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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What I learned by putting GitHub Copilot behind a MitM proxy

lighthousenewsletter.com · 161 points · 24 comments

Moving integer division to floating-point is trivial

marc-b-reynolds.github.io · 10 points · 0 comments

France Bans Unsolicited Telemarketing Calls

nytimes.com · 27 points · 5 comments

Mcptoon – Token-efficient MCP CLI client

github.com · 71 points · 45 comments

ConfigLedger -Find configuration drift across code, CI, Docker and docs

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

NiceShot AI – The analytics layer competitive games forgot to add

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Call centres using AI to 'whiten' Indian accents (2025)

tech.yahoo.com · 7 points · 4 comments

Meghan O'Gieblyn: Against Slop

nybooks.com · 6 points · 1 comments

How to Keep Thinking

seangoedecke.com · 7 points · 0 comments

Antirez/h3.c: MiniMax H3 inference engine for Mac computers

github.com · 82 points · 7 comments

Insidedb, an interactive, animated explainer of database internals

david-g-3654.github.io · 5 points · 0 comments

The UK's War on Anonymity Has Come to America

effort.news · 266 points · 177 comments

Opencodex, a free open-source coding agent for VSCode

github.com · 6 points · 1 comments

Pyrig – A tool that automates project setup and maintenance

github.com · 6 points · 2 comments

The Surveillance Network Tracking Cars Across the U.S.

nytimes.com · 39 points · 4 comments

AI Pulse a fake LED strip beside the macOS Dock that shows agent status

github.com · 18 points · 12 comments

Calldiff – a CLI to see callstack diffs in all major languages

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Keen Code – an agentic-engineered coding agent

github.com · 6 points · 5 comments

My local climbing gym from photogrammetry

kmcheung12.github.io · 29 points · 11 comments

Graph2agent; Mermaid diagrams, explained for agents

graph2agent.github.io · 7 points · 1 comments

Turn a flatbed scanner into a photometric-stereo material scanner

github.com · 6 points · 0 comments

Following Epic loss, Google hosts rival app stores in the Play Store

arstechnica.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Eigendrum - Draw any shape and hear what it sounds like as a drum

baselashraf81.github.io · 16 points · 4 comments

Exploiting System Management Mode with a very long interrupt

github.com · 92 points · 30 comments

Ante, a coding agent in a single binary that runs offline

github.com · 107 points · 67 comments

Back to the Future of Handwriting Recognition (2016)

jackschaedler.github.io · 25 points · 7 comments

Bio Tools – install drug design tools easily

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Slashscore, an open developer graph built from public GitHub activity

slashscore.com · 2 points · 4 comments

PrivateRedact – Offline PII redaction with a local LLM, no cloud

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

My math notes for anything that touches ML

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments