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 SourceAI's potential climate benefits outweighed by role in boosting fossil fuels
theguardian.com · 4 points · 0 comments
Four Years Ago, a Crypto Boss Went Missing. Now His Successor Has
nytimes.com · 58 points · 16 comments
Dictata – Local Whisper dictation with LLM cleanup
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Small Models Can Introspect, Too (2025)
vgel.me · 5 points · 0 comments
MartyPC is a cross-platform emulator of early PCs written in Rust
martypc.net · 8 points · 0 comments
How to archive Everything and share It
aramzs.github.io · 15 points · 3 comments
LayoutLens: AI-Powered Visual UI Testing
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Nice Licence – An anti-copyleft permissive licence
github.com · 2 points · 1 comments
NanoGPT Speedrun
github.com · 5 points · 1 comments
Hacker News RSS
hnrss.github.io · 3 points · 0 comments
A look at CrossPoint e-reader firmware
lwn.net · 4 points · 0 comments
What's the current best research/understanding of healthy weight loss?
2 points · 1 comments
Built a CLI to find and disable telemetry for package.json dependencies
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
QEMU, now with almost full NeXT Black/M68K hardware support
github.com · 5 points · 0 comments
Longtime Linux CIFS/SMB3 Maintainer Steps Down
phoronix.com · 5 points · 1 comments
Wildfires across Europe detonate forgotten World War bombs
independent.co.uk · 17 points · 1 comments
3D Engine for Rust Programs
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
I make my AI agents file paperwork before they're allowed to code
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
A Ruby IDE running on a microcontroller
github.com · 3 points · 0 comments
Apple lays off 200 people across Vision Pro and Siri teams
9to5mac.com · 7 points · 0 comments
PgExtAssure – pre-admission security evidence for PostgreSQL extensions
github.com · 5 points · 0 comments
I reverse-engineered Bambu's 3MF color format so GLB keeps the colors
github.com · 3 points · 1 comments
Front end skill pack for AI agents, with machine-enforced quality gates
krishna-modi12.github.io · 5 points · 0 comments
Never Be Angry at Work
seangoedecke.com · 33 points · 14 comments
Meta $1.4T threat could mean 'turning in the keys and walking away'
fortune.com · 10 points · 2 comments
I let an subagent workflow refactor my codebase for three days
github.com · 7 points · 2 comments
ServerKit - Self-hosted control panel for apps, Docker, and databases
github.com · 3 points · 0 comments
Heimdall – Trust-verified knowledge layer for AI coding agents
github.com · 4 points · 0 comments
Mockup Nvidia GPUs on Linux systems
github.com · 4 points · 1 comments
Linus: "A debug session from hell, enormously helped by an AI"
github.com · 10 points · 1 comments