The open-sourcing of the X's feed algorithm is a typical Musk's smokescreen. First, while the code was open sourced, the configs and data that determines its behavior wasn't. Any researcher that has some knowledge of the matter will tell you this. Second, that code was last updated in July 2023 [1]. News feed algorithms are updated regularly, especially around the time of US elections [2]. [1] - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

Sure it's open source but that doesn't mean the public repo is in any way up to date. Especially given that the repos only have a handful of commits from the few months after the repos were published and they haven't been updated in well over a year. https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

> Wasn’t the tweet recommendation system “open sourced” as well? Does this guy know the difference between open source and “open source”? What do you mean? There exists only one binding definition of open source > https://opensource.org/osd and either some product does satisfy it, or it doesn't. As far as I am aware > https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

Yes, and it's here: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm If e.g. Amazon open sources some part of its software infrastructure should they also open source the data it uses or their configuration files? - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

And I believe the source for that was effectively opened up to the world: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm. Source: almost 2 years ago

Yep, I still use XMMS. There is also qmmp[1] for a Qt based player. And I think Audacious[2] still has a classic winamp interface, although it's not the default anymore. [1] https://qmmp.ylsoftware.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

I love QMMP ( https://qmmp.ylsoftware.com/ ). It is compatible with Winamp Skins, supports network playing (shoutcast) and works pretty well in my Linux Mint installations. I may be old fashioned, but man my brain has got so much "muscle memory" on years and years of Winamp use during the 90s ... I cannot live without stuff like equalizers, visualization plugins, Last.FM scrobbing and even automated track... - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

Qmmp is still being developed: https://qmmp.ylsoftware.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

Https://qmmp.ylsoftware.com/ already exists, though. - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

Fun fact there is also a free open source winamp inspired muisc player called qmmp for Linux and Windows that supports winamp skins as well. http://qmmp.ylsoftware.com/. Source: almost 2 years ago