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.

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Glider: A single-node vector database with S3 as its only durable state

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

PalmOS Lemmings by Aaron Ardiri

github.com · 19 points · 4 comments

Mitos editor is a fork of Helix

mitos.computer · 23 points · 22 comments

CLI for your financial data (and Costco and Amazon)

kilianc.github.io · 2 points · 0 comments

Chest – a tiny, open-source menu bar manager for macOS 27

chest.boringbar.app · 3 points · 0 comments

Correct Hooks – Easy webhook auth with asymmetric signatures

github.com · 4 points · 2 comments

Pi-cowboy – use Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode as subagents

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Gecit, share a Windows PC's keyboard and mouse with a Mac over QUIC

kasparovabi.github.io · 2 points · 0 comments

US Rep proposes bill to give video game buyers "ownership," not "a license"

arstechnica.com · 10 points · 4 comments

MockForge – Lightweight, zero-dependency Python API and Webhook

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

RepRapMicron

github.com · 51 points · 7 comments

CallSitter – bot that answers my calls and wastes scammers' time

github.com · 5 points · 9 comments

How Far Will AI Assistants Go for a Refund They Can't Get?

vals.ai · 26 points · 10 comments

A forest's wildlife, synthesized live in Rust, playable in the browser

zaghaghi.github.io · 5 points · 0 comments

Open MicroManipulator – A sub-micrometer 3D motion control plattform

github.com · 28 points · 3 comments

It's time to talk about TEEs

alinush.github.io · 14 points · 2 comments

One Parser, Two Bugs, Many Routers: Exploiting Broadcom WiFi Across ECos, Linux

quentinkaiser.be · 7 points · 1 comments

Russia and US are discussing joint deals including on data centres

reuters.com · 4 points · 0 comments

JSynth – Visual Programming Editor for Julia

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Matthew Prince on why Cloudflare offers a free version and always will

webmasters.stackexchange.com · 32 points · 101 comments

500 clocks in one 6.3 MB HTML file by Opus 5.5

tkgally.github.io · 25 points · 19 comments

Cosplay as a tech lead, using gVisor to sandbox agents

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

NY announces game ownership bill requiring ownership rather than licensing

tomshardware.com · 25 points · 148 comments

MoroccoAPI: An open source API for Moroccan public data

moroccoapi.dev · 2 points · 0 comments

How do you deal with AI Output of your boss?

5 points · 9 comments

Russia moves possible anti-satellite near another satellite used by Ukraine

bsky.app · 16 points · 7 comments

Photos to Gaussian Splat inside your browser using DA3 Small

antoinemopa.github.io · 4 points · 0 comments

Anthropic says its AI model submitted a false case tip to Philadelphia police

nbcnews.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Codex is EATING my Mac's disk space

github.com · 7 points · 80 comments

Atari Gravitar in VR

gravitar-vr.github.io · 4 points · 0 comments