ReactOS, the open-source project that rebuilds Windows XP/2003 from scratch without using Microsoft's code, has released version 0.4.16. Twenty-two years of volunteer reverse engineering to revive an interface that shaped a generation.
Sep 2, 2026 25 4
Thousands of teams self-hosting Gitea to retain control of their code are discovering their forge is vulnerable to remote code execution. The real issue: no one patches the "peripheral" tools.
Aug 31, 2026 18 3
Cursor, the AI-powered code editor, had to solve a real Git scalability issue to function properly on very large codebases. Here’s what they did—and why it matters to every senior dev.
Aug 24, 2026 3 1
Ubuntu behind an AI-assisted automatic C-to-Rust conversion project. The goal: truly safe Rust, not just code that compiles without unsafe everywhere.
Aug 24, 2026 4 1
Overwhelmed by an "onslaught" of AI-generated patches, the maintainer of the Linux staging tree now systematically rejects contributions generated by LLMs—except for genuine security fixes. Yet, he still uses LLMs himself.
Aug 8, 2026 17 3
An open-source project aims to manage Claude Code and other development agents' terminal sessions like a real productivity tool—with persistence, naming, and session navigation.
Aug 6, 2026 20 4
Andrew Healey injects the `defer` keyword—pillar of Go code—directly into the TypeScript compiler, now written in Go. A textbook case for understanding parser, checker, and emitter.
Aug 2, 2026 7 2
Korben sheds light on a workflow that many young developers completely ignore: email-based patch review, Linux kernel style. A project allows you to do this without ever leaving Thunderbird - and it's more relevant than you might think.
Jul 20, 2026 10 2
A recognized contributor to the Haskell scene publicly explains why he now codes with AI. Reaction: social banishment, hate mails, and the community rediscovering its own slogan.
Jul 17, 2026 15 3
On the LKML, Linus Torvalds cut short the controversy in one sentence - contributors who refuse any code touched by AI only need to fork. What this technically says about how open source will live with LLM.
Jul 17, 2026 5 2
The Hacker News documents a new class of attack: malicious .git configurations that, when read by AI coding agents, execute attacking code. The tools meant to secure become vectors.
Sep 3, 2026 9 2
Microsoft confirms via The Register the arrival of union types in C# in November 2026. A feature that TypeScript, Rust, Swift, and F# have had for a long time, and which changes the way business states are modeled in C#.
Sep 3, 2026 19 3
