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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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github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

RØØT – Offline security workspace for labs, CVEs, and tooling

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Private Data in ATProto: Permissioned Data Proposal

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Functional replacement for the Toshiba TA7357P sync separator IC

github.com · 6 points · 0 comments

Doubt – Source-grounded evidence maps for AI research

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Neural_tilde – Run neural amplifier captures in Max and Ableton Live

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Colorimeter 3nh CR4501 RAL Hack

github.com · 5 points · 0 comments

Exact, parallel 2D Delaunay triangulation for int32 coordinates

github.com · 18 points · 1 comments

The Empty Field That Wasn't: GPS, OTAD and Two Decades of Encrypted Broadcasts

sjmurdoch.github.io · 10 points · 0 comments

A local memory of all you have seen, said or heard while you work

github.com · 6 points · 9 comments

Algorithms on billion-scale graph using 10GB RAM: I love DataFusion

semyonsinchenko.github.io · 133 points · 39 comments

New Defcon Badges Pack a Unique Open-Source Chip That Doubles as a Security Key

wired.com · 67 points · 11 comments

GeoEQ, a Python package for civil/geotechnical engineering

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

The Loss of Situational Awareness

theverge.com · 6 points · 0 comments

Proof of Impossibility

en.wikipedia.org · 4 points · 0 comments

Axioma – Stream and data compression engine for low-bandwidth links

github.com · 2 points · 1 comments

I built a cross-browser extension that controls fingerprinting surfaces

privacything.com · 19 points · 10 comments

Spryly – Track outdated dependencies across every repo and registry

spryly.io · 2 points · 0 comments

A little physical breakout clone

brontosaurusrex.github.io · 19 points · 15 comments

BitBang – Reach machines behind NAT from a browser, no account

github.com · 39 points · 8 comments

Bypassing Claude's upload limits, 4x (500 MB → 2 GB)

blog.zernote.com · 12 points · 2 comments

I built a tool that reviews any GitHub PR and quizzes you on it

makesensegithub.com · 6 points · 2 comments

Tandem – one session across Claude Code and Codex, no double spend

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Run manual QA test cases in a real browser with an AI agent

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Run Kimi K3 using 29 GB of RAM at 0.50 tok/s

github.com · 44 points · 15 comments

The physics of Docker build caching

blacksmith.sh · 16 points · 3 comments

OpenQ4 0.9.0: open-source reimplementation of Quake 4

github.com · 11 points · 0 comments

Emacs user are you waiting for mg to get UTF-8?

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Why is it all in the kernel?

lawrencecpaulson.github.io · 87 points · 39 comments

Pac Maps

profrino.github.io · 4 points · 0 comments