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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Pac Maps

profrino.github.io · 4 points · 0 comments

Learn how chips are made with this Rollercoaster Tycoon-inspired animation

laurentiugabriel.github.io · 5 points · 0 comments

Tileroot – save/restore tiling WM layouts (sway, Hyprland, i3)

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Gander, an Android file viewer that asks for no permissions

github.com · 206 points · 74 comments

Aschenbrenner's hedge fund forced to unwind all public stock positions

cnbc.com · 13 points · 2 comments

JEP 401: Value Objects (Preview) merged to OpenJDK master

github.com · 236 points · 167 comments

The fastest JSON parser for Go

github.com · 7 points · 1 comments

An AI skill for filtering and reading Hacker Newsletter and others

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

A California aquifer may have crossed the point of no return

science.org · 178 points · 165 comments

[Target: Calamity] A visualization of how long we have to change course

targetcalamity.org · 3 points · 2 comments

Vale CLI: Linter for Prose

github.com · 4 points · 1 comments

ResiliReplay - Chaos testing for AI agents and MCP servers

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Widen – Open-source Mac Postgres GUI with local or cloud text-to-SQL

widen.dev · 7 points · 0 comments

Play SNES, gba, in your terminal, even in tmux

github.com · 6 points · 0 comments

Izzy: 'Google abuses "SafeSearch" to flag our fdroid-mirror as "malicious"'

floss.social · 25 points · 2 comments

Panini – bundle a Gleam app and BEAM into one self-contained binary

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Collie – a local AI harness that runs the browser, desktop and code

github.com · 3 points · 1 comments

TaskView – self-hosted project management for teams

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Open source project fools AI scrapers with poisoned font

theregister.com · 6 points · 3 comments

Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English

github.com · 333 points · 119 comments

Don't use (pancakes emoji) as menu icon

github.com · 7 points · 0 comments

Mark Zuckerberg is becoming the king of the 'side quest'

ft.com · 17 points · 11 comments

I'm a senior estimator, I open sourced my construction takeoff tool

github.com · 4 points · 1 comments

Leia – a CLI to oneshot playlists onto Yoto MYO cards

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

The Zeno's Paradox of AI

negativezone.github.io · 7 points · 6 comments

A single character turns primitive recursion into general recursion

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

I made a term-a11y: accessible spinners and progress bars for CLI tools

github.com · 8 points · 1 comments

Otzar – Local hybrid search over your own files

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Distilling DeepSeek into GPT-OSS doesn't transfer censorship. Try it

ctgt.ai · 170 points · 73 comments

Noisegate – a differential-privacy gateway for untrusted AI agents

github.com · 19 points · 0 comments