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 SourceEU AI Act becomes applicable Aug 2: an engineering checklist
conformityengineering.com · 7 points · 0 comments
Graphene can hold multiple states of superconductivity, a new study finds
news.mit.edu · 8 points · 0 comments
Convergo – plan/build review loops for coding agents
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
JPMorgan, BofA and Others Explore Buying Card Network to Raise Debit-Card Fees
wsj.com · 37 points · 17 comments
SpaceX Shares Stumble in Nasdaq-100 Debut
wsj.com · 16 points · 2 comments
OCR Buddy: local browser OCR for code, formulas (LaTeX) and tables
github.com · 5 points · 0 comments
Workflowy but Open Source
twitter.com · 6 points · 4 comments
Backlog – tasks and contexts manager for AI coding agents
github.com · 4 points · 0 comments
New Research: A "Verified" GitHub Commit Is Not Unique
internationalcyberdigest.com · 7 points · 0 comments
LOL Storage Bug on Microsoft Windows 11 Could Eat Up 500 GB Disk Space
itsfoss.com · 12 points · 1 comments
CLRK, an open-source agent runtime with gVisor and MitM guardrails
github.com · 4 points · 0 comments
Bike4Mind – open-core AI workbench; any model, agents, RAG, self-host
github.com · 3 points · 2 comments
My Approach to HTML Obfuscation
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Is GitHub preparing to go behind a login wall?
50 points · 35 comments
PL/Ruby: Ruby as a procedural language for PostgreSQL (functions, triggers, SPI)
github.com · 6 points · 0 comments
HTMLDrive – serve HTML files from your Google Drive
html-drive.com · 4 points · 0 comments
Humanize – Best static AI text humanizer, based on 50 research papers
github.com · 3 points · 0 comments
FlowHook – a file watcher that knows if your build passed or failed
github.com · 3 points · 2 comments
Baerly-storage, a document DB that runs per request, no DB server
github.com · 16 points · 1 comments
Court tosses Microsoft's appeal in pre-owned software licenses battle
theregister.com · 31 points · 2 comments
Make good open-source products, but how to get user?
5 points · 8 comments
ttyd – Share your terminal over the web
github.com · 5 points · 2 comments
Signal for LLM – The Modulator Architecture (Theory Complete)
divinecanon.github.io · 2 points · 0 comments
FastCRW: 6MB binary self-hosted Firecrawl alternative
github.com · 3 points · 1 comments
Refloow Geo Forensics 1.4 – Local EXIF extraction and timeline mapping
github.com · 3 points · 0 comments
DoodleMeme – Animate Hand Drawings Without Generative AI
doodlemate.com · 4 points · 0 comments
Action-locker: pin, verify, and vendor GHAs
github.com · 3 points · 1 comments
SOCBench – an open benchmark for AI on SoC tasks
github.com · 6 points · 0 comments
Equalizer – a real-time terminal equalizer for raw PCM pipes
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
TraceGen – realistic OpenTelemetry traces, incl. AI-agent, one binary
github.com · 3 points · 0 comments