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FLUX.1 Kontext [Dev] – Open Weights for Image Editing
10 months ago
- FLUX.1 Kontext [dev] is released as an open-weight model for image editing, available under the FLUX.1 Non-Commercial License.
- The model offers proprietary-level performance with 12B parameters, compatible with consumer hardware and popular inference frameworks like ComfyUI and HuggingFace Diffusers.
- FLUX.1 Kontext [dev] excels in iterative editing, character preservation, and precise local/global edits, outperforming both open and closed models in benchmarks.
- Optimized TensorRT weights for NVIDIA Blackwell architecture are available, improving speed and reducing memory usage.
- A self-serve licensing portal is introduced for commercial access to FLUX.1 models, simplifying the process for businesses.
- Updates to the FLUX.1 [dev] Non-Commercial License include clarifications on non-commercial use, content filters, provenance, and restrictions.
- Resources include model weights on HuggingFace, code on GitHub, API documentation, and a helpdesk for support.
Home Assistant Voice chapter 10
10 months ago
- Voice Chapter 10 introduces improvements in Open Voice, including support for more languages, hardware compatibility, and enhanced performance.
- Users are invited to contribute via the public Voice project board on GitHub.
- ESPHome now includes features like wake words on the device, open-sourced media player platform, and dynamic wake word activation.
- Optimizations in ESPHome reduce CPU usage significantly, enabling more features on resource-constrained devices like ATOM Echo.
- KiCad project files for Voice Preview Edition hardware are now available on GitHub for public use.
- Speech-to-Phrase enhancements include better sentence format, precise sentence generation, and support for 21 languages.
- Piper adds new voices and languages, expanding support to 39 languages and dialects.
- Language support is categorized into Cloud, Focused Local, and Full Local, each scored for user clarity.
- New features in Assist include continued conversation updates, media search and play intent, and future plans for critical confirmations and custom conversations.
- The Open Voice project encourages community contributions to expand language support and improve functionality.
Munich Open Source
10 months ago
- The Free Software ecosystem provides many solutions and applications.
- Modern IT heavily relies on free software.
- Free software is used in various fields.
- Munich develops, commissions, and sponsors open source projects.
Microsoft Releases Classic MS-DOS Editor for Linux
10 months ago
- Microsoft released a modern remake of the classic MS-DOS Editor, now open-source and called 'Edit'.
- The new version is built with Rust and supports Windows, macOS, and Linux, surprising longtime users.
- The original MS-DOS Editor (1991) was a major improvement over EDLIN, introducing full-screen UI and mouse support.
- Modern 'Edit' contrasts with cryptic Linux editors like Vim, which often confuse newcomers with modal editing.
- The tool is praised for being open-source, cross-platform, and supporting both keyboard and mouse input.
Torvalds Drops Bcachefs Support After Clash
10 months ago
- Claudia is an open-source GUI for Claude AI code development.
- Linus Torvalds drops Bcachefs support from Linux kernel 6.17 due to disagreements with maintainer Kent Overstreet.
- Kent Overstreet submitted a 'journal-rewind' feature during the RC phase, against kernel development norms.
- Theodore Ts'o criticized Kent's approach, citing risks of regressions and violation of merge window rules.
- Kent defended his actions, emphasizing flexibility for user data integrity and bug fixes.
- Linus merged the patch but ultimately removed Bcachefs support from the 6.17 merge window.
- Kent expressed frustration but acknowledged Linus's contributions and sought better communication.
- The conflict highlights the challenges of Linux kernel development and community dynamics.
- It's FOSS celebrates 13 years, offering a discounted lifetime Plus membership until June 25.
Tang Nano 9K Series [tutorial]
10 months ago
- Free beginners series on FPGA development using the Tang Nano 9K board.
- Tang Nano 9K chosen for its powerful, compact, and affordable FPGA core.
- Uses a completely open-source toolchain for development.
- Series includes articles on installation, debugging, UART, OLED projects, and more.
- Projects cover topics like random numbers, I2C, ADC, CPU creation, and video protocols.
- Extra articles include manual toolchain installation and bitstream exploration.
Flashing open-source firmware into Eufy C120 IP Camera
10 months ago
- Consumer IP cameras are heavily locked down, requiring proprietary apps and cloud accounts for setup.
- Open-source firmware like Thingino offers a way to bypass these restrictions, enabling features like RTSP/ONVIF.
- The Eufy C120 camera was chosen for flashing due to its compatibility and non-intrusive design.
- Flashing requires specific hardware (Micro-USB OTG adapter, Male-to-Male USB cable) and software (Cloner).
- The process involves dumping the original firmware, merging files, and flashing the new firmware.
- After flashing, the camera boots into WiFi AP mode for configuration without needing cloud services.
Manifold: An open-source tool to run AI models for 90% less
10 months ago
- Manifold is a free, open-source toolkit for deploying, managing, and securing AI models.
- It simplifies AI deployment by providing an essential infrastructure layer, addressing complexity, cost, and trust issues.
- Key problems solved: Complexity (Kubernetes, cloud tools), Cost (unpredictable bills), Trust (security, auditing).
- Manifold is described as the 'Operating System for AI Deployment' with pillars: Simplicity, Trust, Control.
- Features include a single CLI, JSON-based audit logs, and simulated cost estimation.
- Prerequisites: Docker Desktop and Python 3.8+.
- Setup involves cloning the repository, setting up a virtual environment, and installing dependencies.
- System components: Background Daemon and CLI Client.
- Basic commands: run, list (ps), logs, stop services.
- Phase 1 MVP includes core service lifecycle management, client-daemon architecture, auditing, and cost estimation.
- Project is under active development, inviting contributions.
Gridfinity: The modular, open-source grid storage system
10 months ago
- Perplexing Labs' Gridfinity Generator allows custom bin, baseplate, and lid creation by inputting dimensions.
- Gridfinity is a modular storage system designed for workshops, promoting productivity, organization, and safety.
- The system is free, open source, and mostly 3D printable, based on 42x42x7mm units.
- Inspired by Alexander Chappels' Assortment System, Gridfinity was introduced by Zack Freedman under the MIT license.
- Gridfinity has a thriving community that continuously adapts the system to various needs.
- The project is ongoing, with community involvement encouraged through Zack's Discord channel.
Meta Joins Kotlin Foundation
10 months ago
- Meta joins Kotlin Foundation as a gold member, reinforcing commitment to Kotlin and Android development.
- Meta engineers migrated a large Android codebase from Java to Kotlin using an internal tool called Kotlinator.
- Meta shares its Java-to-Kotlin migration efforts via the enterprise working group and open-source projects like Buck2.
- Meta's Kotlin Foundation membership includes contributions to grants supporting open-source libraries and developer innovation.
- Meta encourages community engagement through its Open Source site, YouTube, and social media platforms.
I am not a supplier (2022)
10 months ago
- The concept of the Software Supply Chain has gained attention due to incidents like LeftPad and security vulnerabilities in widely used libraries.
- Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) has enabled extensive code reuse through libraries, supported by package managers and lenient licensing.
- The manufacturing industry's supply chain model involves deep relationships with suppliers to prevent disruptions, unlike the FOSS ecosystem.
- Companies face risks from dependencies on FOSS libraries, including security vulnerabilities, malicious code, and political decisions by maintainers.
- FOSS maintainers are not suppliers; they provide code voluntarily without business relationships or obligations to users.
- Many critical FOSS libraries struggle with funding, as highlighted in Nadia Eghbal's 'Roads and Bridges' report.
- FOSS licenses explicitly state that the software is provided 'AS IS,' with no warranties or liabilities from the authors.
- The author emphasizes that FOSS maintainers are not suppliers and rejects the imposition of supply chain rules without compensation.
- The article concludes by reiterating the 'AS IS' nature of FOSS and the lack of supplier relationships.
Cua (YC X25) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer
10 months ago
- Cua is developing infrastructure for general AI agents to safely and scalably use computers and apps like humans.
- Backed by Y Combinator, Cua offers an open-source framework, cloud container platform, and research-backed blueprint for AI agent systems.
- Looking for a Founding Engineer to help transition research prototypes into deployable systems.
- Key responsibilities include shipping infrastructure, OS-level sandboxing, scalable deployment environments, and open-source leadership.
- Ideal candidates have systems expertise, experience with scalable backend systems, and familiarity with LLM-generated code.
- Offers include competitive compensation, equity, and the chance to shape product and culture from the ground up.
- Application requires a GitHub profile, a note on a challenging infra problem solved, and optionally, a contribution to Cua's open-source project.
GNU Health Hospital Information System 5.0 Released
10 months ago
- GNU Health Hospital Information System (HIS) 5.0 series released, marking a major leap in functionality and technology.
- New features include enhanced Laboratory Information System (Occhiolino) with visual aids for out-of-range results and veterinary testing.
- Focus on Social Diseases with checks for uninsured populations and enhanced socioeconomic data entry.
- Medical Imaging improvements include better integration with Orthanc PACS server and package refactoring.
- Patient Medication now accessible from the main menu with population-level reporting.
- Allergic status validation automatically checks patient allergies at prescription and patient levels.
- Demographics enhancements include insurance validity checks, homeless status recording, and improved socioeconomic assessments.
- Insurances feature warnings on expired policies and links to medical evaluations and surgeries.
- Obstetrics updates include enhanced history and linking newborns with pregnancy results.
- Medical Genetics improvements feature updated datasets and better family history integration.
- Technology updates include migration to Codeberg for development, GNU Health-Control for sysadmin tasks, and Tryton 7.0 LTS framework.
- Gunicorn replaces uWSGI as the default WSGI server for production deployments.
- Increased modularity with reduced package interdependency and lighter installations via PyPI.
- Migration to Poetry for package and dependency management from setuptools.
- Documentation and support updates planned, with community engagement encouraged via mailing lists and Mastodon.
FossFLOW: Make beautiful isometric infrastructure diagrams
10 months ago
- FossFLOW is an open-source Progressive Web App (PWA) for creating isometric diagrams.
- Built with React and the Isoflow library, it runs entirely in the browser with offline support.
- Features include auto-save every 5 seconds, privacy-first local storage, and import/export capabilities.
- Supports installation as a native app on Mac and Linux.
- Development setup involves cloning the repository, installing dependencies, and starting a development server.
- Users can create diagrams by dragging and dropping components, connecting items, and customizing properties.
- Navigation includes pan, zoom, undo (Ctrl+Z), and redo (Ctrl+Y) functionalities.
- For production, optimized builds can be created and deployed to static hosting services like GitHub Pages or Netlify.
- PWA features require HTTPS, and diagrams are saved in browser localStorage with a 5-10MB limit.
- Compatible with Chrome/Edge (recommended), Firefox, Safari, and mobile browsers with PWA support.
- Contributions are welcome under the MIT license for Isoflow and Unlicense for FossFLOW.
Show HN: BunkerWeb – the open-source and cloud-native WAF
10 months ago
- BunkerWeb is an open-source Web Application Firewall (WAF) based on NGINX.
- Seamlessly integrates into environments like Linux, Docker, Swarm, and Kubernetes.
- Highly customizable with an optional web UI for easy configuration.
- Offers 'secure by default' protection with minimal setup.
- Includes core security features and supports plugins for extended functionality.
- Free under AGPLv3 license with professional services available.
- Key security features: HTTPS with Let's Encrypt, ModSecurity WAF, bot blocking, and more.
- Demo available at demo.bunkerweb.io and web UI demo at demo-ui.bunkerweb.io.
- BunkerWeb Cloud offers a fully managed SaaS solution.
- PRO version available with enhanced features and a free trial option.
Continue (YC S23) is hiring software engineers in San Francisco
10 months ago
- Developers can create, share, and use custom AI code assistants.
- Continue (YC S23) is headquartered in San Francisco and funded by Heavybit and notable angels.
- The company has 26k+ GitHub stars, 2M+ downloads, and adoption by large organizations like Siemens.
- Continue is building a team to address challenges at the intersection of AI and developer tools.
Open Source and FPGA Maker Board for Networking
10 months ago
- Private Island Networks Inc. is sponsoring university projects for the 2025/2026 academic year focused on network security, privacy, and machine learning using their open-source networking stack and Betsy™ maker board.
- The Betsy maker board features an Altera Cyclone 10 LP FPGA, supporting Gigabit Ethernet line rate processing for packet filtering, mirroring, data collection, and multi-port switching.
- The open-source Verilog stack is designed to be a template for custom projects, contrasting with closed-source SoC implementations.
- Current status includes ongoing development, limited availability of the Betsy Maker Board, and upcoming production models in 2026.
- Potential research projects include neural networks for intrusion detection, machine learning in the cloud, daughter board design, network visualization, threat modeling, secure communication, and thwarting undesirable network activity.
- Interested students or educators must fill out a form or send an email to be considered for sponsorship, with all projects requiring professor/teacher support.
A new, 200% faster DeepSeek R1-0528 variant appears from German lab
10 months ago
- DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup, released its latest open-source model, R1-0528, which is being widely adapted due to its permissive Apache 2.0 license.
- TNG Technology Consulting GmbH released DeepSeek-TNG R1T2 Chimera, an adaptation of R1-0528, which is 20% faster than the original R1 and more than twice as fast as R1-0528.
- R1T2 achieves 90% of R1-0528's intelligence benchmarks while using less than 40% of its output tokens, making it more efficient and cost-effective.
- The model uses TNG's Assembly-of-Experts (AoE) method, which merges weight tensors from multiple pre-trained models without further fine-tuning.
- AoE differs from Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) by focusing on merging expert tensors rather than dynamically activating experts at runtime.
- R1T2 is designed for high reasoning capability with concise responses, making it ideal for enterprise and research use.
- The model is available under an MIT License on Hugging Face, but has limitations in function calling and tool use.
- EU users should assess compliance with the upcoming EU AI Act, while U.S. companies have more flexibility.
- TNG Technology Consulting GmbH, founded in 2001, specializes in AI and software development, serving major industries.
- For enterprises, R1T2 offers lower inference costs, high reasoning quality, and open-source modifiability, though with some limitations.
French City of Lyon Kicks Out Microsoft
10 months ago
- Fedora 43 may drop UEFI boot support for MBR.
- European countries are increasingly rejecting Microsoft due to concerns over data privacy and digital sovereignty.
- Denmark is transitioning from Office 365 to LibreOffice; Schleswig-Holstein (Germany) is shifting from Windows to Linux.
- Lyon, France, is moving away from Microsoft software, adopting open-source alternatives like ONLYOFFICE and Linux.
- Lyon launched Territoire Numérique Ouvert (TNO), an open-source platform with tools like Jitsi, Nextcloud, and Matrix.
- TNO is used by thousands of employees in French local governments, hosted in regional data centers for data control.
- The project received €2 million in funding from ANCT.
Gajim 2.3.2 has been released – GTK XMPP/Jabber Chat Client – Communication
10 months ago
- Gajim 2.3 introduces a new design using the Adwaita UI library.
- Gajim 2.3.1 and 2.3.2 fix Windows system tray icon and database migration issues.
- Users are encouraged to join the XMPP chat for support and feedback.
- Gajim is free software developed by volunteers and welcomes donations.

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#open source

FLUX.1 Kontext [Dev] – Open Weights for Image Editing

Home Assistant Voice chapter 10

Munich Open Source

Microsoft Releases Classic MS-DOS Editor for Linux

Torvalds Drops Bcachefs Support After Clash

Tang Nano 9K Series [tutorial]

Flashing open-source firmware into Eufy C120 IP Camera

Manifold: An open-source tool to run AI models for 90% less

Gridfinity: The modular, open-source grid storage system

Meta Joins Kotlin Foundation

I am not a supplier (2022)

Cua (YC X25) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer

GNU Health Hospital Information System 5.0 Released

FossFLOW: Make beautiful isometric infrastructure diagrams

Show HN: BunkerWeb – the open-source and cloud-native WAF

Continue (YC S23) is hiring software engineers in San Francisco

Open Source and FPGA Maker Board for Networking

A new, 200% faster DeepSeek R1-0528 variant appears from German lab

French City of Lyon Kicks Out Microsoft

Gajim 2.3.2 has been released – GTK XMPP/Jabber Chat Client – Communication