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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Dayan Agent Skills, open control layers for agent workflows

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Free MIT Courses for When You're Craving Libraries, Lectures, and Big Ideas

rakowwwski.substack.com · 6 points · 0 comments

Slnmap – Roslyn-based code graph MCP server for .NET codebases

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Kavkash – An Atuin inspired history engine built with stock Linux utils

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Bough – a coding agent that writes a program per turn, not tool calls

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Tss – Simple Tailscale Host Selector command-line tool

github.com · 2 points · 1 comments

Kery – comments on your PR with a video of the feature working

github.com · 2 points · 1 comments

License plate reader searches should require a warrant

andrewpwheeler.com · 258 points · 157 comments

iDrive Ads

tumbledry.org · 5 points · 1 comments

South Africa's Eskom targets data centre 'gold rush' for its power surplus

ft.com · 3 points · 2 comments

McDonald's built a 515-page dossier on one customer

wired.com · 18 points · 7 comments

Monkey see, monkey do – reproduce text via native OCR on macOS

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Cc-probeline – Claude Code status line with Fable limits and turn costs

github.com · 2 points · 1 comments

OpenMicroKbd: $40 open source alternative to Codex Micro Keyboard

openmicrokbd.org · 2 points · 0 comments

Why Tiny JPEGs Look Different in Chrome

guillaumetech.github.io · 116 points · 23 comments

I benchmarked my memory graph against Memora (0.831 vs. 0.801)

github.com · 4 points · 2 comments

Smarter Shell History for Zsh

github.com · 7 points · 1 comments

Aileaks – scan repos for leaked LLM reasoning-trace secrets

github.com · 3 points · 1 comments

Hallucinote, integrating Ableton and Claude Code

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Aakit – find every assumption your coding agent made, and which broke

github.com · 5 points · 1 comments

I took the calculator away from 50 LLMs and graded the arithmetic

github.com · 7 points · 2 comments

DejaVu – instant replay for Windows that survives crashes (160 KB exe)

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

2026 Eclipse Webcams

jonty.github.io · 513 points · 143 comments

GitHub project that showed all edits (somewhat proving human authorship)

3 points · 1 comments

5th Heat Dome Expands Across Europe: 40°C+ Target Western and Central Europe

severe-weather.eu · 87 points · 105 comments

A voice layer over my whole computer: shell, agents, mouse, keyboard

github.com · 3 points · 2 comments

FDA Admitted in Print That Nothing It Knows of Will Wash Cyclospora Off Lettuce

marlerblog.com · 17 points · 3 comments

A declarative, SwiftUI toolkit that renders to <canvas>

pixdeo.github.io · 3 points · 0 comments

BentoDesk – Elegant Windows desktop organizer powered by Rust

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

RoguePlanet Vulnerability Still Exploitable

github.com · 6 points · 0 comments