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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Server hardening playbook where every item is failure/fix/verify

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Coop – Isolated VM Environments for Running Claude Code and Codex

github.com · 7 points · 1 comments

Lantunnel – a P2P-first private mesh for reaching your LANs

github.com · 4 points · 1 comments

Mother convicted of: her 5 yo walks short way to pond alone in Virginia

washingtonpost.com · 25 points · 17 comments

Emacs/Wayland Window Manager in pure elisp

github.com · 4 points · 1 comments

Tinkering with J Space

darshanmakwana412.github.io · 6 points · 0 comments

ripwire: ripgrep of AI context (CLI+MCP) giving coding agents a map of any repo

github.com · 7 points · 2 comments

How I make games in Batch Script: Multithreading

github.com · 5 points · 1 comments

Aardman (Wallace and Gromit) Is Selling Its Original Movie Puppets

gizmodo.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Americans Without Degrees Are Having One of the Best Job Markets in Years

wsj.com · 6 points · 2 comments

MathKernel: An evidence-aware multi-engine mathematics kernel and MCP server

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Hard-Chat – A serverless, RAM-only P2P terminal chat

github.com · 6 points · 1 comments

Far-right AfD wins historic victory in German state election

reuters.com · 6 points · 1 comments

Mador – Make any DOM reactive with a tiny 80-line Proxy state tuple

github.com · 41 points · 16 comments

Sol, my macOS music player and jukebox app, is now free and open source

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Human archive: They were only human

sayyss.github.io · 11 points · 4 comments

Firefox extension that makes Reddit Old again, no account required

github.com · 6 points · 2 comments

Following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue

github.com · 218 points · 51 comments

Nitter is unarchived and will continue

github.com · 162 points · 45 comments

Cultivating Trust

kaeruct.github.io · 5 points · 1 comments

Kadō – open-source habit tracker, with non-binary habit score, for iOS

github.com · 29 points · 8 comments

QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes

beige.party · 730 points · 127 comments

Dsnitch – Real-time, zero-config Docker egress inspector via eBPF

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

I stopped using an LLM gateway and put rate-limits/fallback in-process

github.com · 3 points · 1 comments

Chinese banks purchasing Treasuries after wooing dollar deposits

reuters.com · 3 points · 0 comments

New all in one 6502 computer (Neo6502kbd)

olimex.wordpress.com · 6 points · 0 comments

Musk's Inner Circle Is Pouring Cash into Making Psychedelics Mainstream

wsj.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Pigeon, a signed Pass for what a sub-agent may do

github.com · 6 points · 4 comments

Wayfinder – A reference implementation for evaluating AI applications

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

I Changed My License

bergie.iki.fi · 45 points · 45 comments