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Re:Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet’s revenue on Thursday October 29, 2026 @02:15PM (#50293519)
Kagi is great!
Re:A skeptic's first contact with Kubernetes (2024) on Saturday October 17, 2026 @04:14PM (#50134693)
Using literally anything other than helm will make your life 100x better with k8s.
Re:Last rites for Gentoo's Chromium package on Friday October 16, 2026 @04:27AM (#50115685)
> Measures need to be taken by somebody qualified that this doesn't keep happening in packages as important as these.

To the single guy maintaining it, and no offer of help. Crazy entitlement.

Where do you even get a $5 VPS nowadays?!
Re:F-Droid 2.0: A New Chapter for Android Freedom on Thursday September 24, 2026 @01:00PM (#49833560)
Urgh such a shame to be written by LLM
It's honestly impressive to lose 67 percent by betting on AI in this market. How did he even manage that. Wunderkind indeed.
Re:Jellyfin 12.0 on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @02:45AM (#49606388)
Exciting times, they really messed up with 10.11.x shipped half baked DB refactoring
Re:Why MySpace fans want it back as relaunch hinted on Sunday August 09, 2026 @10:05AM (#49231548)
And the images too! I've been trying to fill in images for artists big in that time period and it's just sad.
Re:Why MySpace fans want it back as relaunch hinted on Sunday August 09, 2026 @10:03AM (#49231531)
The fact MySpace "accidentally" deleted all their pictures a few years ago is such a loss to internet history. Try looking for images for any music artist that was around during peak MySpace but not now.
Re:Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @08:25AM (#48991384)
Sure its a catalog of your local media served via an API, with metadata enrichment, built in transcoding (hardware support too) and multiple user support (watch history, recommendations etc).

Its not just a web app, I would say most dont use the web app directly, instead they provide clients (Android/iOS/Roku/AndroidTV/WebOS/Tizen) that are in official app stores. This is the big thing for me, being able to just install the client on your TV and not worry about it is great.

Often the clients are just wrappers of the web client with native integrations, but they work well.

Plus there are loads of 3rd party plugins to extend it, and alternate clients, Im a fan of https://github.com/jeffvli/feishin for music duties personally.

Re:Twenty One Zero-Days in FFmpeg on Saturday June 13, 2026 @03:00AM (#48514254)
I wouldn't go so far as efforts, so much as legally required publication of 3rd party code they use, or open wrappers to their proprietary libraries
Re:Last.fm is now independent on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @01:26PM (#48297493)
I've moved over to ListenBrainz, it's quite nice and I like that the data is open and not trying to be monitized
Re:OpenWarp on Friday May 01, 2026 @01:40PM (#47977668)
Ive noticed every vibecoded website looks the same, or similar to this one.

Why is it? Does this style have a name?

This is interesting to see and shows the beauty of open source: if you want GTK2 to be alive, you can put in the effort to revive it.

This being Devuan it is driven by those pesky Debian devs removing GTK2

> Debian is not the only distro doing this. A few months ago, Arch Linux

> removed GTK 2 from its official (non-AUR) repositories [1]. RHEL 10 was

> released earlier in 2025 without GTK 2.

>

> gtk3 was released 15 years ago. Debian has had the stable 3.24 series

> for more than 7 years.

The announcement[0] has a quite long list of packages still using it.

0. https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2026/01/msg00090.html

Re:Updating Gun Rocket through 10 years of Unity Engine on Sunday April 19, 2026 @02:48AM (#47822290)
Was so refreshing to read some human generated content
Re:The coming PLG to SLG apocalypse on Monday March 30, 2026 @11:11AM (#47575330)
Hard to tell if this is so hard to read because it is LLM generated, or because its is hollow "thought leadership" with no insight.

Unsure if there is no astroturfing rule for HN, but this is pretty blatant.

Re:Today's Layoffs on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @11:11AM (#47503837)
Ouch, that is huge. I assumed this was more like 10%
Re:Bringing Chrome to ARM64 Linux Devices on Friday March 13, 2026 @10:18AM (#47364820)
Most interesting here is the possibility of Arm64 Widewine libraries appearing?
Re:I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard on Monday February 23, 2026 @02:31AM (#47119198)
I wish they would hurry up and ship my TRMNL X please
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (February 2026) on Monday February 09, 2026 @05:02AM (#46943552)
Sounds fun!

Another option out there is "UUID47" which uses siphash[0]

0. https://github.com/stateless-me/uuidv47

Re:Oracle to raise $50B as AI debt piles up on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @05:31AM (#46884064)
Oracle were 40B in profit in 2024.

Now they are out raising debt (again) and equity too, to fund DCs and hardware with no proven return.

I cannot comprehend it.

Re:Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @01:52PM (#46799891)
Play premier instead! I suck and have hugh trust so I never see any cheaters.
What is happening USA. Please stop.

"It Hurt Itself in Its Confusion!"

Re:Gentoo Linux 2025 Review on Sunday January 11, 2026 @01:53PM (#46578535)
I saw a comment in a "I moved from Windows to Linux" thread implying Windows has more configuration potential than Linux. I wonder what that commenter would make of Gentoo.

I wish I had more time I could dedicate to maintaining my system, I'm marooned on Arch due to lack of time, such a shame.

Wait Corey Quinn is on El Reg now? That's awesome
Re:I made a tool to remove ChatGPT watermarks on Friday December 26, 2025 @01:59PM (#46395057)
Vibe coding the tool to remove the vibes from text is kind of beautiful really
ProtonVPN free tier is great
Re:Helldivers 2 devs slash install size from 154GB to 23GB on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @11:30AM (#46136468)
On size limited platforms like steam deck and friends this is a huge W
Re:KDE Plasma 6.8 Set to Drop X11 Support Completely on Monday December 01, 2025 @09:56AM (#46108198)
Remember this not a billion dollar company we are talking about here, this is volunteer OSS project. If no one wants to maintain the X11 support then that's up to them.

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