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114•rickybule•2h ago•91 comments

How to Install TrueNAS on a Raspberry Pi

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/how-install-truenas-on-raspberry-pi
159•furkansahin•4h ago•108 comments

Are OpenAI and Anthropic losing money on inference?

https://martinalderson.com/posts/are-openai-and-anthropic-really-losing-money-on-inference/
316•martinald•8h ago•308 comments

Launch HN: Dedalus Labs (YC S25) – Vercel for Agents

28•windsor•2h ago•3 comments

The Lobster Programming Language

https://www.strlen.com/lobster/
44•klaussilveira•2d ago•10 comments

VLT observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS II

https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18382
4•bikenaga•22m ago•0 comments

Optimising for maintainability – Gleam in production at Strand

https://gleam.run/case-studies/strand/
43•Bogdanp•3h ago•8 comments

Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enough (2023)

https://xeiaso.net/blog/anything-message-queue
137•crescit_eundo•3h ago•43 comments

PinePhone Pro [GNU/Linux smartphone] has been discontinued

https://social.treehouse.systems/@pine64/115027515081143369
109•fsflover•2h ago•44 comments

American military service members deserve the right to repair

https://www.militarytimes.com/opinion/2025/07/11/why-service-members-deserve-the-right-to-repair/
77•noleary•2h ago•37 comments

GAN Math (2020)

https://jaketae.github.io/study/gan-math/
124•sebg•7h ago•26 comments

Microbial metabolite repairs liver injury by restoring hepatic lipid metabolism

https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.01718-25
68•PaulHoule•7h ago•6 comments

Teams Grow Organically

https://frederickvanbrabant.com/blog/2025-08-22-how-teams-grow-organically/
34•TheEdonian•3d ago•12 comments

Mosh Mobile Shell

https://mosh.org
119•rbinv•3h ago•61 comments

Birth of 86-DOS – By Nemanja Trifunovic

https://nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/birth-of-86-dos
38•rbanffy•3d ago•4 comments

Important machine learning equations

https://chizkidd.github.io//2025/05/30/machine-learning-key-math-eqns/
237•sebg•7h ago•24 comments

Will AI Replace Human Thinking? The Case for Writing and Coding Manually

https://www.ssp.sh/brain/will-ai-replace-humans/
69•articsputnik•4h ago•55 comments

Uncertain<T>

https://nshipster.com/uncertainty/
42•samtheprogram•1h ago•3 comments

Prosper AI (YC S23) Is Hiring Founding Account Executives (NYC)

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/prosper-ai/29684590-4cec-4af2-bb69-eb5c6d595fb8
1•XDGC•6h ago

Claude Code Checkpoints

https://claude-checkpoints.com/
129•punnerud•9h ago•91 comments

The startup bubble that no one is talking about

https://tj401.com/blog/formd/index.html
126•lemonlym•6h ago•44 comments

Das Problem mit German Strings

https://www.polarsignals.com/blog/posts/2025/08/26/das-problem-mit-german-strings
59•asubiotto•1d ago•19 comments

Open Source is one person

https://opensourcesecurity.io/2025/08-oss-one-person/
290•LawnGnome•16h ago•113 comments

GPUPrefixSums – state of the art GPU prefix sum algorithms

https://github.com/b0nes164/GPUPrefixSums
50•coffeeaddict1•5h ago•11 comments

Colleges see significant drop in international students as fall semester begins

https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5498669
41•mooreds•2h ago•29 comments

The Deletion of Docker.io/Bitnami

https://community.broadcom.com/tanzu/blogs/beltran-rueda-borrego/2025/08/18/how-to-prepare-for-th...
319•zdkaster•14h ago•211 comments

China is eating the world

https://apropos.substack.com/p/china-is-eating-the-world
74•sg5421•2h ago•121 comments

Show HN: Grammit – Local-only AI grammar checker (Chrome extension)

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/grammit-the-ai-grammar-ch/pkfmoknmnkbidlniedaloiijibdpjjmm
11•scottfr•3h ago•2 comments

iOS Elegantbouncer: When You Can't Get Samples but Still Need to Catch Threats

https://www.msuiche.com/posts/elegantbouncer-when-you-cant-get-the-samples-but-still-need-to-catc...
28•transpute•3d ago•9 comments

Yamanot.es: A music box of train station melodies from the JR Yamanote Line

https://yamanot.es/
324•zdw•21h ago•97 comments
Open in hackernews

Fossjobs: A job board for Free and Open Source jobs

https://www.fossjobs.net/
144•rendx•8h ago

Comments

rendx•7h ago
On Mastodon: https://floss.social/@fossjobs
eu•7h ago
there aren’t many such jobs
ethanwillis•7h ago
There's definitely a lot more I think but they just don't all get posted there. I know I've seen various FOSS jobs but they get posted or talked about in IRC, mailing lists for a specific project, etc.

But you're right to say there aren't a ton relative to non-FOSS jobs.

pabs3•5h ago
There are definitely a lot from big companies like Intel/AMD/RedHat, and some medium companies like Canonical. More on the FOSSjobs wiki.

https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/resources

fuzzy_biscuit•6h ago
That got into 2024 postings fairly quickly. I don't get the sense that the data is very fresh or expansive.
em-bee•5h ago
it is fresh, but it is certainly not expansive. there aren't many businesses that work with and produce FOSS exclusively. and for all others it would be hard to guarantee that you are going to work on FOSS most or all of the time, so i'd think that not to many jobs even qualify
47282847•5h ago
Feel free to crosspost if you come across interesting ones!
troyvit•2h ago
I noticed the lack of freshness too, but I look forward to mining it for the organizations and then visiting their jobs pages directly to see what's going on.
elAhmo•6h ago
It is ridiculous to post a jobs listing side without salaries or salary ranges listed.

As people who want to work we should just reject using pages like this, as this favours only employers.

7bit•6h ago
Unfortunately, that's normal in Germany and many listing are German. Fortunately, this fucking practice will be illegal in a little over 4 months.
sandreas•5h ago
> Fortunately, this fucking practice will be illegal in a little over 4 months

could you elaborate?

mhitza•3h ago
This EU directive will kick in which mandates (among other things) transparency for salaries

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/pay-transparency...

staticelf•6h ago
"Senior Software Engineer (all genders) - Wikibase Suite"

wtf do they mean by "all genders"? Just write Senior Software Engineer, that is genderless by default?

tom_•6h ago
The term is a gendered one in German. See also, e.g., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14462318
trenchpilgrim•5h ago
It's a weird direct translation from German. The word for an SWE is gendered, but the postings clarify that the job is open to everyone.
general1726•5h ago
English is actually a weird language without genders in nouns. I.e. in Slavic languages you can say "male software engineer" with word "vyvojar" and "female software engineer" with a word "vyvojarka" and then lot of grammar is built atop of this fact.

Job listing are then trying to use something like "vyvojar/ka" to signify that both genders are sought for, but there is nothing like that in English, so you will get translation as "software engineer (all genders)" instead of using just "software engineer"

jamesnorden•5h ago
fe/male perhaps
ulfw•6h ago
Who doesn't want a Free Job?!
pabs3•5h ago
More resources for open source jobs on the FOSSjobs wiki:

https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/resources

jpizagno•5h ago
This shows just how low the salaries are in Germany. The salaries listed here, at 50k€/annual, were what I was making in 2012, when I entered Germany.
giancarlostoro•4h ago
I'm really confused by one of the Germany listings that says in parenthesis "all genders" are jobs in Germany gender specific or something? I'm thinking maybe "Senior Software Engineer" is gendered in German or something. I speak Spanish, and there's a TON of words that are gendered, so I could understand if this is just a case of German being translated and something being non-obvious to me as a result.
syntonym2•4h ago
In german most job titles can either be masculine or feminine, and the masculine case is chosen "by default". Most job advertisements clarify that persons of all gender are welcome to apply. As the job advertisement is in english, it doesn't really make sense here.
dotancohen•2h ago
In most languages, the male gender form is used also as the unknown gender. Not the default gender, but the unknown or unspecified gender. The distinction being that when the male gender form is encountered, it could also be an unknown or unspecified gender.

For another nice bit of related trivia, in Arabic the female gender form is also the plural gender form.

ahoka•4h ago
They are just stupid, makes no sense in English to add that. In German it's something like: "Fireman wanted (not just men)"
rwl•4h ago
Yes, that's what's going on: job titles are typically gendered in German, which leads to job ads being written in an awkward way to express gender neutrality. For example, "engineer" has both a masculine form "Ingenieur" and a feminine form "Ingenieurin", so a job ad might say something like "Ingenieur*in (m/w/d)" to mean "an engineer of any gender".
giancarlostoro•4h ago
I think you kind of answered it "Ingenieur" and "Engineer" could be assumed to be roughly the same, so I could see the confusion there.

That trick with the asterisk reminds me of how in Spanish you'll see people using @ to do similar, @ being a place holder for two different possible letters specifically "o" and "a" which can be masculine or feminine depending.

This makes sense, thank you!

ramon156•5h ago
Is there something similar that's just about contributing to companies' open source software? I like helping out projects while also gaining some experience, but most FOSS software has a cookie-licking issue.

I've contributed to Tweede Golf before and that was a very pleasant experience, I can't imagine they're in the minority here.

ujkhsjkdhf234•3h ago
> but most FOSS software has a cookie-licking issue.

A what issue?

crystal_revenge•1h ago
Happy to see that this lists jobs that seem to be truly dedicated to FOSS (even if the listings are limited).

One word of caution (from personal experience) to anyone dreaming of getting paid to work on OSS: be very, very skeptical of any VC funded startup whose flagship "product" is OSS. Regardless of the public messaging, you'll likely see: resources continually pulled, features intentionally withheld to make the private offering more competitive, community needs de-prioritized, etc. On top of that, "bait-and-switch" job offers were very common in my experience; promises of living the dream getting paid to work on OSS only to be transferred to an internal, commercial team a week later.

I'm sure there are exceptions to this, but, especially for less well established companies in the OSS space, caution is advised.

SilentM68•1h ago
VC-Funded startups look a lot like post-secondary education where funding is a continuous issue. Been like that for many decades, unfortunately.
elestor•48m ago
You seem to work for free too
ElijahLynn•46m ago
LOVE THIS!!!

It's very difficult to find open source jobs otherwise.

An improvement I'd like to see to Fossjobs.net is a field for "open communication" too. Sometimes open source software doesn't actually imply open source communication or development in the open. AKA Android. And it would be nice to be able to see if the company or organization embraces open communication and or open development.