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UPDATED APRIL 8, 2020

To keep this tag clean and meaningful, please ensure your post fits into at least one of the following categories:

Organizing, managing, running, or working in an Open Source project.
Open Source philosophy, licensing, and/or practical and legal topics thereof.
Advocacy and adoption of Open Source philosophy.

DO NOT use this tag if you are simply using technologies which happen to be open source.

You should NOT use this tag for any of the following:

Promoting open source projects, such as feature lists or announcements. (Use #news or Listings.)
Contributor requests. (Use #contributorswanted or Listings.)
Tutorials/articles that happen to use an open source tool. (Use appropriate technology tags.)
Showing off something you've built that happens to be open source. (Use the #showdev tag.)
Sharing lists of open source projects. (Use #githunt or the appropriate technology tags.)

Projects must comply with the Open Source Definition (see below) to legally use the term "open source".

As all "Free Software" officially complies with the standards of Open Source anyway, this tag covers both (collectively, FOSS).

Open Source is so much more than "you can read the code". It is formally defined by the Open Source Initiative.

"Open Source" should not be confused with the similar Free Software, which is defined by the Free Software Foundation. Generally, all Free Software is also Open Source, and the two camps often cooperate; however, the concepts are distinct! (The tags are merged here on DEV.to for simplicity, however.)

Open Source Hardware is defined and overseen by the Open Source Hardware Assocation

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Jul 21

A bug in Qwen3-TTS taught me voice is biometric

#ai #security #opensource #python

3 min read

Rishu

Jul 21

Stop Letting AI Write Security Bugs: Introducing "hallint"

#security #ai #opensource #typescript

4 min read

Louis

Jul 21

OAuthSonas: A Tiny OpenID Connect Provider for Playwright E2E Tests

#playwright #oauth #e2e #opensource

9 min read

Leo Huang

Jul 21

A 2,181-video field report made my open-source video tool better in one day

#showdev #ai #llm #opensource

2 min read

Gagandeep Singh Ahuja

Jul 20

Building SaarDB, Part 3: Compaction

#database #sql #go #opensource

10 min read

Ahmed Mohyeldin

Jul 21

Introducing ConVTS: a C/C++ Library for Modern Terminal Applications

#showdev #c #cpp #opensource

4 min read

Jul 21

Scam Intelligence Network: One API for Threat Intelligence (URL, Email, Phone & Crypto)

#showdev #api #opensource #security

3 min read

Jul 21

I Built a Slot-Filling Onboarding Bot. It Leaked a Validation Error Into the Chat

#llm #node #typescript #opensource

4 min read

Alexander Pervushen for DeepLab

Jul 21

Fit any video under the limit: meet DeepShrink, a one-command media compressor

#rust #cli #ffmpeg #opensource

4 min read

Jul 21

I Thought Building an AI GitHub Assistant Would Take a Weekend. I Was Wrong.

#ai #programming #productivity #opensource

4 min read

Debashish Ghosal

Jul 21

4 Open-Source AI Tools, 1 MCP Server — What I Built and What I Learned

#discuss #ai #python #opensource

7 min read

Nekoautomata Miki

Jul 21

A valid ISBN checksum is not a catalog record

#opensource #books #productivity #node

2 min read

Wallet Guy

Jul 21

The Future of API Bills: When Machines Pay Machines with x402 Protocol

#ai #web3 #api #opensource

7 min read

Ashraf

Jul 21

Open Weights Just Beat America's Trillion-Dollar AI Bet

#discuss #ai #opensource #machinelearning

4 min read

Smoren

Jul 21

Building explicit data-flow graphs in TypeScript: Introducing Transferum

#typescript #opensource #frp #rxjs

4 min read

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