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 SourceGitHub Has an Availability Problem. Is It Time to Look Elsewhere?
dhruv2038.bearblog.dev · 61 points · 30 comments
Flock-style scanners now track WiFi/Bluetooth identity from devices in your car
techradar.com · 28 points · 12 comments
Is GitHub Fried Today?
4 points · 5 comments
UL-SMF – Open-source linear-complexity ~300x KV-cache compression
github.com · 6 points · 0 comments
Ahmad on X: "Anthropic's War on open source AI" / X
twitter.com · 7 points · 0 comments
GitHub employees what's going on? Why?
77 points · 59 comments
Eve Software Factory
github.com · 10 points · 4 comments
AI-Generated GitHub Copilot "Autofix" Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira
wiz.io · 29 points · 8 comments
Apple's App Tracking Transparency treated its own apps better than rivals
bundeskartellamt.de · 71 points · 16 comments
Alternatives to GitHub
88 points · 58 comments
Incident with Github.com
githubstatus.com · 460 points · 372 comments
GitHub down again? no PR access
142 points · 42 comments
Tell HN: GitHub Is Experiencing Degraded Performance
90 points · 26 comments
A theory for decades of C vulnerabilities
strawberry9.github.io · 36 points · 21 comments
Pi coding agent: config folder is out of place on Linux
github.com · 25 points · 8 comments
Rex, a parallel functional language for scientific workflows
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Linear algebra done right
linear.axler.net · 281 points · 116 comments
Prolly: A content-addressed ordered map built on prolly trees
github.com · 13 points · 0 comments
Legbar – live AI agent sessions beside GitHub CI, in one terminal
github.com · 4 points · 0 comments
Failure Takes Years to Admit
julienreszka.com · 7 points · 1 comments
SolidSync – Poorman's Solidworks PDM
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Why is the GitHub trending page weirdly excluding DeepSeek projects?
8 points · 0 comments
The Case Against Formal Verification, 50 Years Later
ivan-gavran.github.io · 82 points · 87 comments
WireDoctor – Spring Boot startup and bean cycle analyzer
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent
math-ai-org.github.io · 64 points · 19 comments
Invasive beetle is spreading across the world. It's costing economies billions
cnn.com · 5 points · 0 comments
Flynt.js – 2.2kb, zero-build, CSP-safe reactivity library for MPAs
github.com · 8 points · 1 comments
Sectorforth is a 16-bit x86 Forth that fits in a 512-byte boot sector
github.com · 13 points · 2 comments
If your agent commits a crime, who is responsible?
signalbloom.ai · 37 points · 104 comments
Sib - Unixy LLM Client using Git to store converastions, instead SQLite
github.com · 4 points · 0 comments