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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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Six government passport CAs that Python rejects and OpenSSL accepts

github.com · 7 points · 1 comments

Codegraff

github.com · 9 points · 1 comments

Disenchantment with the Post-AI Internet

lukesmith.xyz · 37 points · 5 comments

De-Spark, migrate a GitHub Spark export off the private SDK

deespark.space · 2 points · 0 comments

Kudu – A TUI VM Manager on Linux

github.com · 5 points · 0 comments

In Hilbert Space, All Things Are Quantumly Possible

quantamagazine.org · 10 points · 1 comments

AI scientist builds an open-source Codex Micro from scratch for $40

iluvatarlabs.com · 4 points · 0 comments

How about delayed MIT/GPL?

2 points · 1 comments

Chroncal – A TUI for Calendar

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Tailcat – Like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane

github.com · 419 points · 78 comments

An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation

lwn.net · 255 points · 113 comments

YouTube Format IDs

gist.github.com · 87 points · 44 comments

I get 25 deeply researched ideas from 19 agents with one single prompt

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Rudder – Red-Green TDD Workflow for Verifiably Comprehensive Specs

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

The Harness Is the Thing

scott-fryxell.github.io · 205 points · 122 comments

SSH Session Monitor – read-only Windows OpenSSH monitoring

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Intellectual Wastelands

nicknash.github.io · 4 points · 0 comments

eInk Optimized Manga with Kindle Comic Converter (+Kobo/KOreader)

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Meta to pay $17B in social media settlement with states

calmatters.org · 6 points · 1 comments

Radian UI a copy-paste React components with a synced Figma kit

radianui.com · 2 points · 1 comments

SiloBrief – Selectively export code context from air-gapped networks

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Disruption with Some GitHub Services

githubstatus.com · 68 points · 33 comments

Highball – Run Windows games on Apple Silicon, with an open game db

github.com · 5 points · 0 comments

GitHub Actions Is Down

githubstatus.com · 25 points · 8 comments

TypeScript compile-time dice rolls

github.com · 3 points · 3 comments

TexLite – A lightweight self-hosted LaTeX workspace

github.com · 21 points · 1 comments

AurionMail: E2EE suite (CryptPad/Stalwart) with single-password UX

github.com · 32 points · 4 comments

Hover Proximity Using Modern CSS

blog.master.dev · 17 points · 0 comments

Putting mice into hibernation causes a major loss of synapses

arstechnica.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Shelf Protocol – Robots.txt for Commerce

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments