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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Global Heating Will Hit at Least 1.8 C, UN Warns, with "No Good Outcomes"

motherjones.com · 5 points · 2 comments

A gravity simulator where forces propagate at the speed of light

github.com · 6 points · 0 comments

WiringPi 3.20 – Updated GPIO Library for Raspberry Pi

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Ensemble Prover - Open-Source Python Autonomous Theorem Prover

github.com · 2 points · 1 comments

Texas Data Center Map: See where data centers are operating or planned

kxan.com · 34 points · 30 comments

Elevated errors across ChatGPT and Codex

status.openai.com · 17 points · 2 comments

Codex outage

github.com · 102 points · 1 comments

Instantly get the transcript from the agent that wrote any line of code

github.com · 5 points · 1 comments

VT Code – My attempt at building a coding-agent harness

github.com · 3 points · 1 comments

A benchmark for flight search intent

fjmatrix.github.io · 5 points · 0 comments

Triplox, a distributed Datalog engine with incremental queries

github.com · 3 points · 2 comments

Balrogg: Demonically compacting (up to 15%) lossless Vorbis/Opus recompressor

github.com · 24 points · 1 comments

Royalty free UI avatars for Figma/React

radianui.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Openvurp – A wallet of AI agents that use tools and consult each other

github.com · 3 points · 1 comments

MrEditor – a Mac editor that opens a 10 GB log in 100ms and edits it

github.com · 5 points · 0 comments

I made text selection on macOS programmable

github.com · 4 points · 4 comments

Rendered Markdown with source revealed at point in Emacs 31

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Audacity 4.0

github.com · 855 points · 192 comments

Japan halves speed limit to 30km/h on all narrow city streets

theguardian.com · 52 points · 33 comments

GPS Glitched Across US by as Much as 33 Feet. Scientists Have Never Seen Before

sciencealert.com · 5 points · 0 comments

US judge blocks Trump's newest order limiting birthright citizenship

reuters.com · 6 points · 0 comments

Open source ML programming language playground

sw-ml-study.github.io · 3 points · 0 comments

Nango (YC W23) is hiring across eng, product and GTM (SF and remote)

nango.dev · 1 points · 0 comments

I rented a car, and within hours my driver's license was for sale

arstechnica.com · 22 points · 3 comments

Z: Local-first search layer for humans and agents

github.com · 8 points · 2 comments

Fable 5.1 World Modeling

github.com · 118 points · 42 comments

Cinderella – value a half-finished GitHub repo

cinderella.fyi · 2 points · 0 comments

Eyeprolog: Turning Prolog programs into answers and inspectable proofs

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Shein's Unhappy IPO

ft.com · 5 points · 2 comments

CFTC moots rules to stop prediction markets from giving affiliates advantages [pdf]

govinfo.gov · 9 points · 1 comments