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HIP and ROCm as first-class citizens
Ludovic Courtès reports that Guix developers migrated the whole AMD HIP/ROCm stack from the Guix-HPC channels into Guix proper starting with 7.1.1: more than 40 packages covering the toolchain, linear algebra libraries, rocHPL, a ROCm Open MPI and profiling tools, plus HIP variants of scientific software.
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Ryan Dahl announces that the entire Deno team is joining Cloudflare, explaining how the move continues Deno's goal of simpler server software beyond the runtime, what it means for Deno Deploy and the open-source runtime, and why the new celld work focuses on Durable Objects.
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How We Made Our MMDB Files a Third Smaller Without Changing a Byte of Data
IPinfo's Tiago Martins and Silvano Cerza explain how hash-consing the MMDB search tree, exploiting how repetitive internet address data is, shrank IPinfo's 89 daily databases from 91.2 GB to 62.8 GB (31%, up to 80% for ipinfo_privacy) with no compression and no reader changes, how they proved the output is the same database, and why the mmdbshrink tool and mmdbctl update are open source.
7 min · 1,588 words
What ArtCraft’s Vibe-Coded Apps Say About Adobe
Tedium's Ernie Smith looks at ArtCraft, a project rebuilding Adobe's Creative Cloud apps such as Photoshop with clean-room, AI-first vibe-coding techniques, asks whether it is ethical, and argues it shows what happens when a company like Adobe ignores its users.
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How to Fix autoconf-style Config Probing
Boris Kolpackov explains why autoconf/CMake-style configuration probing, which compiles and links test programs to detect features, silently produces wrong results, and proposes fixes tested in build2: control probes that must succeed, stricter error detection and more, with roughly half a second of overhead for 500 probes.
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Deepthi Sigireddi from Supabase
Phil Eaton interviews Deepthi Sigireddi, Head of Databases at Supabase and former Vitess project lead at PlanetScale, about 25 years of database scaling work, leading Vitess, sharding Postgres with Multigres, incidents she learned from, and what agents creating many tiny databases mean next.
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Unison Cloud is now open source
Paul Chiusano announces that Unison Cloud, which turns a pool of nodes into a distributed computer programmable in Unison, is now MIT licensed, newly open-sourcing the Nimbus worker node, the Haskell Cloud API server and the Unison Cloud UI alongside the existing client.
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A GNU Guix blog tutorial on extending Guix with new guix commands: listing available extensions, the existing extension packages and meta-package, and walking through creating an extension's project directories and Scheme module so it can be distributed and used by others.
5 min · 1,143 words
OTel-Native by Design: Building Products That Export to Any Observability Stack
An OpenTelemetry blog guide for SaaS and self-hosted product builders on letting customers export logs, traces, metrics and profiles over OTLP to any OpenTelemetry-compatible backend instead of locking them into built-in dashboards or specific vendors.
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Thanks to 227 contributors, 817 pull requests, community reviewers, and our generous donors, we're happy to announce the Bevy 0.20 release on crates.io!
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Mark Otto introduces Bootstrap 6 Alpha 1: a ground-up modernization with the Sass module system, ESM-only JavaScript, broader native browser APIs, and new CSS standards, plus a roadmap for a continuing v5.x line.
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The people holding up the internet
A sheets.works data story that counts who actually maintains 23 pieces of software every phone, browser and server depends on. It finds 11 of 23 projects rely on one or two regular contributors, and tells the stories of maintainers such as Paul Eggert (time zone database), Lasse Collin (xz), Denis Pushkarev (core-js), Todd Miller (sudo) and the SQLite, zlib, bash and curl teams.
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State of Drupal presentation (September 2026)
Drupal founder Dries Buytaert recaps his DrupalCon Rotterdam 2026 keynote: Drupal is now light-years ahead of its reputation, and closing that gap is the project's top challenge. He covers multilingual and headless Drupal Canvas, React code components, Drupal AI and Drupal CMS progress since Starshot, plus a new advocacy program.
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Zephon: Fast, Flexible, Elastically Deterministic Data Loading
DatologyAI open-sources Zephon, a data loader for text and multimodal foundation model training that tokenizes, packs and mixes data on the fly while keeping the exact same sequence of global batches when GPU count, operator parallelism or execution backend change. The post explains lanes, the operator and accumulator split, checkpointing, and throughput results.
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All our houses are built on sand now
Paul Battley measured how many recent commits to major programming language implementations are LLM-assisted, finding about a third for C# and Ruby and over half for Julia, while Perl, Lua and Chicken Scheme stay near zero. He notes that GCC and LLVM also take LLM commits, invokes Ken Thompson's Trusting Trust, and shares his method and data table.
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Creating distro build tooling for a small community
A long post from the Chimera Linux project making the case for cbuild, its custom package build system. It explains how the tooling is designed to cater to a small contributor community, how templates, dependencies and shared library providers are handled, how sandboxed builds work, and the self-hosted multi-architecture builder fleet behind the distro.
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Twenty-two pending curl vulnerabilities
Daniel Stenberg announces that curl 8.23.0 will ship early, on October 14 2026, fixing twenty-two security vulnerabilities including CVE-2026-92392, only the third HIGH severity curl CVE since 2021. Details stay embargoed until release, with distros and support customers alerted ahead of time and a follow-up post promised.
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From the books you read to your vision board: creating your own core memories
Mark Veidemanis explains a KOReader plugin and web panel he built to sync ebook highlights, annotations, bookmarks and reading statistics, so he can replace doomscrolling with re-reading quotes from books he loved, with the plugin source published on GitHub.
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Migrate your site to the new git-pages backed Codeberg Pages now. We're sunsetting Codeberg Pages v2
Codeberg announces that Codeberg Pages v2, its unmaintained in-house static site hosting, will be shut off completely on 31 December 2026. Users who never set up a webhook are still on v2 and must migrate to the git-pages backed Codeberg Pages before then, using the Migration Guide and the Migration Check Tool.
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An open-source developer recounts trying to share GitHub projects on Reddit: every attempt, from posting links on a new account to slowly building comments, adding typos to avoid AI-slop flags, starting his own community and finally earning 1k karma through the mobile app, ended with deleted posts and banned accounts.
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