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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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

The Hat and the Spectre – Recent Groundbreaking Discoveries in Mathematics

momath.org · 26 points · 3 comments

Modern C++ Build Tools for Module Feature

github.com · 5 points · 0 comments

CrossPlay - Games, puzzles and tools for your e-reader

crossplay.ma-r-s.com · 5 points · 0 comments

Working on Economics with Fable 5

wilsoniumite.com · 6 points · 0 comments

Zaivern Code – a Rust cockpit for parallel AI coding agents

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Gödel and Turing outlined the limits of AI

heise.de · 5 points · 0 comments

Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering (2015)

github.com · 40 points · 2 comments

Assembly Hall of Shame

github.com · 226 points · 48 comments

Mousecrack – Teaching an LSTM to move a mouse like a human

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

U.S. Intel Finds Putin Could Test NATO's Resolve with Limited Incursion

wsj.com · 20 points · 1 comments

Publishing Schematics Before “Open Source” Was a Word

fabscene.medium.com · 117 points · 30 comments

Möbius-Strip Crosswords

quuxplusone.github.io · 81 points · 11 comments

Halcyon Video – a 3D video store for your media server

github.com · 72 points · 17 comments

S-Bahn Seat Picker

welidev.github.io · 7 points · 4 comments

Alibaba plans to charge big users of its next open-source AI model

reuters.com · 12 points · 2 comments

U.S. Lost 23,000 Jobs in July, While Unemployment Ticked Lower

wsj.com · 72 points · 3 comments