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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At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme Disease diagnosis

smithsonianmag.com · 171 points · 58 comments

Splitting a Git Commit

blog.gnoack.org · 59 points · 30 comments

Quasicrystals Animation Playground with WebXR

hypnagogic-quasicrystals.github.io · 40 points · 13 comments

Could a computer scientist build a brain?

stankerstjens.github.io · 88 points · 67 comments

Back In Time 2.0.0 – Release Candidate 1

github.com · 6 points · 1 comments

HyperOSUnfucker is an Android app that unlocks hidden system performance

github.com · 11 points · 3 comments

Evolve: An incremental game about evolving a civilization

pmotschmann.github.io · 4 points · 1 comments

z486: A 486-Class Pipelined FPGA CPU with Integrated Floating-Point

nand2mario.github.io · 4 points · 1 comments

I spent 3 months making desktop automation stop lying to AI agents

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

ThoughtDAG – An editable context graph for LLM conversations

chenxiachan.github.io · 37 points · 12 comments

I serve my website with a swarm of ESP32 microcontrollers on a shelf

github.com · 14 points · 7 comments

Nvidia Downsizes Plans for $250B Guarantee of OpenAI Data Center

wsj.com · 7 points · 0 comments

Nvidia discloses $21B stake in SpaceX

ft.com · 15 points · 2 comments

Dictata – Local Whisper dictation with LLM cleanup

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Nikon F100 Film Camera Repair Notes

github.com · 3 points · 1 comments

I made the fastest open source CAD renderer in the world

twitter.com · 7 points · 1 comments

Macsomnia – close your MacBook lid while keeping long jobs alive

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Kvcachescope – Why Nvidia-smi is blind to vLLM KV cache leaks

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

RISC-V: They should have known better

dmitry.gr · 125 points · 91 comments

Wevna – Local-first runtime dashboard for Node.js back ends

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Made a business license hub search tool

fernway.io · 2 points · 1 comments

Mocktail – Free, open-source mock API server with a built-in dashboard

getmocktail.com · 5 points · 0 comments

Jane Street has paid up large to avoid its numbers leaking out

ft.com · 5 points · 0 comments

E3d-pilot – a repo-improving agent harness, SHA-gated merges

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Agentic Task Management

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

High-Performance Array-Backed LRU Hash Table

github.com · 7 points · 0 comments

Getting review comments out of Overleaf, and into the PDF

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Mole – Deep research agent for your terminal

github.com · 26 points · 6 comments

Being Against LLMs Is Against the Spirit of Floss

joarvarndt.se · 13 points · 10 comments

Open-source and AI native web analytics

github.com · 5 points · 0 comments