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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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AI'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