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 SourceSix 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