Ask HN: What open source projects need help?(ycombinator.com) Let's match open source projects that need help with developers looking to contribute. Think of this as "Who's Hiring" but for open source - a monthly thread to surface interesting projects that could use more hands.
200 points by aaronbrethorst 5 days ago | 109 comments
NoVNC: Add Automatic Clipboard Support(github.com/novnc) This PR adds support for automatic copy-pasting.
So when you are focused on the canvas and paste text it's pasted in the server and when you copy something in the server it's automatically copied to your local keyboard.
List of Common Misconceptions(wikipedia.org) This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. It has been suggested that this article should be split into multiple articles. (discuss) (October 2024)
Improving Private Signal Calls: Call Links and More(signal.org) If you love group calls on Signal, but don’t want to create a group chat for every combination of your friends or colleagues, you’re in luck. Today we’re launching call links: Share a link with anyone on Signal and in just a tap or click they can join the call. No group chat required.
Please Show Lots of Digits(dynomight.net) Hi there. It’s me, the person who stares very hard at the numbers in the papers you write. I’ve brought you here today to ask a favor.
Hell Freezes Over as AMD and Intel Come Together for x86(servethehome.com) Intel and AMD have what can only be described as a complex history of fierce competition, cooperation, and ebbs and flows. You might think from the headline that AMD just bought Intel, but that is not the case. Instead, the two companies are coming together to support x86 customers. At OCP Summit 2024 today, the companies announced a new x86 advisory board. The goals are to enable consistency and accelerate the time to market of the x86 ecosystem.
1097 points by geerlingguy 42 days ago | 157 comments
WikiProject AI Cleanup(wikipedia.org) Welcome to WikiProject AI Cleanup—a collaboration to combat the increasing problem of unsourced, poorly-written AI-generated content on Wikipedia. If you would like to help, add yourself as a participant in the project, inquire on the talk page, and see the to-do list.
WikiProject AI Cleanup(wikipedia.org) Welcome to WikiProject AI Cleanup—a collaboration to combat the increasing problem of unsourced, poorly-written AI-generated content on Wikipedia. If you would like to help, add yourself as a participant in the project, inquire on the talk page, and see the to-do list.
Warm Handoffs(luckymike.dev) Warm Handoffs are a procedure I’ve implemented with several teams and organizations to improve communication and collaboration in Slack. As organizations grow and ownership shifts and splits as teams are formed and re-formed, Slack channels proliferate, and it gets harder for folks across an org to know the right channel to get help for a particular problem.
Egoless Engineering(thetechenabler.substack.com) I often ask questions I already know the answer to. I'll start discussions for things I already have a pretty good idea of the solution for. I trust others with tasks that I'm sure I could do a great job on.
Wikipedia: WikiProject AI Cleanup(wikipedia.org) Welcome to WikiProject AI Cleanup—a collaboration to combat the increasing problem of unsourced, poorly-written AI-generated content on Wikipedia. If you would like to help, add yourself as a participant in the project, inquire on the talk page, and see the to-do list.
Evolving GitHub Issues(github.blog) GitHub Issues has been how the world’s best software teams collaborate since it first launched in 2009. Today we are excited to unveil a major evolution of issues and projects, featuring a range of highly requested enhancements including sub-issues, issue types and advanced search for issues.
FreeBSD, Better Laptop Support with Investment Backed by AMD, Dell and Framework(phoronix.com) Following AMD and FreeBSD Foundation collaborations and the Sovereign Tech Fund making a big investment into FreeBSD, the FreeBSD Foundation and Quantum Leap Research have announced a $750,000 USD commitment to improve laptop support on this BSD operating system with backing by Dell, AMD, and Framework Computer.