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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-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

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