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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Job listings scraped daily from 8k company career pages

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Kadō – open-source habit tracker for iOS

github.com · 5 points · 1 comments

PageSieve, a web scraping browser extension

julius383.github.io · 17 points · 1 comments

A public AI whose memory is shared across all users

wildstatic.com · 69 points · 55 comments

A recipe for drone racing with reinforcement learning

mrandri19.github.io · 28 points · 4 comments

A pre-execution guard that stops AI agents running destructive commands

github.com · 5 points · 2 comments

TrueMath – An open-source exact symbolic math tool

3 points · 1 comments

Use tl;draw inside Org-mode

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Grafana agent observability for Hermes Agent

github.com · 27 points · 0 comments

RAPx: A static analysis tool for Rust programs

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

PyScrappy, self-healing web scraping selectors plus an MCP server

github.com · 18 points · 1 comments

What happens when an LLM never sees material beyond fifth grade?

littlelearner-ll.github.io · 243 points · 208 comments

Laptop is the last place your secrets are still in plaintext

github.com · 11 points · 3 comments

ProofRun – a local verification receipt for AI coding agents

github.com · 5 points · 0 comments

Widen, a native Postgres GUI using Apple's on-device LLM

github.com · 9 points · 0 comments

Big Pickle on SWE Atlas – Codebase QnA

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Tea5767-Radio-Tuner

github.com · 57 points · 4 comments

Snafu: Agentic flow to help you with "naming things" in source code

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Xteink's tiny e-readers are getting access to free books through Libby

theverge.com · 11 points · 0 comments

Neo: A distraction-free word processor for authors, by a wannabe author

github.com · 5 points · 2 comments

Live Claude Usage HUD for a $38 Thermalright Trofeo Vision LCD

github.com · 14 points · 6 comments

Tracking down a Zsh history data loss bug

michael.stapelberg.ch · 31 points · 4 comments

The unlikely opera star: How AI helped a nonspeaking performer find his voice

scientificamerican.com · 5 points · 0 comments

Why tech bosses keep sharing their manifestos about AI

bbc.com · 12 points · 27 comments

Every MUNI, BART and Caltrain in SF on a Live Map

github.com · 5 points · 0 comments

Awesome CAD – Curated List of Open-Source CAD Projects

github.com · 7 points · 0 comments

Tess's Android Wayland Compositor

github.com · 7 points · 0 comments

sce (Simple Console Editor)

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Fossilisation processes and our reading of animal antiquity

cell.com · 9 points · 0 comments

BriskDB

github.com · 21 points · 5 comments