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.
2737 stories archived · Page 20 of 92
RSS feed for Open SourceLatticeDB – Like SQLite but for graph databases
github.com · 89 points · 28 comments
Is this the limit of what a solo founder can build?
limitpixel.com · 2 points · 2 comments
Offer discounts and get more visitors
outdiscount.lol · 2 points · 0 comments
Player vs. Computer – fight your computer in my web game
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
JeopardyGithub: GitHub Repo to Jeopardy Game
jeopardygithub.com · 4 points · 3 comments
Searching for optimal strategies in a puzzle game with chance (Drop7)
drop7.dev · 3 points · 0 comments
Orbit - One agent across many repos: real worktrees, no index
github.com · 3 points · 0 comments
I made a Raspberry with Qwen my local car AI
github.com · 75 points · 16 comments
Sort branches by last commit date
ryangreenberg.com · 50 points · 13 comments
Red-team LLM reasoning and agent actions (honest scoring, local-first)
github.com · 4 points · 0 comments
Should GitHub downtimes impact considering Golang for a new project?
2 points · 2 comments
Walgit leans on S3 primitives but has classic distsys bugs
twitter.com · 4 points · 0 comments
Codes – typed application outcomes for Kotlin and Java
github.com · 5 points · 2 comments
Turn any website into a CLI for AI agents (142x fewer tokens than HTML)
github.com · 3 points · 0 comments
Anthropic tells staff to work from home due to possible security team strike
businessinsider.com · 56 points · 58 comments
Open-source AMDGCN kernels for optimizing LLM inference
github.com · 5 points · 0 comments
GitHub Dashboard aka GitBiased
4 points · 4 comments
Sktime-CLI A command line tool to do all time-series tasks
github.com · 3 points · 0 comments
OpenAI restores 5-hour Codex and Work limits for ChatGPT Plus users
9to5mac.com · 95 points · 97 comments
"Flying Toasters!" reverse-engineered 1:1, in the browser
backslasher.github.io · 4 points · 1 comments
GNU radio switching to MIT licence
gnuradio.org · 3 points · 0 comments
HelloAssembly The smallest possible complete Windows application
github.com · 55 points · 32 comments
Shepherdr – A mobile-first web UI for agents on Herdr
github.com · 2 points · 1 comments
Dotenv-Diff v3.4.0
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
MajinBook = Anna's Archive and Goodreads
github.com · 6 points · 0 comments
Not a natural calamity: it is being done to us knowingly
theguardian.com · 40 points · 21 comments
Screen memory without screenshots, just text to Markdown
github.com · 61 points · 25 comments
Box of 300 Love Letters Showed Up, What Whimsical WWII Soldier Who Wrote Them?
smithsonianmag.com · 40 points · 8 comments
Pyrift – static analyser for silent Python/PyPy behaviour differences
github.com · 3 points · 1 comments
GitMir – an open source IDE that fixes your Claude development
ide.gitmir.com · 4 points · 1 comments