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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RSS feed for Open SourceBlue-Collar Jobs Are the New Flashpoint in Data-Center Fight
wsj.com · 8 points · 0 comments
Trump's Working to Give Part of Yosemite to a Private Developer
notus.org · 17 points · 5 comments
OpenLayer – local Photoshop plugin for ComfyUI (inpaint/outpaint demo)
github.com · 7 points · 0 comments
Get agents to do what I want with code documentation
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
I built a pure-Rust headless browser without Chromium or V8 (500+ GitHub stars)
reddit.com · 4 points · 0 comments
Ramanujan-computing: use idle computation to run scientific computing
github.com · 3 points · 0 comments
Survey shows Americans have turned against license plate tracking cameras
washingtonpost.com · 13 points · 0 comments
Some conservationists are helping to restore Africa’s wild dog populations
smithsonianmag.com · 61 points · 24 comments
Grith – syscall-level supervision for AI coding agents on Linux
github.com · 4 points · 0 comments
Get your Windows license refund
en.refund4freedom.org · 625 points · 254 comments
The Finn – an agent that lives in my router and complains about it
github.com · 27 points · 8 comments
KHMS – a file-based long-term memory an LLM agent installs into itself
github.com · 10 points · 0 comments
The Loss of Changelogs
amxmln.com · 21 points · 8 comments
EPA says power for data centers can sidestep pollution laws
epa.gov · 231 points · 242 comments
cdai cli – cd with Intent
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Interactive pattern discovery in binaries (FF-16-TUI)
github.com · 30 points · 3 comments
A Badass Way to Connect Programs Togther What Is OSC?
joearms.github.io · 18 points · 3 comments
Terry Rozier and the Teleprompt Operator
iainschmitt.com · 14 points · 5 comments
Loofah, meeting transcription into a local Markdown vault
github.com · 4 points · 0 comments
Migrating to HTTPX2
github.com · 209 points · 97 comments
HTTPX2 – A next-generation HTTP client for Python
github.com · 106 points · 35 comments
SubSmith – Turn your own videos into language-learning material
subsmith.app · 32 points · 37 comments
Scheduled Claude Code agents that cost nothing on a quiet day
github.com · 3 points · 1 comments
MicroSD card torture test reveal SanDisk as the outlier: 6 fails of the 7 tested
tomshardware.com · 7 points · 1 comments
Use Spot Instance Fearlessly
github.com · 3 points · 0 comments
Beckon, distinct sounds for what your AI coding agent needs
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
FnScribe – Open-source, offline dictation for macOS
github.com · 17 points · 8 comments
Understudy: Scenario Testing for AI Agents
github.com · 3 points · 0 comments
Hugging Face is selling a cute $399 open source duck robot, Microduck
techcrunch.com · 6 points · 1 comments
IndexFlow – Open-source indexing infrastructure built with Rust
github.com · 22 points · 6 comments