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Re:Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes on Sunday November 01, 2026 @08:35AM (#50325554)
If you want to visit Norway come to the west coast if you want fjords and scenery - not the capital in the east.
Re:Ask HN: How do you manage skills files? on Monday September 07, 2026 @01:13AM (#49594132)
For the my branch of the Norwegian Government we have a public skill registry and a tool to sync them locally according to what «profile» you select, https://ki-utvikling.nav.no/verktoy

Source at navikt/copilot

Re:The privacy problems hidden in your period tracker on Thursday July 16, 2026 @04:53PM (#48940095)
Apple Health was not among the reviewed?
Re:Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development on Monday June 29, 2026 @03:47PM (#48724198)
We have have had the same experience (qwen3.6 rocks) when we are evaluating local models for our developers in the Norwegian Government https://github.com/navikt/mlx-workspace
Serve and protect.. the rich and powerful.
Chromium via Playwright landed today https://github.com/navikt/cplt/pull/44 (I am the maintainer of cplt)
Freedom is literally in their name. Can it be more core than that?
Changes the defaults. Does not care to provide a pull request description. Talk about hubris.
Re:Soft launch of open-source code platform for government on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @06:28AM (#47946380)
Norwegian Government has a couple of thousand open repos for their code https://norwegian-public-organizations.vercel.app/

Most notably the Labor and Welfare Administration with 3000+ open repos.

The Labor and Welfare Administration (Nav) just crossed the 3000 mark for public repos on their GitHub account https://github.com/navikt
Re:Brunost: The Nynorsk Programming Language on Saturday April 18, 2026 @04:35AM (#47814253)
Most of the source code for the Norwegian welfare system is published openly on https://github.com/navikt (4K repos)
Re:Brunost: The Nynorsk Programming Language on Saturday April 18, 2026 @03:48AM (#47814024)
If you have not tasted brunost you should definitely try it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunost
Re:Slugging it Out in Open Source [video] on Thursday April 02, 2026 @06:10PM (#47620820)
Love this way of story telling. Video definitely deserves more views!
Re:Quay.io down: Nginx 502 bad gateway on Monday March 30, 2026 @04:51PM (#47579556)
It is loading again. With a message at the top saying "Quay Container Registry is currently in read-only mode. Pulls and other read-only operations will succeed but all other operations are currently suspended."
This is the follow-up to our 2024 State of Platforms report. We ran the same survey twice, in late 2023 and late 2025, to track how platform engineering is evolving across the Norwegian public sector. The 2026 wave captured 45 organizations representing approximately 240,000 public sector employees and organizational budgets totaling 2.5 trillion NOK.
Re:You probably don't need Oh My Zsh on Saturday January 10, 2026 @01:57AM (#46563467)
Glad to see fish getting some shout outs here. Been using it for over ten years now, and it is super easy to get going on new hosts - it is just one simple install away.
Same here.
Re:Slack Is Down on Friday October 06, 2023 @05:15AM (#37788610)
Status page is updated with ongoing incident: https://status.slack.com/2023-10/ad8f0e62516e8812
Re:Slack Is Down on Friday October 06, 2023 @05:11AM (#37788584)
Started working again for me (Norway)
Re:Open source hooliganism and the TypeScript meltdown on Friday September 08, 2023 @03:10PM (#37438013)
And they said Rails was a Ghetto…
Re:Governments on GitHub on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @04:48AM (#36307440)
Here is a better list of Norwegian government agencies on GitHub https://github.com/MikAoJk/norwegian-public-organizations/tr...
Re:Governments on GitHub on Friday June 09, 2023 @03:42PM (#36263095)
Great, but most of the Norwegian governments are missing. Here is a more up to date list https://github.com/MikAoJk/norwegian-public-organizations/tr...
Maybe Musk shouldn’t fired all the SREs!
Re:Public Money, Public Code on Friday May 05, 2023 @01:37PM (#35832570)
For us it is a matter of building trust and allowing others to help if they choose so. We don’t expect many outside contributions.
Re:Public Money, Public Code on Friday May 05, 2023 @05:09AM (#35826908)
Yes, we definitely do that! Talking about cake, can someone form HN make a pull request, please?!

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