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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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LatticeDB – 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