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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Termdom: Build terminal apps with HTML, CSS and the DOM

github.com · 6 points · 0 comments

Illinois just told every operating system to start reporting your kid's age

itsfoss.com · 127 points · 121 comments

Mossad accicentally injected data to a French lawyer phone instead of extracting

5 points · 0 comments

OpsCart – Read-only Kubernetes triage with incident history

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Interview with Amit Patel (Red Blob Games) on Making Things

digitalseams.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Archive of Animal Photography Reveals 18,000 Species and Counting

smithsonianmag.com · 41 points · 9 comments

Aidress – LangChain integration for cross-agent discovery and trust

docs.langchain.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Tura – Build agent that uses 80% less token and delivers better results

github.com · 13 points · 0 comments

Faaah – Filesystem as an AI Handler

github.com · 5 points · 2 comments

VD – TUI Password Manager and OTP Authenticator for Unix

github.com · 7 points · 3 comments

ExpertCache – Run the Full GPT-OSS 120B (63GB) on a 16GB M1 Pro

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

AI Settles a 25 Year-Old Problem We Left Behind

twitter.com · 15 points · 0 comments

Tunnel Whisperer – Surgical port forwarding over HTTPS for hostile firewalls

github.com · 5 points · 0 comments

Signal can easily work across multiple Android devices and iPhones now

theverge.com · 14 points · 4 comments

Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse

eclipsefan.org · 99 points · 21 comments

ACM Europe Summer School on MLIR 2026: Streamed Live, August 10-14

mlir-school.github.io · 12 points · 0 comments

The German Mittelstand

kieranvelasquez.substack.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Algebruh - Cross-check arithmetic claims with Z3, cvc5, and Lean

github.com · 14 points · 2 comments

Clippy for macOS – retro floating paperclip with computer use

github.com · 9 points · 2 comments

Jolt: Clojure compiler implemented with Chez Scheme

jolt-lang.github.io · 147 points · 54 comments

A Discord bot running in a 4MiB microVM

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

LinkedIn Feed Blocker

github.com · 163 points · 98 comments

49IDE – 2D Grid IDE for managing many agents, Git trees, issues

github.com · 11 points · 1 comments

Message your other Claude Code sessions

code.claude.com · 62 points · 32 comments

Steve Yegge's Google Platform rant (2011)

gist.github.com · 6 points · 2 comments

Voyager 1 FDS Computer Emulator

zaneham.github.io · 92 points · 17 comments

Compactdiff – see what compaction dropped from an agent session

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Presse – a Rust CLI tool to compress and merge PDFs

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs

github.com · 53 points · 10 comments

Mythos social engineering AISI INC-2026-07-28-01

web.archive.org · 31 points · 13 comments