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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Asia Hedge Funds Suffer Widespread Losses in July Market Rout

bloomberg.com · 9 points · 0 comments

SIMD Viterbi Decoder in Rust

github.com · 24 points · 1 comments

Missouri Is Latest State to Vote on Abolishing Income Tax

wsj.com · 4 points · 1 comments

Pleasantries

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Sign language translation with smart glasses

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

All-in-one gamedev toolkit for indie creators

reactorcoregames.github.io · 3 points · 0 comments

Yanes, yet another NES audio plugin:LinuxCLAP polyphonic chiptune synth

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Mcpscore – validate any MCP server compliance with a new MCP version

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Watchfire, an open-source control room for AI coding agents

github.com · 3 points · 2 comments

I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel

twitter.com · 183 points · 96 comments

Hardware-software co-design for MoE models to bypass NCCL bottlenecks

github.com · 3 points · 1 comments

Jargo, Voice AI for Golang

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

It's a Plan – a self-hosted, open-source alternative to Linear

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

A new study of a bot running a store finds it is friendly but not very smart

nytimes.com · 61 points · 75 comments

AI Escape Room – Docker CTF Recreating the 2026 HF Intrusion

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

SindriCAD – open-source parametric CAD for Linux, Windows and macOS

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Design by Contract and Effects for LLMs

gavinray97.github.io · 3 points · 1 comments

New unlimited use coding agent (Standard Code)

standardcode.ai · 4 points · 0 comments

Single Reference to 3100 APIs

github.com · 4 points · 2 comments

cMCP, deny an AI agent's tool call and get a signed receipt

github.com · 9 points · 3 comments

Terminal stock dashboard in Rust with SEC Form 4 insider trades

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Data center approvals in Texas halted until audits completed, says governor

texastribune.org · 12 points · 3 comments

Give your agents a personal internet based on what you've surfed

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

The IPv6 Private Network Trap: Why Fd00:/8 Is Not 192.168.x.x

mabels.github.io · 4 points · 0 comments

OldHand A Claude/Codex plugin to verify the development flow end-to-end

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

SIEMatic, a fair-sourced observability and security platform

github.com · 6 points · 4 comments

I Repurposed Unit Tests to Show How Much Coding Agents "Improvise"

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

FastStrapy – A create-next-app-inspired CLI for FastAPI

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

MariaDB: Promote getting to 10k GitHub stars in server log and client prompt

github.com · 42 points · 18 comments

Diamond industry misjudged threat of lab-grown gems, says Anglo American CEO

ft.com · 13 points · 3 comments