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starefossenon Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes

If you want to visit Norway come to the west coast if you want fjords and scenery - not the capital in the east.

starefossenon Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?

For the my branch of the Norwegian Government we have a public skill registry and a tool to sync them locally according to what «profile» you select, https://ki-utvikling.nav.no/verktoy

Source at navikt/copilot

starefossenon The privacy problems hidden in your period tracker

Apple Health was not among the reviewed?

starefossenon Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development

We have have had the same experience (qwen3.6 rocks) when we are evaluating local models for our developers in the Norwegian Government https://github.com/navikt/mlx-workspace

starefossenon They STOLE his $200k Lego Collection – – – LEGALLY? [video]

Serve and protect.. the rich and powerful.

starefossenon Cplt: Run AI coding agents or a plain shell inside a kernel-level sandbox

Chromium via Playwright landed today https://github.com/navikt/cplt/pull/44 (I am the maintainer of cplt)

starefossenon Microsoft Israel chief leaves amid ethical controversy

Freedom is literally in their name. Can it be more core than that?

starefossenon VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage

Changes the defaults. Does not care to provide a pull request description. Talk about hubris.

starefossenon Soft launch of open-source code platform for government

Norwegian Government has a couple of thousand open repos for their code https://norwegian-public-organizations.vercel.app/

Most notably the Labor and Welfare Administration with 3000+ open repos.

starefossenon Norwegian Government (Nav) just crossed 3000 public repos on GitHub

The Labor and Welfare Administration (Nav) just crossed the 3000 mark for public repos on their GitHub account https://github.com/navikt

starefossenon Brunost: The Nynorsk Programming Language

Most of the source code for the Norwegian welfare system is published openly on https://github.com/navikt (4K repos)

starefossenon Brunost: The Nynorsk Programming Language

If you have not tasted brunost you should definitely try it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunost

starefossenon Slugging it Out in Open Source [video]

Love this way of story telling. Video definitely deserves more views!

starefossenon Quay.io down: Nginx 502 bad gateway

It is loading again. With a message at the top saying "Quay Container Registry is currently in read-only mode. Pulls and other read-only operations will succeed but all other operations are currently suspended."

starefossenon State of Platforms 2026: From Adoption to Accountability

This is the follow-up to our 2024 State of Platforms report. We ran the same survey twice, in late 2023 and late 2025, to track how platform engineering is evolving across the Norwegian public sector. The 2026 wave captured 45 organizations representing approximately 240,000 public sector employees and organizational budgets totaling 2.5 trillion NOK.

starefossenon Oh My Zsh adds bloat

Glad to see fish getting some shout outs here. Been using it for over ten years now, and it is super easy to get going on new hosts - it is just one simple install away.

starefossenon This page knows your battery charge level (unless you're using Firefox)

Same here.

starefossenon Slack Is Down

Status page is updated with ongoing incident: https://status.slack.com/2023-10/ad8f0e62516e8812

starefossenon Slack Is Down

Started working again for me (Norway)

starefossenon Open source hooliganism and the TypeScript meltdown

And they said Rails was a Ghetto…

starefossenon Show HN: Governments on GitHub

Here is a better list of Norwegian government agencies on GitHub https://github.com/MikAoJk/norwegian-public-organizations/tr...

starefossenon Show HN: Governments on GitHub

Great, but most of the Norwegian governments are missing. Here is a more up to date list https://github.com/MikAoJk/norwegian-public-organizations/tr...

starefossenon Technical issues plague Ron DeSantis’s campaign announcement on Twitter

Maybe Musk shouldn’t fired all the SREs!

starefossenon Public Money, Public Code

For us it is a matter of building trust and allowing others to help if they choose so. We don’t expect many outside contributions.

starefossenon Public Money, Public Code

Yes, we definitely do that! Talking about cake, can someone form HN make a pull request, please?!

starefossenon Public Money, Public Code

The Labor and Welfare Administration (NAV) of the Norwegian government is doing exactly that, we have been opening up our code since 2018 and are accepting pull requests across our 2000 public repositories from those who want to improve government services https://github.com/navikt this has also enabled a much more close collaboration between new and existing partners that was previously unheard of!

starefossenon Public Money, Public Code

The largest branch of the Norwegian government, Labor and Welfare Administration (NAV), have adopted this this policy since 2018 and now we have over 2000 public repositories on https://github.com/navikt and https://github.com/nais (last one is our platform organization)

starefossenon Gore-TEX, a lightweight, waterproof fabric made from the expanded form of PTFE

According to their FAQ page this only applies to products with a “guarantee to keep you dry” label inside.

https://www.gore-tex.com/support/frequently-asked-questions

starefossenon Gore-TEX, a lightweight, waterproof fabric made from the expanded form of PTFE

From what I have herd (but I was unable to find any written source at this point) the sampling only applies to the Gore-Tex Pro Shell brand. Meaning that products needs to be sent in and certified by Gore before they can be sold under that name.

starefossenon Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

For me it is how one person can suddenly own an entire social network and dictate the rules as he likes or dislikes. Mastodon it self is more open, the server you choose to sign up to might have content policies in place.