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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Popkorn – A CSS based alternative for Lottie animations

github.com · 2 points · 2 comments

CCo – Go-style coroutines in C

github.com · 5 points · 2 comments

TokenMaxxer – track every AI token you spend across your coding tools

tokenmaxxer.xyz · 5 points · 0 comments

Decimen Optical Transfer: fountain-coded QR file transfer

github.com · 45 points · 40 comments

ModelFuzz – Open-source runtime guardrails for AI agents

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Lunar, a "fast", memory-efficient Lua 5.1 VM written in Go

github.com · 7 points · 2 comments

Devtools must be open source

blog.exe.dev · 203 points · 67 comments

Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time

intellinews.com · 101 points · 34 comments

An open-source solar vehicle

reddit.com · 9 points · 0 comments

Runthru – open-source Interactive Demos

github.com · 5 points · 0 comments

AirLLM 70B inference with single 4GB GPU

github.com · 63 points · 29 comments

SubTrends – stats and trends across 100k subreddits

subtrends.io · 6 points · 0 comments

Nightcrawler – A local AI pentesting agent running on a smartphone

github.com · 113 points · 32 comments

A MicroVM Launcher for BSD and Linux Guests on macOS/Linux (libkrun)

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

TermBoard – A TUI dashboard for Python projects

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

PISIGuard: Protect your personal and sensitive info when you chat with AI

github.com · 12 points · 8 comments

SaaS payment integration in ~10 lines of code

github.com · 7 points · 5 comments

Hacker News CLI

github.com · 3 points · 2 comments

Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library

github.com · 23 points · 2 comments

New open sourced eval tool for building agents

2 points · 2 comments

Rust project goals: Immobile types and guaranteed destructors

github.com · 56 points · 14 comments

Changed how I use agent harnesses

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone [3TW]

bloomberg.com · 8 points · 3 comments

Return-to-office mandates are killing workplace trust

thehill.com · 4 points · 2 comments

Kwayk – Reimplementing Quake in Qt Quick3D with Jolt Physics

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Servitor (Simple way to run local dev containers)

github.com · 5 points · 0 comments

Datalog Disassembly

github.com · 67 points · 6 comments

An AI wrote and illustrated a book of fables about threads and packets

booyaka101.github.io · 6 points · 1 comments

An update to the random OS (windogeOS)

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

swsql – A PostgreSQL client for the terminal, written in Swift

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments