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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Rdio – an open-source internet radio control suite

rdio-docs.vercel.app · 13 points · 3 comments

Gnat – self-hosted analytics as a single Go binary with MCP server

github.com · 5 points · 0 comments

Ntfy – open-source Push to Mobile

ntfy.sh · 51 points · 31 comments

Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?

mun-logadan.github.io · 4 points · 1 comments

RAGless – similar to RAG, but $0 LLM API costs at runtime

github.com · 4 points · 6 comments

OpenComplAI – open-source EU AI Act compliance checks in CI/CD

github.com · 7 points · 0 comments

New DeepSeek Pricing Published (Peak and Off-Peak)

4 points · 3 comments

There Is Still No Silver Bullet

cekrem.github.io · 6 points · 2 comments

ECS Lua

nidorx.github.io · 3 points · 0 comments

Speeding Up (Small) Ruby Hashes

byroot.github.io · 74 points · 0 comments

Control Claude Code, Codex, Pi and Gemini CLI from Telegram

github.com · 4 points · 2 comments

Lumabri – Run Moe Models on a P2P Swarm with Colibri

github.com · 44 points · 18 comments

Auto-train the harness, not the LLM. cross-model, cross-benchmark gains

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

TRS-80 Color Computer Extended Basic Emulator in JavaScript

github.com · 15 points · 2 comments

YazSes – offline hold-to-talk voice dictation for Linux/macOS/Windows

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Seoul soars past Dubai as busiest international airport

ft.com · 6 points · 0 comments

Chestnut – eGPU dock with open-source firmware

hwbusters.com · 14 points · 1 comments

Oneiric – an open-source AI short film [video]

youtube.com · 3 points · 0 comments

DynaFX – Simulation meets knowledge graphs

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Bsdkrun – Instant MicroVMs/Unikernels for macOS and Linux

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Silver Lake in talks to buy Workday, sources say

reuters.com · 16 points · 3 comments

Defining Taste

twitter.com · 3 points · 1 comments

Single log line is 49KB+ (ext4) / 110KB+ (btrfs) of systemd-journald disk writes

github.com · 140 points · 90 comments

HN: Xenon, open source dashboard for a second screen, tablet or phone

xenon-app.com · 15 points · 4 comments

ESP-Claw

github.com · 14 points · 5 comments

OxiSH: SSH Server Written in Rust

github.com · 22 points · 2 comments

Cross-Validation From Scratch and a Surprise at n=100

kenkoonwong.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Tired of hand-writing fake API data, so I built a CLI for it

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Sued-rs – a fake demonic oracle for the terminal, in Rust

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

X open sources its ranking algo, letting users see if they've been shadowbanned

techcrunch.com · 7 points · 1 comments