All topics

Open Source stories

Open source powers most of modern software. This page tracks license changes, maintainer burnout, funding models, and the projects Hacker News considers worth contributing to or depending on.

From GitHub stars to foundation governance debates, these stories shape how the developer community thinks about shared infrastructure.

1801 stories archived · Page 1 of 61

RSS feed for Open Source

NeoBrowser: An MCP server that drives real Chrome with your logged-in sessions

github.com · 8 points · 1 comments

Figranium – Dockerized, API-first, block-based browser automation

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Stunt – a stunt double for the APIs you integrate (95 adapters)

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

I canceled my AI code reviewer and wrote a free local one

github.com · 3 points · 2 comments

Rataflow – React Flow, but for the Terminal (Rust/Ratatui)

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

A local MitM proxy to control TLS fingerprints

github.com · 5 points · 0 comments

Europe Robotics Map – An open source map of robotics companies

europeroboticsmap.com · 2 points · 0 comments

PhysiClaw – an AI agent that physically operates an iPhone

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

A searchable index of GitHub's lists that shows what's dead

awesome.donld.me · 2 points · 0 comments

Engrava – a local graph memory database for AI agents (SQLite, MIT)

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

State Farm defense lawyers admit AI generated fake cases in LA lawsuit

calmatters.org · 6 points · 1 comments

AirStats – Mac menu bar system monitor, 0.046% CPU idle, MIT

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM

pixelcluster.dev · 223 points · 60 comments

I built an M2M payment loop where AI Agents pay for data via x402

github.com · 5 points · 0 comments

Convex clients in 100 programming languages

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Agents Workbook watch Claude Code, Codex write down their working notes

github.com · 3 points · 2 comments

Vyral – Portable contracts for data, retrieval, durable work, and MCP

github.com · 3 points · 1 comments

Micron, SK Commit Billions to RAM Capacity, but Almost Nothing Lands Before 2028

storagereview.com · 21 points · 3 comments

Elon Musk's GitHub alternative couldn't have arrived at a worse time for GitHub

neowin.net · 6 points · 1 comments

Prime Agent: A Self-Improving RLM Agent

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

A benchmark for AI agent guardrails that caught my own plugin

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Graphlib -- A new way to create directional graphs in C++

github.com · 4 points · 1 comments

Elon Musk's GitHub alternative couldn't have arrived at a worse time for GitHub

neowin.net · 4 points · 0 comments

GitHub degradation affects Cursor Origin, its new Git platform

status.cursor.com · 54 points · 20 comments

HarnessRouter: Unified interface for agent harnesses

github.com · 9 points · 11 comments

Declarative-forms – await an object the way prompt() awaits a string

wolfoo2931.github.io · 4 points · 0 comments

Visimer – open-source visual editor for Mermaid diagrams

github.com · 14 points · 1 comments

Tim O'Reilly – Why Open Source Matters for AI

oreillyradar.substack.com · 12 points · 0 comments

Open-source comment section widget, Disqus alternative

github.com · 3 points · 2 comments

Llama.cpp v0.1.0

github.com · 34 points · 8 comments