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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Tamron Lens Utility Alternative on Linux

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Oans – fast deduplication for btrfs and XFS

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Lefts – a domain specific language for building creative ML models

nsmat.github.io · 6 points · 0 comments

Wyzer Programming Language

github.com · 145 points · 83 comments

Rodeo – a robot that earns its own electricity

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS

textlog.cc · 29 points · 1 comments

CrossPoint 1.5 has officially been released

reddit.com · 10 points · 0 comments

File-based HTTP endpoints for Python with its own isolated dependencies

github.com · 4 points · 1 comments

Agent Reach: An open-source CLI that gives AI agents access to the internet

github.com · 4 points · 3 comments

Certo – An open source platform to deliver Open Badges

github.com · 16 points · 0 comments

posix-regex – POSIX standard regex engine for JavaScript

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Remembrane – agent memory in one SQLite file, zero dependencies

github.com · 11 points · 0 comments

The German Mittelstand

kieranvelasquez.substack.com · 6 points · 0 comments

Mythos Attempted to Social Engineer Open Source Maintainer to Merge Malware

socket.dev · 59 points · 38 comments

Open-source pixel art editor with animation and auto-tiling tilesets

simplepixelart.com · 8 points · 2 comments

OpenDoctrines, open source grand strategy game moddable via WASM in 13 languages

github.com · 6 points · 0 comments

What an improv stage can teach you about leading cross-cultural teams in Tokyo

tokyodev.com · 54 points · 11 comments

Trump again tries to limit US birthright citizenship with new executive orders

bbc.com · 51 points · 22 comments

I rewrote Decap CMS with < $1K in Claude tokens

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Google repository now has 90 skills

github.com · 5 points · 0 comments

Pokémon Emerald Ported to Raspberry Pi Pico 2

github.com · 40 points · 20 comments

OpenAI's latest math breakthroughs commit research misconduct, experts say

scientificamerican.com · 31 points · 12 comments

Open QEC harness – greedy vs. GE, uniform vs. clustered k=4

github.com · 8 points · 0 comments

Ask GitHub SRE: How serious is the situation there?

19 points · 4 comments

I built a Calendr clone for KDE Plasma

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Federal Communications Commission scraps limit on broadcast TV ownership

nbcnews.com · 42 points · 32 comments

Find stale, orphaned, deleted-but-retrievable RAG vectors

github.com · 6 points · 0 comments

Trump FCC kills TV ownership cap, claiming authority over limit set by Congress

arstechnica.com · 18 points · 1 comments

A handful of cities have replaced Flock with Axon

404media.co · 92 points · 41 comments

Mnemosyne – Export AI chat to carry context from one tool into another

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments