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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cctap – see and reach the Claude Code session that needs you

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Çetele – Open-source notepad calculator

cetele.online · 5 points · 0 comments

Listnr – macOS meeting transcription that never mixes mic and speakers

github.com · 6 points · 0 comments

Safe Lock-free Primitives with iceoryx2's ByteAtomic

ekxide.io · 14 points · 28 comments

Paranoia – Get a cold, adversarial review of your code

github.com · 5 points · 2 comments

Learning-Rust.Github.io: Rust Programming Language Tutorials for Everyone

learning-rust.github.io · 5 points · 1 comments

Scilab: Open-source software for numerical computation

scilab.org · 5 points · 0 comments

DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X

github.com · 88 points · 18 comments

Servitor – simplest way to run local dev containers

sndsabin.github.io · 4 points · 0 comments

Homebench – Benchmark local LLMs for speed, memory, and quality

github.com · 59 points · 8 comments

Clawx – A package manager where packages are agent tasks

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

An Honest Review of AI Programming

mropert.github.io · 53 points · 81 comments

FFmpeg 9.0

github.com · 439 points · 94 comments

NHS apologises and admits Palantir have access to identifiable patient data

publictechnology.net · 106 points · 17 comments

You don't need React: creating a minimal UI library in Vanilla JavaScript

pedroth.github.io · 141 points · 114 comments

View GitHub PDFs in the browser, the easy way

pdfgithub.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Harness engineering for self-improvement

lilianweng.github.io · 311 points · 73 comments

Every plaintext HTTP request on your Linux box captured via eBPF

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

LarpIn – LinkedIn, but everyone admits they're larping, one global feed

larpin.io · 12 points · 6 comments

Texpile, an open-source desktop LaTeX editor with a visual mode

github.com · 3 points · 2 comments

Freqcast, an Android radio player that finds streams from a website URL

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Ioskeley Mono

github.com · 38 points · 16 comments

Svelte-rs – a Svelte compiler in Rust

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Online Safety Act – Call for Evidence

committees.parliament.uk · 6 points · 1 comments

The Dunning-Kruger effect may just be a data artefact (2020)

mcgill.ca · 140 points · 154 comments

KisakCOD – Open-source reimplementation of Call of Duty 4 Multiplayer

github.com · 60 points · 8 comments

Java MultiTool – How I Replaced 6 browser tabs with a Single Program

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit with the First New C-Kermit Release in 15 Years

changelog.complete.org · 181 points · 51 comments

Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone

github.com · 63 points · 19 comments

SearXNG in Rust

github.com · 73 points · 23 comments