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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chriswheeler.dev · 12 points · 2 comments
Capy – A Git-style platform for managing your team's secrets
github.com · 4 points · 2 comments
My receipt printer prints an original artwork every morning
github.com · 9 points · 4 comments
Greenlight – Preflight Scanner for App Store and Google Play
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Apps for Kobo
github.com · 3 points · 0 comments
AI agents gives its worst answers when you're overwhelmed
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Lucidos, a local AI OS that keeps the apps you describe running
github.com · 3 points · 1 comments
BoundaryBench – benchmarking coding agents under real sandbox policy
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
PON-BEAM re-architecture of the Erlang VM
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
ExANS – Lossless KV cache compression at 622 GB/s on H100
theopenlake.com · 14 points · 0 comments
I'm Scared a Stranger Will Call My Novel AI, So I Built GitHub for Words
dylan.blog · 18 points · 54 comments
T – Conductor, but for Your CLI
github.com · 3 points · 0 comments
Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects
github.com · 39 points · 1 comments
The Ultimate Horse: Selective Breeding Has Gone to the Limits of Biology
worksinprogress.co · 3 points · 0 comments
OpenEdit – fast, open Source video editing agent
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
I made alchemical-cosmological PCB badges
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Shadow Blocker Blocklist – DNS blocklist from per-platform research
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Everfree -AI cowriter note app on GitHub backend & Evernote migration
everfree.vercel.app · 2 points · 0 comments
At 45-Years-Old, C-Kermit Gets Its First New Release in 15 Years
fossforce.com · 5 points · 1 comments
Tiny Black Holes May Be Exploding Stars Across the Milky Way
sciencedaily.com · 55 points · 70 comments
DotDoctor – Interactive CLI tool to diagnose dev env and update system
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
HUD, an open-source minimal terminal UI for ClaudeCode, Codex, OpenCode
github.com · 6 points · 1 comments
Committing to Creativity
herman.bearblog.dev · 3 points · 0 comments
Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search
404media.co · 291 points · 172 comments
HimitsuShell – Shell scripts invisible even to kernel tracing
github.com · 3 points · 0 comments
We built an open USB-C Power Delivery analyzer and programmable sink
github.com · 6 points · 0 comments
LLM control of deterministic coder – Sif 1.0 – LLMs as vibe coders
github.com · 4 points · 6 comments
Kotro – local control plane for coding agents
github.com · 4 points · 0 comments
Offline 180.9M-parameter LLM and Agent inference on ESP32-P4
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Oracle cut its Always Free ARM limits to 2 OCPU / 12GB, enforced Aug 18
cnelecar.com · 142 points · 98 comments