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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Running Kimi K3 on a M1 Mac

github.com · 23 points · 8 comments

CogniKernel; AI Coding with cross session and cross platform memory

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Anthropic publishes a practical key-recovery attack on HAWK-256

github.com · 13 points · 1 comments

Verifiable receipts for firmware CVE reproduction

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

OpenAI just open-sourced Codex Security

github.com · 66 points · 5 comments

China's AI weather warning system Mazu expanding across Global South

scmp.com · 5 points · 0 comments

I built a free, self-hosted CMMS called Workshop Control Center (WCC)

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Beacon – an open-source platform for comparing NASA/JPL and ESA NEO data

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Learning Mode – Claude refuses to write code

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Orb – Self-hosted AI assistant that messages you first

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Hulios: An eBPF-powered, transparent Tor gateway for Linux

github.com · 11 points · 0 comments

Uv 0.12.0

github.com · 75 points · 31 comments

Minute – Offline meeting notes on macOS with Whisper and llama.cpp

github.com · 7 points · 2 comments

What if useful AI is a fantasy?

lzon.ca · 9 points · 3 comments

Analysis of Opus 5's 'Contrition'

github.com · 6 points · 0 comments

Writekin – fine-tune a local LLM on your own writing, on your Mac

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Chip stocks tumble as AI sell-off deepens

ft.com · 31 points · 5 comments

Distilling proprietary model reasoning into open-source search agents

arxiv.org · 4 points · 0 comments

American Red Cross: 2nd-Ever Blood Supply Crisis, Urges Immediate Donations

redcross.org · 3 points · 1 comments

Coding Tools MCP (v0.2.2):Give any AI chat or agent a pair of hands on your code

github.com · 11 points · 0 comments

Encryption for YouTube Videos++

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Cynative – Read-only CLI in Go that explains your live infrastructure

github.com · 11 points · 4 comments

Airbus A350 jet flies 24 hours nonstop from Australia to France

reuters.com · 9 points · 4 comments

Income of the poorest decile, the median, and the richest decile in the US

ourworldindata.org · 5 points · 1 comments

DocSlicer – Structure-aware PDF/DOCX/PPTX parser, 31 pages/sec on CPU

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

XY – A Fast, composable, GPU-accelerated interactive plotting library

github.com · 87 points · 32 comments

'It sounds like someone set up a vacuum ': Michigan residents sue AI DC

tomshardware.com · 10 points · 0 comments

Open-source, Long-horizon cite-able memory for multi-agent systems

github.com · 3 points · 1 comments

So, you want to make a game engine (2023)

lisyarus.github.io · 49 points · 30 comments

News headline inside coding agent

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments