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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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Cross-compilation with Wails (2025)

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