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Oregon State University's Open Source Lab Is Running on Fumes

https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/02/osl_short_of_money/

48•doener•3h ago

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whalesalad•2h ago

I remember using their mirrors in like 2005 to install Linux packages.

mdaniel•2h ago

I used to donate to them <https://osuosl.org/donate> but I don't recall why. Looking at <https://osuosl.org/communities/> it's possible they have switched to all PowerPC and aarch64 centric focus

voxadam•2h ago

Future of OSU Open Source Lab in Jeopardy | 6 days ago | 102 comments| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43849271

bgwalter•2h ago

This looks like a victim of some anti-wokeness Trump program. The administration probably remembers that Oregon was pretty active in BLM protests. Perhaps the GPL friendliness of the OSU lab also plays a role.

The broligarchs want the OSS slaves to write free MIT/BSD software and otherwise shut up.

Downtown San Francisco retail is dying. What's replacing it is so much worse

https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/downtown-san-francisco-retail-dying-sam-altman-20307342.php

1•nradov•1m ago•0 comments

Fedora Linux is now an official WSL distro

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/fedora-linux-is-now-an-official-wsl-distro/

1•ingve•1m ago•0 comments

The Role of Doubt in Design (2019)

https://matthewstrom.com/writing/doubt/

1•colinprince•2m ago•0 comments

Why the humanoid workforce is running late

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/06/1116108/why-the-humanoid-workforce-is-running-late/

1•gnabgib•2m ago•0 comments

Fileread software engineer back end and quality

https://wellfound.com/jobs/3261162-senior-software-engineer

1•peipeifiore•2m ago•0 comments

Tech talent verify their credential on our platform

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1•kareemyab•4m ago•1 comments

Kryptos [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVpsLMCIB0Y

1•nimishk•5m ago•0 comments

The Phony Physics of Star Wars Are a Blast

https://www.wired.com/story/the-phony-physics-of-star-wars-are-a-blast/

2•colinprince•7m ago•0 comments

Tennis adopted electronic line calling on clay and created a ball-mark monster

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6320584/2025/04/30/tennis-electronic-line-calling-clay-ball-marks-umpires/

3•ChrisArchitect•8m ago•2 comments

Show HN: A tiny landing page for all my Finnish language learning software

https://finbug.xyz/

2•hiAndrewQuinn•8m ago•0 comments

AI Max for Ads

https://blog.google/products/ads-commerce/google-ai-max-for-search-campaigns/

1•sanj•9m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How are you using MCP when coding?

2•mbm•12m ago•0 comments

Vibe Checks Are All You Need

https://olshansky.substack.com/p/vibe-checks-are-all-you-need

1•Olshansky•12m ago•0 comments

Autofocusing Glasses

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1•MattSayar•14m ago•0 comments

Why LLMs Are Not (Yet) the Silver Bullet for Unstructured Data Processing

https://unstract.com/blog/why-llms-struggle-with-unstructured-data/

2•constantinum•16m ago•2 comments

Why Google is losing its iron grip on search, and what I use now instead

https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-google-seems-to-be-losing-its-iron-grip-on-search-and-what-i-use-now-instead/

6•CrankyBear•18m ago•1 comments

Supportive? Addictive? Abusive? How AI companions affect our mental health

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01349-9

1•rntn•20m ago•0 comments

Solution to the Puzzle Informatix

https://wondrousnet.blogspot.com/2024/06/solution-to-puzzle-informatix.html

1•morethenthis•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/seven-services/id1605632555

1•YasuSaberi•21m ago•0 comments

Rich Schroepell responds to Ron Rivest and the RSA MIT algorithm (1977)

https://archive.org/details/schroepell-all-pdf

2•iloveburritos89•26m ago•0 comments

Reasons we extend the pinky finger while drinking

https://www.interesly.com/bizarre-origins-extending-pinky-finger/

1•samdung•26m ago•0 comments

Ani.town – a social website for querying anime stats

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1•snekcaseenjoyer•27m ago•1 comments

What's Changed in 50 Years of Computing: Part 4

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/mythical-man-month-part-4

1•signa11•27m ago•0 comments

12 Years of Ghost

https://john.onolan.org/12/

1•docdeek•28m ago•1 comments

Standardizing LLM ↔ Business Communication / Tech Proposal

https://www.agent-ready.ai/blog/standardizing-llm-app-communication

2•JPBlack•28m ago•1 comments

Elite Colleges Lead a Rush for the Exits of Private Equity

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-06/elite-colleges-lead-a-rush-for-the-exits-of-private-equity

1•petethomas•29m ago•1 comments

Asyncio Demystified: Rebuilding It from Scratch One Yield at a Time

https://dev.indooroutdoor.io/asyncio-demystified-rebuilding-it-from-scratch-one-yield-at-a-time

1•jbrocher•30m ago•0 comments

Bryan Johnson wants to start a new religion in which "the body is God"

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/05/1116090/bryan-johnson-new-religion-body-is-god/

1•pr0zac•30m ago•0 comments

Defending Against ScatteredSpider: Cybercrime Hardening Guide

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/unc3944-proactive-hardening-recommendations

1•threat_analyst•36m ago•0 comments

Channel 3 Moscow

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3•reaperducer•37m ago•0 comments