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 SourceAgentSight – eBPF observability for AI agents, no code changes
github.com · 16 points · 0 comments
A desktop fly drawn to the scent of vibecode
github.com · 20 points · 11 comments
MindShield v1.1.5 – Local AI guardrails tuned to reduce false positives
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
How I came to write that paper with Leslie Lamport
lawrencecpaulson.github.io · 58 points · 11 comments
A coding-agent workbench built around Matt Pocock's coding workflow
github.com · 5 points · 3 comments
Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article
github.com · 301 points · 191 comments
CLI to Churn Out CLIs
github.com · 3 points · 0 comments
Organizational Cognition: Why the Next AI Moat Won't Be Intelligence
chinmayrelkar.github.io · 3 points · 0 comments
Zig’s Io.Threaded is neat
matklad.github.io · 147 points · 91 comments
Is GitHub Down Again?
11 points · 7 comments
DeepSeek Harness in VSCode
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Diffview, a fast Git diff viewer written in Rust
github.com · 3 points · 1 comments
Agent Office (Slack for AI Agents) – Similar to Grok Bot but older
github.com · 6 points · 1 comments
SkyRoads (1993) reverse-engineered and ported natively to macOS
github.com · 4 points · 0 comments
WaveHouse: Open-source real-time API gateway for ClickHouse
wavehouse.dev · 7 points · 0 comments
Waltier – a generalized version of Cursor's S3 WAL
github.com · 3 points · 0 comments
Mcploitable – The "Metasploitable" of the Model Context Protocol
github.com · 2 points · 1 comments
How do you keep notes organized across long-running side projects?
4 points · 1 comments
Do teams really need to use GitHub?
4 points · 0 comments
Bandai don't sue me please
github.com · 6 points · 0 comments
Local design and video editor with in-browser 4K MP4 export
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
ContextForge – context engineering platform for AI-assisted development
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Lunar, a coding harness extensible with Lua
github.com · 5 points · 2 comments
Kino: A high-performance Ractor web server for Ruby 4.0
github.com · 11 points · 1 comments
Interactive PostgreSQL Permissions
thepartly.github.io · 2 points · 2 comments
Can you tell Wodehouse from a model imitating Wodehouse?
voxoria.ai · 3 points · 0 comments
Emacs 31.1 will release on 8/24
github.com · 36 points · 7 comments
Better Batteries
matklad.github.io · 14 points · 9 comments
Seed: Minimal, self-modifying agent harness
github.com · 16 points · 3 comments
California Draws More Startup Investment Than All Other 49 States Combined
wsj.com · 6 points · 4 comments