.

Discussing CNET’s content-pruning to improve SEO ranking(tedium.co)

128 points by marban 3 years ago | 61 comments

The Eleuther AI Mafia(latent.space)

70 points by swyx 3 years ago | 38 comments

Insurance companies fill their networks with ‘ghost’ therapists(seattletimes.com)

81 points by apwheele 3 years ago | 70 comments

Open Source is one person(opensourcesecurity.io)

325 points by LawnGnome 1 year ago | 132 comments

Blog post by Josh Bressers on Open Source Security arguing that many open source projects are maintained by a single person.

European Commission issues call for evidence on open source(lwn.net)

366 points by pabs3 9 months ago | 285 comments

LWN brief reporting that the European Commission opened a call for evidence on open source to shape its European Open Digital Ecosystem Strategy, with feedback due February 3, 2026.

We all depend on open source. We will defend it together(akrites.org)

421 points by dhruv3006 4 months ago | 203 comments

An open letter announcing Akrites, a Linux Foundation project coordinating efforts to remediate vulnerabilities in widely used open source software.

A new model for open source: closed to pull requests, open to remix(ghuntley.com)

9 points by ghuntley 11 days ago | 5 comments

Geoffrey Huntley blog post proposing an open source model where projects reject pull requests but invite others to fork and remix the code.

Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Public Internet(nlnet.nl)

422 points by edent 1 year ago | 192 comments

NLnet Foundation announcement that 42 free and open source projects were selected for funding in the October call of the NGI Zero Commons Fund.

OpenTF is now OpenTofu(github.com)

352 points by zoidb 3 years ago | 197 comments

GitHub page for the OpenTofu organization, the open source Terraform fork formerly called OpenTF, which urges HashiCorp to return Terraform to an open license.