Hacker News
N-gated Hacker News🚀 Announcing the QUIC(k)est way to reinvent the wheel: it's called Noq, because nothing says "innovation" like #forking an existing project and slapping a new name on it. 🤡 But hey, at least it's written in #Rust, because who doesn't love squeezing out every last drop of #performance while simultaneously inducing eye twitches in C++ developers? 😂
https://www.iroh.computer/blog/noq-announcement #QUICkInnovation #CplusplusEyeTwitch #HackerNews #ngated
Sub-millisecond VM sandboxes using CoW memory forking
https://github.com/adammiribyan/zeroboot
#HackerNews #SubMillisecondVM #Sandboxes #CoWMemory #Forking #ZeroBoot #GitHub
StrypeyWas it really 15 years ago that the majority of the OpenOffice community voted with their feet against Oracle? Forking the software as LibreOffice, and forming the Document Foundation as a vendor-neutral stewardship body for this office software commons;
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/09/28/libreoffice-turns-15/
Like the forking of OwnCloud as NextCloud, a reminder that poor Free Code stewards can be forked around (looking at you Mozilla and Android/Linux).
EDIT: typo
LibreOffice turns 15: a celebration of freedom, collaboration and open technologies and standards - TDF Community Blog
Fifteen years ago, we announced our ambitious plan to provide the world with a fully free and open office suite created by and for the community. Today, we are celebrating 15 years of LibreOffice — a milestone not only for the software itself, but also for the global movement that it represents. LibreOffice was born on 28 September 2010 when it was launched as a fork of OpenOffice. This was not just a technical split, but also a declaration of independence, transparency, and freedom. LibreOffice would be free: free to use, free to modify, and free from corporate constraints. From day one, our mission has been clear: to empower people through open technology. A community like no other LibreOffice has never been alone. Throughout its journey, it has been supported by a community of thousands of contributors and dozens of companies who have contributed to development, design, localisation, quality assurance and other services to support its growth. Many have simply dedicated their time, skills and passion to creating something unique and better for everyone. Over the years, the community has: Released dozens of major versions, each more powerful and significantly better than the last; Localised LibreOffice into over 120 languages,
AFAIK the terms 'soft fork' and 'hard fork' entered the lexicon from the crypto world, where they refer to software changes that split a blockchain into sub-chains. With a soft fork, the sub-chains remain interoperable. A hard fork makes them incompatible; what IRC greyhairs might call a 'netsplit'.
But AFAICT, these terms have since been repurposed by others to refer to something similar but different; 2 ways of forking any Free Code software project.
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MatthijsI absolutely #forking love everything about #forking #StarfleetAcademy from the weird fun but very #StarTrek plots, the great characters played by lovely new unknown actors, love the 'adults' who are clearly having fun and the appropriate slightly cheeky sexiness. And guys, Holly Hunter, don't you love Holly Hunter?
Nicol WistreichMike Little: the British co-founder of WordPress you’ve probably never heard of (but should)…
In the story of WordPress –the tool that powers 45% of the web, including 10s of 1000s of film sites– Mike Little is Steve Wozniak to Matt Mullenweg's Steve Jobs. Matt polished the interface, the marketing and curly quotes – while Mike added the blogroll, rebuilt the code, and added the one-click easy-upgrade that's been central to its success. But unlike Woz, Mike never had shares in Matt's $7bn business – or even a job there. He didn't know you could make a living from WordPress until he turned up at the first UK WordCamp. He hasn’t been knighted or hall-of-famed, and isn’t known outside of old WordPress developer circles. Is this because he’s a cheerful and easy-going northerner from Stockport? Because he didn’t have a degree? Because he’s black? I don’t know. All I know for sure, is this is someone who anyone in tech, or who uses WordPress, should know about.
data0This is such a good article, anyone (any real person anyway) doing open source should read it! 👏👏👏 @andrewnez
> #GitHub made #forking a one-click operation a decade ago without ever investing in making the resulting graph navigable […] A pull-based model would sidestep most of this, because #agents can #fork and generate garbage all day without anything landing in anyone’s inbox.
FiggyIn the Venn diagram of the #forkiverse this week we have flushable wipes, fatbergs, ICE, AI agents and much more. It's a great #forking time to be alive! #searchengine #hardfork
Khürt WilliamsAutomattic, WordPress, and Long-Term Endurance
My focus is on stability and endurance rather than politics, as the platform evolves.