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.
2727 stories archived · Page 17 of 91
RSS feed for Open SourceAgentMachinist, issue to reviewed PR with a SHA-bound spec approval
github.com · 4 points · 0 comments
How HN: Qisutu – an open-source, self-hosted ticketing and service desk
github.com · 12 points · 2 comments
A TUI for Inspecting Snowflake Tasks
github.com · 3 points · 0 comments
AgentConnect, shared agents with separate permissions
github.com · 4 points · 0 comments
Otter: experimental multi-threaded JavaScript runtime written in Rust
github.com · 3 points · 0 comments
CueMap – deterministic-first memory retrieval for continuous recall
github.com · 3 points · 0 comments
DuckLabs to Join AWS, Projects to Remain Open Source – DuckDB
duckdb.org · 15 points · 1 comments
Meta to Pay Up to $17.1B in Settlement over Social Media Addiction Claims
nytimes.com · 7 points · 2 comments
A Man Who Saw Humanity from Two Billion Years Away
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu · 13 points · 1 comments
One endpoint between your AI and all your connections, memory, skills
github.com · 14 points · 1 comments
EBM Lens, searches biomedical papers, ranks evidence, grounds claims
github.com · 4 points · 0 comments
An 8.6 GB model that serves only 7 requests a second
mapathak-commits.github.io · 10 points · 4 comments
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Technical Report [pdf]
github.com · 33 points · 1 comments
fake-bpy-module – Blender/UPBGE Python autocompletion for external IDEs
github.com · 3 points · 0 comments
Kuma Voice – OSS Apple Watch voice assistant, no iPhone needed
github.com · 5 points · 2 comments
My open source project's donations no longer go through my bank account
spliit.app · 34 points · 3 comments
Chapter Zero – the machines Kubernetes The Hard Way asks you to bring
github.com · 3 points · 1 comments
ModelMRI – see inside a local LLM, VLM or robot policy while it runs
github.com · 4 points · 0 comments
X sends in the lawyers to shut down open source project
theregister.com · 89 points · 28 comments
Web Game "Player vs. Computer"
github.com · 3 points · 0 comments
Rsync for Windows Native Port
github.com · 6 points · 1 comments
Dependency graph and impact analysis for your GitHub repo
vast-neracu.vercel.app · 2 points · 0 comments
HQ – Your infrastructure as a colony on Mars (local, real data)
github.com · 7 points · 0 comments
Grid Data Explorer
open-energy-transition.github.io · 4 points · 1 comments
PepsiCo Scraps Coverage of Weight-Loss Drugs for Employees
bloomberg.com · 7 points · 0 comments
Axera AX8850 LLM running ggufs
github.com · 5 points · 0 comments
A local tool that logs every time you swear at your AI coding assistant
github.com · 7 points · 4 comments
Vyukov MPSC queue in C++20 with a six-claim formal memory-model proof
github.com · 3 points · 0 comments
A spy satellite simulator in the browser, except the data is real
github.com · 12 points · 2 comments
As CTE Cases Soar, Why Do Football Crowds Still Go Wild?
nytimes.com · 3 points · 0 comments