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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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Itadakimasu: A word you say to the food, not the cook

thetokyohermit.substack.com · 96 points · 52 comments

filebouncer - npm package for detecting suspicious uploads.

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Self-hosted universal context layer for Mac

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

FlyPath: QGIS plugin for planning drone mapping missions

github.com · 5 points · 0 comments

Crown 0.64 – Native and cross-platform game engine

crownengine.org · 6 points · 4 comments

DocSift convert a PDF once, give the model only the passages it needs

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Self-Hosted Inference for Agents

github.com · 8 points · 4 comments

100% native Swift harness (NOT Electron)

github.com · 15 points · 5 comments

Hawser – sign, notarize, DMG, auto-update and license a Mac app

hawserkit.com · 3 points · 0 comments

LLM Rewrite of the TerminalTextEffects Python

github.com · 7 points · 2 comments

gbx -- manage a fleet of git repos with a TUI

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Visual editor for React – Two-way is not the same as symmetric

blog.crossui.com · 5 points · 1 comments

Mangudai – Agentless attack surface manager for small tech teams

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

An open-source multi-tenant, AI-native software factory

github.com · 2 points · 1 comments

EU Study: Block Live Sports Piracy in 30 Minutes

torrentfreak.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Issue Apple and Google wallet passes from Node.js

github.com · 5 points · 0 comments

OptiQra – Open-source AI website optimization and intelligence platform

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Prime Agent: A Self-Improving RLM Agent

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

TBD: a native, minimalist macOS front end for yt-dlp

github.com · 5 points · 2 comments

OpenHaystack: Reverse-engineered Apple's Find My network

github.com · 6 points · 0 comments

Memcode AI goes open source with Claude Code inspired coding agent

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Blueferry, iMessage on Linux

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Run Android ARM64 VR APKs on Apple Vision Pro

github.com · 162 points · 56 comments

Weather balloon to the stratosphere with a Raspberry Pi computer

github.com · 7 points · 0 comments

Blender MCP maintainer GitHub account hacked

twitter.com · 13 points · 1 comments

Discord-delete – Delete all your Discord messages from your data export

github.com · 4 points · 1 comments

Albedo – single-file listenable document database in Zig

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Lumabri – What if LLMs worked like Napster?

github.com · 8 points · 10 comments

Wardline, a Go proxy that auto-blocks compromised AI agents

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Mandible TUI – rust based CLI manual viewer

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments